Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) - Defence Airworthiness

TN United Kingdom; Chippenham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a highly experienced Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) to support the MOD in ensuring safety engineering compliance. This exciting role offers the opportunity to join a growing team dedicated to providing world-class safety advisory services in the Defence sector. You will lead various engagements, manage projects, and promote safety capabilities to clients while working in a hybrid environment. With a focus on airworthiness and safety assessments, this role promises a dynamic work experience with opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Life Assurance

6% Pension Contributions

25 days annual leave

Competitive maternity cover

Cycle to work scheme

Military reservists additional annual leave

STEM ambassadors additional annual leave

Professional membership contribution

Employee referral bonus

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in safety engineering management solutions.
• Ability to manage complex safety assessments across air platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead ISA engagements ensuring timely delivery and quality.
• Manage projects and small teams to meet client needs.

Skills

Safety Engineering Management

Airworthiness Assessment

Project Management

Safety Engineering Tools

UK MOD Knowledge

Engineering Background

Education

Engineering Degree

Tools

Reliability Workbench

ASCE

BowTie

ETA

FTA

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Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) - Defence Airworthiness, Chippenham

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Posted:

29.04.2025

Expiry Date:

13.06.2025

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Job Description:

Highly experienced Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) required to support the MOD in ensuring safety engineering activities comply, are implemented to plan and are fit for purpose. You will join a specialist and growing team working for Defence clients across the air domain, including fixed wing, rotary and autonomous. This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and shape RINA’s ISA capability, providing the Defence sector with world class safety advisory services.

This role can be based out of our Chippenham, Lincoln or Leatherhead offices though RINA is smart/hybrid working organisation, so living within commuter distance of the office is not necessarily required. Moderate travel across the UK is required though. Despite being a permanent position, we will also consider a part-time (PAYE) role: 4 days/week.

Responsibilities:

• You will lead a variety of ISA engagements ensuring requirements are delivered on time, to budget, and to the required quality;
• You will manage projects either as an individual or managing a small team;
• Support with bids, proposals, analysis and report writing;
• Promote RINA’s Safety capability to customers, providing expert counsel, through face-to-face liaison, relationship building and presentations;
• Assist the Safety management team with augmenting safety capability to meet new and emerging market demands.

Qualifications & experience:

• At least ten years’ experience of delivering safety engineering management solutions, and have progressed into executing ISA intiatives;
• Airworthiness: ability to manage complex inter-twined safety assessments across air platforms, systems, equipment, safety and environmental aspects;
• Knowledge of UK MOD air platforms and the procurement process;
• Previous experience in the use and application of Safety Engineering tools such as Reliability Workbench, ASCE, BowTie, ETA or FTA;
• Working knowledge of Defence Standards: Def Stan 00-056, Def Stan 00-51;
• Some working knowledge of ASEMS, POSMS and POEMS processes;
• You will have an engineering background;
• Ideally you will have UK Security Clearance, or you must be a British citizen and be prepared to go through vetting.

About RINA Defence Consulting:

RINA Defence consulting has been awarded Gold status with the Armed Forces Covenant Employers Recognition Scheme and proudly supports those who serve.

We are a key engineering consulting partner to the Defence sector, providing a portfolio of consultancy services, including Safety Engineering, Environmental Safety, Integrated Logistics Support, Training Analysis, Cyber Assurance, Human Factors and Data Science & Analytics.

We offer the opportunity for you to specialise in your chosen technical specialism whilst working on a diverse range of client engagements, supporting some of the military’s most technically advanced programmes.

About RINA:

RINA is a 6,000 strong global engineering services firm, providing innovative services to critical industry sectors, including Defence, Industrial, Energy, Oil & Gas, Power, Renewables, Transport and infrastructure sectors. It operates out of 70 countries, giving us the depth of experience across engineering disciplines and have a strong reputation providing functional safety services that are of the highest quality, creating significant value to our clients. #LI-JB1

The Benefits we offer:

On top of a competitive salary we also provide the following benefits:

• Private medical insurance
• Life Assurance
• 6% Pension Contributions
• 25 days annual leave (option to buy extra days)
• Competitive maternity cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Military reservists additional annual leave
• STEM ambassadors additional annual leave
• Professional membership contribution
• Employee referral bonus

At RINA, we endeavor to create a work environment where every single person is valued and encouraged to develop new ideas. We provide equal employment opportunities and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected and safe from discrimination or harassment of any kind.