Description
Qualifications:
Introduction:
Boeing Defence UK is offering the opportunity to provide technical leadership of the BDUK Safety Management System and SMS Team of circa 20 experienced staff. This role will suit someone with a deep but broad area of SMS expertise who enjoys working in a passionate team with a strong drive to improve in an ever-evolving business. The role will involve developing core technical skills within the team and mentoring members of the SMS team. The location of this role can be flexible and we can consider various locations including: Middle Wallop, Bristol, Gosport, Frimley, Yeovil & Odiham
The role:
You will support the BDUK P&SS Senior Manager in representing the SMS team at a senior leadership level within Boeing Defence UK and also at senior levels across The Boeing Company including influencing the Boeing Enterprise SMS. The successful individual will act as the Technical Lead for the team and form part of the BDUK Products and Services Safety leadership team. BDUK is looking for someone with drive and enthusiasm to take on this senior level technical safety leadership role to lead SMS planning, implementation and operation across the business for a variety of aviation and non-aviation products and services. These include maintenance, design, engineering support, software and training solutions.
Reporting to the Senior Manager for P&SS and working closely with the SMS team manager and SMS leads, you will oversee the assurance and risk management strategies across all BDUK sites and programmes. You will work closely with the SMS core team leads and the SMS teams deployed into programmes to ensure technical outputs are maintained at a high standard. Your role will provide oversight of products such as safety investigations, complex risk analysis papers, risk assessments, bowties, software heatmaps and trending including training designs on those core skills and Just Culture.
Responsibilities:
1. Leading the BDUK SMS planning and operation Oversee the continued development of the BDUK Safety Assurance Strategy and Safety metrics/Intelligence Dashboard Development of the SMS continuous improvement plan Evolution of the Centrik Safety and Risk software Act as the Technical Lead Engineer for SMS within Boeing Defence UK
2. Provide review and oversight of risk analysis papers
3. Oversight of safety investigations
4. Overall governance of specialist skills and competence development within the SMS team
5. Advising on Safety Matters with BDUK Senior Leadership teams and senior leadership teams across Boeing Act as the SMS focal for risk escalation, stakeholder review and briefing key leaders Support the Safety Manager in planning and facilitation of the BDUK Safety Review Board including:
6. Development of Safety Review Board presentation material and presentation to the BDUK Leadership team
7. Oversight of the maturity of multiple Safety Action Groups, and programme safety working groups Advising and oversight of SMS strategy; Working with the SMS specialist leads on their strategies in training, assurance and risk management and overseeing their progression and successes Establishing and oversight of effective interfaces with key teams within BDUK and across our suppliers and customers Represent Boeing Defence UK as a Subject Matter Expert internally and externally at industry events, forums and conferences
8. Travel within the UK is expected and some overseas travel may be required.
Personal Qualities:
9. Calm, diplomatic and able to engage and brief concepts and complex issues across the business at all levels
10. High level interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence
11. Courage and integrity to maintain safety principles in the face of appropriate challenge
12. Able to build respect and trust from peers and senior management
13. Excellent presentation and verbal briefing skills, able to talk with authority in a clear and concise manner to senior leadership with the right level of detail
14. Ability to drive improvements and strategies forward
15. Good analytical skills
Essential competencies:
16. Previous experience in a Safety Management leadership role within commercial and/or defence aviation organisation
17. Domain Experience in working in an engineering, maintenance or air environment
18. Significant previous experience in briefing senior leadership teams on safety
19. Experience in leading and facilitating effective Safety Action Groups and Safety Review Boards
20. Formal Safety Management System training
21. Detailed knowledge and understanding of civil and/or defence safety and SMS regulations, standards and legislation
22. Safety Risk management training and experience presenting safety risk information at a senior level
23. Significant risk management experience in assessing and analyzing risks
24. The candidate should possess excellent written and oral communication skills with a proven record in interacting successfully across multi-discipline teams
25. The role will have significant UK MoD customer, supplier and wider Boeing interfaces and, therefore, a person who is diplomatic whilst being strong minded is essential
26. The ability to obtain UK Security Clearance
Desirable competencies
27. Formal safety risk management training as part of an MSc. or Post Grad diploma or certificate
28. Formal safety investigation training and experience
29. Academic or industry training and/or experience in data analytics e.g. data analysis courses, statistics A level or a degree with statistical elements
30. Experience using or implementing BowTie Enterprise (previously known as BT Server) or Centrik
31. BowTie XP facilitator with significant experience in creating and maintaining BowTies using BowTie XP advanced
32. Experience as an advanced user in safety reporting and risk management tools
33. Human Factors trainer or examiner / supervisor
34. Project management and budgeting skills and experience
35. SMS Performance and compliance assessment knowledge and experience
Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.
Relocation:
No relocation available
Export Control Requirement:
Safety Sensitive:
This is not a safety sensitive position
Contingent Upon Award Program
This position is not contingent upon program award
Experience Level:
Individual Contributor - 5
Job Type:
Regular
Job Code:
6C1GI5 (604)