Airworthiness Manager - Safety & Compliance Lead

K&K Selekt Human Resources Consulting; Krosno; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

K&K Selekt Human Resources Consulting, on behalf of an international aerospace manufacturer, seeks an Airworthiness Manager / Head of Safety to lead the quality, safety and compliance activities for aircraft release and ongoing operation.

The role supervises the QMS, configuration management, continued airworthiness, and safety management, ensuring independent, auditable processes and proactive risk mitigation across design, production and in-service fleets.

Qualifications

• Higher education degree in a technical field such as engineering or aviation.
• 5+ years in aviation quality, airworthiness, compliance, or safety roles.
• Minimum 2–3 years in a function with independent authority.
• English proficiency for documentation and audits.

Responsibilities

• Quality Management System: establish, implement, maintain QMS; audits; non-conformance process.
• Production Release: final technical approval before delivery; oversight of acceptance testing.
• Configuration Management: define baseline configuration; manage engineering changes; traceability.
• Continued Airworthiness: manage service bulletin system; monitor fleet safety.
• Safety Management: implement SMS; risk assessment; incident investigations; escalation.
• Documentation Management: prepare conformity docs and audit trails.

Skills

Quality management

Airworthiness expertise

Safety management

Auditing

Documentation skills

Analytical skills

Strong communication

Decision making under pressure

Education

Engineering or aviation-related degree

Tools

Quality management tools

Auditing software

Job description

Location: Subcarpathian Voivodeship

K&K Selekt Human Resources Consulting for 25 years, has been conducting HR consulting projects for global, renowned industrial and service companies as well as new investments.

Our partners develop their businesses thanks to well-matched management staff, managers, leaders, and experienced engineers.

Development, change, success, and satisfaction are the features that make companies and talents grow with us, in accordance with their needs and goals.

PROJECT: Airworthiness Manager / Head of Safety

Together with our Partner, an international manufacturing company from the aerospace industry, we invite you to discuss the role of Airworthiness Manager / Head of Safety.

Aim Of The Role

Operationally, the role runs the quality management system, governs the release of each aircraft before delivery, controls the configuration of the aircraft, monitors the in-service fleet, and embeds a proactive safety culture. Acts as the independent compliance authority demonstrating that the quality, configuration, and safety system requirements; leads the compliance-side relationship. This function is kept strictly independent from the Head of Design — self-verification by the same person is not compatible with independent quality assurance. Serves as the internal overseer of compliance and quality.

Scope Of Responsibilities

• Quality Management System:
  
  

– Establishing, implementing, and maintaining the quality management system.

– Conducting internal audits and managing non-conformance / corrective-action process.

– Ensuring every produced conforms to the approved design.

• Production Release (Gatekeeper):
  
  

– Final technical approval or rejection of each aircraft before delivery — independent of commercial pressure.

– Oversight of production acceptance testing.

– Maintaining conformity documentation per serial number.

• Configuration Management:
  
  

– Defining and controlling the baseline configuration of the aircraft.

– Managing the engineering change process in coordination with the Head of Design.

– Ensuring design-to-component-to-production traceability per serial number.

• Continued Airworthiness:
  
  

– Operating service bulletin system and incident / failure reporting system.

– Ongoing fleet safety and reliability monitoring with risk analysis.

– Maintaining flight manual and maintenance manual revisions.

• Safety Management:
  
  

– Establishing and operating a safety management system across design, production, and in-service.

– Identification, assessment, and escalation of safety risks; maintaining risk register.

– Leading incident investigations including root-cause analysis.

– Promoting proactive safety culture across engineering, production, and operations.

– Direct escalation of critical safety findings to the Accountable Manager.

• Documentation Management:
  
  

– Aligning quality management system for aircraft framework.

– Building documentation and traceability for authority review and make-and-model audit.

– Owning conformity documentation as auditable backbone of the compliance statement.

– Primary compliance-side point of quality, configuration, and safety matters.

– Preparing for and supporting authority audits and conformity reviews.

Requirements

• Higher education degree in a technical field. Engineering, aviation or any equivalent professional qualification in quality / safety / airworthiness.
• 5 years or more in aviation quality, airworthiness, compliance, or safety management roles.
• Minimum 2–3 years in a quality / airworthiness / safety function with independent authority.
• English skills (written and spoken): professional working proficiency for documentation, audits, business communication.
• Quality management system tools; audit and traceability documentation software; aviation compliance documentation tools.
• AS/EN 9100, AS 9110, Part-ML - any, preferred but not required.
• Driving license Cat. B is required.
• Excellent analytical skills with a strong ability to identify and resolve problems.
• Strong communication skills. Cross-functional communication toward engineering, production, and management.
• Ability to decide independently of commercial pressure and to enforce that decision.
• Analytical strength in fleet data, risk, and safety evaluation.
• Strong safety mindset; ability to embed a proactive safety culture.
  
  

Our Partner Offers

• Professional and personal development opportunities.
• Positive working environment based on teamwork and unquestionable integrity and professionalism.
• Work in an international environment of aviation enthusiasts.
• Opportunity to develop into a Head of Quality & Safety / Compliance Director in the future.
• Company events.
  
  

We kindly inform that we will contact only the selected candidates.

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