Safety Management Systems (SMS) Manager

Safran; Pitstone; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early finish on Fridays

25 days' holiday

Pension scheme and life assurance

Professional development and mentoring

Onsite amenities: parking, restaurant,

Showers and bicycle storage

Job summary

Safran Electrical & Power in Pitstone, Buckinghamshire, is seeking a level-headed SMS Manager to lead safety across two UK sites. The role focuses on implementing and maintaining a robust SMS, promoting safety awareness, and coordinating with authorities to ensure airworthiness compliance.

The position is hybrid with on-site presence at Pitstone and Twinsburg. You will oversee safety reporting, audits, training, and continuous improvement of safety practices, driving a culture of Safety First

Qualifications

• Proven knowledge of UK CAA/EASA Part 21J/21G/145 requirements
• Experience in safety management systems and audits
• Ability to interpret complex safety regulatory frameworks
• Strong organizational and leadership skills

Responsibilities

• Full implementation of an SMS across Pitstone and Twinsburg sites
• Promote safety awareness within the two organizational sites
• Ensure safety management is prioritised across all processes
• Maintain and improve safety documentation and records

Skills

MS Office

Project Mgmt

Airworthiness regs

Auditing

Safety leadership

Job description

At Safran Electrical & Power, we recognise that aviation needs to innovate and change in order to protect our environment. We believe that future aircraft power systems will be hybrid-electric or full-electric, which is why we are working to develop and deliver advanced electrical solutions to help decarbonise flight. If you want to help deliver this future, we are looking for enthusiastic and creative people to join our team. The UK Safran Electrical & Power team has expertise in designing and developing electrical systems comprising generators, power conversion, distribution and control, with developing expertise in electric motors for aircraft propulsion. SMS Manager Pitstone, Buckinghamshire Hybrid Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority.

Benefits

• Early finish on Fridays
• Competitive salary and annual bonus and pay review
• 25 days' holiday
• bank holidays (option to buy/sell)
• Strong Pension scheme and life assurance
• Professional development, ongoing training, mentoring
• Onsite amenities: parking, restaurant, bicycle storage, showers
• Family-friendly and accessible workplace policies

As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence, and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation, and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed together through a shared vision.

Responsibilities

• Full implementation of an SMS across both Safran Electrical & Power sites (Pitstone & Twinsburg)
• Promote safety awareness within the two organizational sites
• Ensure that safety management has the same or higher priority level throughout both organisations as any other management and operational processes
• Implementation of a standardized process for embedding demonstration of compliance with airworthiness requirements across all projects across both sites
• Facilitating training to increase awareness of airworthiness issues across both sites
• Manage all aspects of the organisations SMS, including full development and implementation of a SMS across Safran Electrical & Power (Pitstone and Twinsburg)
• Monitoring the effectiveness of SMS
• Initiating corrective actions when necessary
• Providing safety reports on SMS performance on periodic basis
• Providing safety advice to top management and proposing corrective actions on safety related-issues as needed
• Ensuring that safety-related documentation and records are available and up-to-date via Coordination of the weekly PIC meetings
• Monitor the reliability of SEP products and ensure actions are taken to correct any potential impairment of airworthiness safety
• Collate, coordinate and analyse all occurrence reports from across both sites
• Main coordinator with the authorities for MOR's
• Providing safety advice and mentoring to management, staff and contractors
• Maintaining a safety reporting system to identify and manage safety related hazards and risks
• Investigating or coordinating the investigation of accidents and incidents
• Identifying and often facilais for ongoing staff training to support SMS objectives
• Overseeing internal and external safety audit programs
• Maintaining the company's emergency response plan
• Promoting general safety awareness and the development of a healthy safety culture within the company
• Providing management with data to assess the performance of the SMS and areas where improvement is required

Professional Skills

• MS office proficiency and engineering related tools
• Organization and Project Management
• Extensive UK CAA / EASA Part 21J (Design), Part 21G (Production) & Part 145 Maintenance regulatory requirements
• Good skills for quality issues investigation, audit, analysis and correction / prevention
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagram or schedule form
• Good skills to coordinate issues with operations and other areas
• MEDA safety investigator (or equivalent)
• Lead Auditor trained
• Train the Trainer trained

Behavioral Skills

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Must have the ability follow up actions effectively
• Ability to manage multiple tasks
• Good leadership, initiative and execution
• Ability to convince, accept responsibility, adaptability-flexibility