Manager, Occupational Safety and Human Factors

Endeavor Air is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines. Flying as Delta Connection, Endeavor operates 145 regional jets on 800 daily flights to 122 destinations in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., Endeavor has hub operations in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, and Raleigh-Durham, and 11 maintenance bases across our network.

We know that our people are our greatest assets, and we are committed to building a culture where employees love coming to work each day. At Endeavor Air, we foster a diverse, culturally-rich and safe workplace where employees are treated with dignity and respect. With a culture built on safety, excellence, and teamwork, Endeavor offers limitless potential for aviation professionals looking to start or continue their careers.

Our team promotes an inclusive environment in all aspects of the airline and our operation. As an EEO employer, we provide opportunities for all qualified candidates without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran, or disabled status.

The Manager, Occupational Safety and Human Factors leads Endeavor Air’s occupational safety, human factors, health, and environmental programs across airline operations. This role develops policies, risk controls, training, assurance activities, and improvement initiatives to prevent injuries, reduce human-performance risk, improve work design, and ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, FDA, and applicable federal, state, and local requirements. Serving as a subject matter expert, the Manager partners across all departments to identify hazards, assess risk, support investigations, implement practical controls, and monitor corrective-action effectiveness as part of Endeavor Air’s Safety Management System (SMS).

• Establish and maintain an enterprise Human Factors and Human Performance framework integrated with Endeavor Air’s Safety Management System, considering interactions among people, tasks, tools, technology, procedures, staffing, organizational conditions, and the operating environment.
• Evaluate physical, cognitive, environmental, and organizational influences on performance—including workload, fatigue, distraction, communication, procedural complexity, staffing, interface design, and workplace layout—and conduct ergonomic assessments of work tasks and office setups.
• Partner with operational and training departments to incorporate Human Factors principles into job and task design, procedures, checklists, equipment, technology, work spaces, training, management-of-change reviews, and fatigue-risk and fitness-for-duty controls.
• Develop, administer, and standardize company-wide occupational safety, health, and environmental policies, programs, procedures, and training to meet regulatory requirements and operational needs.
• Serve as the primary company contact for federal and state OSHA compliance; coordinate responses to agency inquiries, investigations, and citations with Safety and Regulatory Compliance management.
• Lead occupational health, safety, and environmental audits, inspections, observations, and risk assessments across Endeavor Air facilities; use employee input, investigations, and Safety Participation Programs to identify hazards and recommend effective controls.
• Review OJI reports and support occupational injury, aircraft accident, incident, operational-event, and regulatory investigations, distinguishing individual actions from systemic, organizational, environmental, task, training, and design contributors and verifying corrective-action effectiveness.
• Analyze injury, hazard-reporting, investigation, audit, fatigue,…