Aviation Safety Manager (Aerospace)

Location: Brisbane, Australia; regular travel between Australian operating sites and, when required, deployed locations. The role requires Australian citizenship, eligibility for AGSVA Security Clearance, and compliance with customer, site-access, background-check and export-control requirements.

Company

hirify.global delivers effects-as-a-service and turnkey capabilities for national security partners across aerospace, electromagnetic and cyber, and digital and synthetic mission areas.

What you will do

• Perform the Safety Manager responsibilities under CASR Part 138 and operate, maintain and continually improve the aviation Safety Management System.
• Advise the Accountable Manager and senior leaders on aviation safety risk, regulatory obligations, safety performance, emerging issues and SMS resources.
• Maintain occurrence reporting, hazard identification, risk assessment and mitigation processes while promoting a just culture and organisational learning.
• Lead or coordinate aviation safety investigations, corrective actions, assurance activities, safety reviews, inspections and critical-control monitoring.
• Establish safety performance indicators and targets, analyse events and operational data, and report on SMS effectiveness.
• Coordinate safety training, emergency-response exercises, management-of-change assessments, CASA interfaces, regulatory applications, surveillance and notifications.

Requirements

• Sufficient experience carrying out air operations or managing personnel who carry out air operations to meet CASR 138.110 and support the nature and complexity of the Australian operations.
• Sufficient safety management experience to lead, manage and set standards for SMS implementation in accordance with the operations manual.
• A satisfactory record in conducting or managing air operations, together with the integrity, judgement and independence required of regulatory key personnel.
• Sufficient knowledge of Australian civil aviation legislation and aviation safety for safe, compliant Part 138 aerial work operations.
• Demonstrated competence in aviation SMS principles, including safety policy and objectives, risk management, safety assurance, management of change, safety promotion and emergency-response coordination.
• Experience with occurrence reporting, aviation investigations, root-cause and contributing-factor analysis, corrective actions and safety-performance monitoring.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, including advising and challenging senior leaders, engaging operational personnel, and communicating complex safety matters clearly in writing and verbally.
• Ability to satisfy CASA's fit-and-proper-person assessment and demonstrate competency through relevant experience, qualifications, training and any assessment required by CASA.
• Appointment is subject to nomination to and acceptance by CASA as Safety Manager for the relevant Part 138 aerial work certificate, including evidence of competency and any CASA-directed interview, examination, course or assessment.
• Must remain able to satisfy fit-and-proper-person requirements and complete required familiarisation training before carrying out regulatory responsibilities.
• Australian citizenship, ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA Security Clearance, and compliance with applicable customer, site-access, background-check and export-control requirements.
• Current driver's licence and ability to travel regularly between Australian operating sites and deployed locations when required.

Nice to have

• Degree or recognised vocational qualification in aviation safety, aviation management, human factors, risk management or a related field.
• Formal training in safety management systems, aviation occurrence investigation, human factors, risk management or safety auditing.
• Previous experience as an accepted or nominated Safety Manager, or comparable key person, in a CASA-regulated Part 138, Part 119 or similarly complex aviation organisation.
• Experience in special-mission, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, defence, government-contract, deployed or geographically dispersed aviation operations.
• Operational aviation experience as aircrew, maintenance personnel or an aviation operations manager, plus familiarity with digital safety-reporting and analysis systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-moving, intellectually demanding national-security environment with responsibility for complex aviation operations.
• Collaborative, open and learning-oriented culture supported by humility, systematic thinking, discernment and entrepreneurial behaviour.
• Private health insurance, income protection insurance, life and TPD insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Generous annual leave, paid parental leave and an annual incentive plan.
• Novated car leasing.