Aviation Safety Manager

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Airbus Helicopters, Inc. is seeking a full-time Aviation Safety Manager to join the Aviation Safety Department at our Grand Prairie, Texas site. In this exempt role, you will report directly to the Director, Safety Programs North America and lead all aspects of the aviation safety functions for the site. Your primary responsibility will be leading internal aviation safety while ensuring strict compliance with aviation safety regulations and Airbus policies.

Our Aviation Safety team is a dedicated, high-impact group of professionals focused on a singular, critical mission: ensuring the absolute safety and regulatory compliance of our site's aircraft operations, maintenance, and production environments.

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP")
• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan ("EAP") and other supplemental benefit coverages.

• Serve as the Grand Prairie, Texas site focal point for aviation safety matters and safety promotion activities.
• Collaborate with process owners of aviation production, maintenance, and flight operations to promote hazard identification and safety ownership.
• Maintain the safety reporting system, handle investigation of aviation hazards and incidents, and initiate containment and corrective action(s) as vital.
• Lead the site's Safety Risk Management activities under SMS, to include the site development plan and organizational change activities.
• Monitor and evaluate the results of implemented corrective actions, ensuring that the feedback loop and control measures are in place and working efficiently.
• Engage in continuous feedback and communication for all safety report submitters.
• Develop and review safety communications and promotional material to support the company's safety culture.
• Maintain the site's flight line safety program, to include development of policy and procedures, providing training, coordination of access control and representation to the flightline steering committee.
• Participate in Flight Test development Pre-Type Inspection Authorization meetings and Safety Review Boards to identify and mitigate flight risks.
• Represent Aviation Safety at operational departmental meetings to raise awareness to safety hazards, initiatives, and other safety information.
• Run the site's Emergency Response Plan (ERP) Everbridge Notification system.

• Collaborate in the development and implementation of AHNA's Safety Management System (SMS).
• Lead the Safety Risk Management initiatives for the site.
• Organize and facilitate the Safety Action Group (SAG) for the Grand Prairie site and where needed raise risk to the Safety Review Board (SRB).
• Responsible for the development and management of the facilities ERP for aircraft accidents.
• Facilitate Safety Risk Management activities with collaborators to identify, assess, analyze, and mitigate aviation safety risks.
• Ensure accurate and timely delivery of required safety information, including monthly and quarterly summary reports, as well as ad hoc queries. Provides weekly/monthly management reports on safety goals and objectives as required.
• Responsible for the creation, delivery and maintenance of SMS training, and ensure employees possess the competencies appropriate with their role.

• Participate and provide technical expertise regarding aviation accident investigations as requested.
• Other duties as assigned by Manager

• Possess a Bachelor's Degree in aviation, safety or a related field; or equivalent experience(4 years)
• Five (5) + years' experience in aviation safety and/or helicopter maintenance/flight operations.
• Broad knowledge of aviation safety programs, technical publications, aircraft systems, helicopter aerodynamic principles, FAA…