AVIATION SAFETY OFFICER
Join the leading producer of aircraft for corporate, government, private, and military customers around the world as the Aviation Safety Officer (ASO), located in the South Eastern US. This position, reporting directly to the President of the company, will oversee, review and revise the comprehensive aviation safety program at the company for all flight operations, including experimental test, production test, demonstration, and corporate flights.
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Safety Programs: Overseeing, regularly evaluating and changing, as needed, the aviation safety program at the company. This will require the ASO to understand the program, policies and processes that are currently in place; use gap analyses to identify what is lacking, and create a plan to change the programs to ensure industry leading safety standards at the company.
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Auditing: Reviewing the regular audits of all company Airplane Flight Manuals, flight crew qualification, training, assignments and authorizations to fly specific types of missions. Oversee the audits and review the results to ensure all processes and documentation is complete, effective and exceeding industry standards.
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Safety Culture: Serve as the company champion for safety, ensuring a proper safety culture is instilled throughout the company. Focus on ensuring Flight Operations, Flight Test and Engineering personnel are instilled with a safety culture of the highest order.
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Flight Test and Flight Operations: Work closely with the Flight Test and Flight Operations departments, ensuring that their safety related processes, procedures and policies are to the required levels. Collaborate in the creating, updating and approval of flight test protocols, procedures and Test Safety Hazard Analyses (TSHA).
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Pilot Training Program: Collaborate with the Flight Operations department to ensuring the company’s pilot training programs and materials are meeting safety requirements and industry standards.
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Company Representation: Represent the company in aviation safety matters with government, industry and professional organizations. Participate in the related organizations to maintain and constant awareness of new regulations, requirements and industry standards.
BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE:
The ideal candidate will have the following education, work history, knowledge and skills.
Education: Bachelor’s degree required. Graduate degree is a plus. Graduate of a military or civilian test pilot school required.
Experience:
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15 years of aviation experience required.
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Candidates MUST have experience managing the aviation safety program in a military or commercial setting.
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Experience as a Flight Test Pilot of Crew Member is required.
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FAA pilot qualification required.
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FAA Designated Engineering Representative (DER) or ODA authorization as Flight Test Pilot or Engineer.
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Type rating in large cabin aircraft preferred.
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Mix of aircraft operations and technical aerospace engineering, testing and qualification experience is preferred.
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Sound knowledge of corporate/executive flight operations and production and certification test flying.
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Must have strong written, verbal, analytical and organizational skills.
If you meet the qualifications above and are interested in this position, please submit your resume to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
