Safety & Assurance Manager

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. We also provide a wide range of commercial products and solutions internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

Salary: £72,094.66 - £96,126.21

Closing Date: 28/09/2026

To deliver the safety and assurance activities to support the successful implementation of changes into service.

As a safety leader, ensure compliance with the NATS Safety Policy such that the accountable roles have the required confidence that the change can be implemented and operated safely.

• Is responsible for the generation and preparation of the Safety & Assurance plans, arguments and collating the evidence for the Change Assurance documentation covering the Safety Management and Business Continuity / Service Resilience assurance and risks. This includes the contributions from Systems / Software Assurance, Human Factors and Cyber Security. Resulting in changes being implemented with the required safety assurance.
• Adopt a pro-active approach to ensure that any issues affecting the safety, business continuity, human performance and cyber security of NATS services or its interfaces are identified and resolved.
• Lead workshops with Subject Matter Experts to identify safety hazards and the elicitation of mitigating, functional and non-functional requirements that together form the safety & assurance requirements for a project change.
• Ensuring the assurance activities for allocated projects comply with the NATS Business and Safety Management Systems as required.
• Ensure all standards of work conform to best practice and are proportionate to the level of risk.
• Providing assurance support to Service Design Managers, System Engineering Managers, ATC Leads, Design Authorities, Programme & Project Managers, Senior Leadership teams and Architects within a major project/Programme, to influence the service/system/airspace design and the implementation of design changes to satisfy derived requirements (as required).

• The post holders have the authority to manage assigned assurance resources against agreed and prioritised objectives for assigned programmes and projects.
• The post holders will routinely refer to their line manager for guidance on high-risk assurance issues and large resource/time commitments.

Assurance Documentation (both Those For Existing Operations And New Project Change Assurance) Including Operational Safety And Technical Assurance Documents Are Key To Enabling NATS And Regulatory Acceptance And Approvals To Be Achieved. It Is The Job Holder’s Responsibility To Ensure That The Assurance Documents Achieve These Goals;
The Scope Of The Job Encompasses

• Working with the relevant stakeholders to define the Assurance Requirements for the change, resulting in requirements for Safety, Integrity, Software Assurance, Human Factors, Training, Business Continuity / Resilience and Security.
• Developing the assurance arguments that are reasonable, proportionate, well-constructed and as such provide the required level of confidence for the Programme and Project change. Creating the assurance documentation, supported by the evidence, to address the derived requirements.
• Responsibility for ensuring that the safety assurance documentation for the allocated projects are delivered to time, quality and cost.
• As required, manage and develop any allocated assurance team members as required.

• The job holder is expected to hold, as a minimum, a degree in a STEM or assurance‐related discipline or have equivalent…