Senior Manager Military Programs Flight Test Safety

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Boeing Test & Evaluation (BT&E) is seeking an exceptionally qualified and highly motivated Senior Manager Military Programs Flight Test Safety in Berkeley, MO;
Edwards AFB, CA;
Seattle, WA; or Patuxent River, MD
. This senior manager will lead and mentor a high-performing team of Aviation Safety Officials while focusing on evolving and improving Safety Management Systems (SMS) processes within BT&E’s military test programs.

• Support development and management of the Boeing Test & Evaluation Safety Management System (SMS).
• Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure system health.
• Promote, conduct, plan, and manage Safety Assurance activities, including audits.
• Conduct and support safety promotion efforts.
• Investigate safety reports to implement proactive and reactive risk mitigation.
• Measure and promote a positive safety culture.
• Share data with business partners to improve enterprise safety.
• Conduct audits and use data for continual process improvement.
• Engage with industry partners to utilize best practices.
• Develop and manage safety requirements early in design and throughout the test life cycle, emphasizing test operations.
• Perform safety engineering activities to support ground and flight test preparation, including development of Flight Test Plans (FTPs) with a focus on Test Hazard Analyses (THAs) and mitigation plans, and review test procedures.
• Lead Safety Risk Management (SRM) activities and Safety Action Groups (SAGs).
• Provide safety assurance through interface with safety data analysts, Quality Assurance (QA), and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) counterparts.
• Support flight and ground test operations safety during testing, including pre‑test briefs, debriefs, and after‑action reviews.
• Review engineering designs, test operations, change proposals, deficiency reports, and deviation/waiver requests for potential flight test safety impacts.
• Conduct periodic safety assessments per DCMA 8210 and Enterprise SMS.
• Lead and participate in incident investigations and root‑cause/corrective‑action analyses.
• Lead and facilitate aircraft impound investigations.
• Prepare presentations, analyses, and reports for government/customer safety boards, program design reviews, and test/mission readiness reviews.
• Deliver oral and written presentations to peers, program management, senior leadership, customers, and regulatory agencies.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will work onsite at one of the listed locations.

• Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required); a clearance active in the past 24 months is considered active.
• Ability to obtain U.S. Government program access (U.S. Citizenship required).
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or a non‑U.S. equivalent directly related to the role.
• 5+ years of experience with test hazard/risk identification and mitigation plans.
• 7+ years of technical experience in aviation safety, systems safety analysis, safety management systems, ground test, flight test, aviation operations, or test hazard analysis in a commercial and/or military environment.
• Capable of traveling up to 30% of the time.

• 10+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Existing Special Access Program (SAP) clearance in Air Dominance.
• 7+ years of flight and/or ground test experience.
• Prior Test Conductor (TC) or Test Director (TD) experience.
• Prior Aviation Safety Officer (ASO) or Aviation Safety Investigator (ASI) experience.
• Experience with DCMA instruction 8210.1 and contractor flight and ground operations.
• Experience in Safety Management Systems training (ICAO Annex 19, FAA 14 CFR Part 5, AC 120‑92D).
• Experience with various aircraft systems, flight test operations, test safety, aviation safety…