Safety & Compliance Manager

Safety & Compliance duties:

• Liaise with customers and vendors on quality matters
• Liaise with the regulator on safety and quality matters
• Responsible for the organization’s quality audit program
• Ensure that issues affecting quality are investigated, tracked, and monitored
• Ensure all findings are monitored and that corrective and preventive actions are completed
• Influence the business to address quality and product safety issues
• Ensure compliance with the organization’s Safety Management System
• Monitor all pertinent proactive and reactive safety reports and, where necessary, ensure appropriate support to deliver follow-up action is taken.
• Manage the certification authorities (MCA) by policies and procedures
• Ensure that Service Difficulty Reports are submitted to the regulatory authorities.
• Responsible for the monitoring and updating of the SMS database

Regulatory Compliance duties:

• Responsible to the Accountable Manager for safety
• Act as the primary liaison between the company and regulatory authorities
• Ensure that compliance documentation and certificates meet regulatory requirements and business needs
• Ensure that the quality audit plan covers all activities under the scope of approval of the organization and escalates issues that require management intervention

Health, Environment, Safety and Security duties:

• Oversee HESS compliance and ensure safety promotion & legislative requirements are met
• Monitor and oversee the Emergency Response Plan

Required Qualifications (Education, Qualifications, Certifications)

Essential

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in an operational environment
• Accredited training in aviation safety management disciplines
• Incident investigator qualification
• Lead auditor qualification
• Possess or have held professional aviation accreditations such as pilot licenses, maintenance engineer licenses, responsible person approval from an NAA
• Ability to travel internationally:
• University degree or aviation trade in a technical discipline

Skills/Experience: (Essential)

• Working knowledge of quality tools and ICAO Annex 19
• Knowledge of regulations applicable to the organization
• Experience as part of or leading an incident investigation
• Knowledge of MS Office Software
• Experience with SMS

Skills/Experience: (Desirable)

• Demonstrated experience in the rotary wing air operator environment.
• Demonstrated experience in fixed-wing or general aviation environments.
• Demonstrated experience in Health, Safety and Environmental Management

Attributes/Behaviours:

• Self-motivated and results-oriented with a focus on the delivery of safety
• Excellent listening, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to work in a rapidly evolving and dynamic environment
• Demonstrated team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to participate and deliver outcomes within a team of aviation professionals
• Demonstrated leadership and motivational skills