Safety Manager

Job Title: Safety Manager  

Position Overview  

A aviation training organisation is seeking an experienced Safety Manager to oversee and continuously improve the organisation’s aviation safety management framework  

The successful candidate will act as the organisation’s Nominated Post Holder for Safety within an Approved Training Organisation / flight training environment, ensuring full compliance with applicable aviation regulatory requirements, including EASA, Civil Aviation Authority, ICAO and local regulatory standards  

This position is responsible for managing the Safety Management System, conducting safety risk assessments, monitoring safety performance, delivering safety training, supporting regulatory audits, maintaining safety documentation, and promoting a proactive safety culture across staff, instructors, students and operational teams  

This JD is based on the current role scope: EASA accepted Nominated Post Holder for an ATO, safety risk assessments, safety performance monitoring, in-house safety training, ATO audits, safety manual revision, and EASA/local regulatory compliance  

Key Responsibilities  

• Act as the organisation’s Safety Manager / Nominated Post Holder for Safety within an  

aviation training environment  

• Manage, maintain and continuously improve the organisation’s Safety Management  

System  

• Conduct continuous safety risk assessments across flight training, ground operations,  

student activities and support functions  

• Monitor safety performance and develop relevant safety performance indicators, trends  

and reports  

• Maintain and revise the organisation’s Safety Manual and related safety procedures in line  

with regulatory requirements  

• Ensure compliance with applicable EASA, ICAO, Civil Aviation Authority and local aviation  

regulatory standards  

• Prepare for, support and manage internal and external ATO / regulatory safety audits  

• Lead investigation and reporting of safety occurrences, hazards, incidents and nonconformities  

• Conduct root cause analysis and ensure effective corrective and preventive actions are  

implemented  

• Deliver in-house safety training for staff, instructors, students and relevant stakeholders,  

including initial and recurrent safety training  

• Promote a strong, proactive and just safety culture across the organisation  

• Liaise with aviation authorities and regulatory bodies on safety-related matters  

• Work closely with compliance, quality, training, operations and maintenance stakeholders  

to ensure safety requirements are embedded across the organisation  

• Streamline safety and compliance management systems to improve usability, reporting  

and operational effectiveness  


• Prepare safety reports, audit responses, risk registers and management review  

documentation  

• Ensure all safety records, registers and documentation are accurate, up to date and auditready  

Required Experience  

• Previous experience as a Safety Manager, SMS Manager, Aviation Safety Manager,  

Safety Compliance Manager, Quality & Safety Manager, or Compliance Monitoring  

Manager within aviation  

• Strong experience in an Approved Training Organisation, Flight Training Organisation,  

aviation academy, pilot training school, airline training academy, or similar aviation training  

environment  

• Experience acting as, or supporting, a Nominated Post Holder / accepted postholder /  

regulator-approved safety representative  

• Strong working knowledge of Safety Management Systems within aviation  

• Experience conducting safety risk assessments, safety performance monitoring and  

occurrence reporting  

• Experience supporting or leading civil aviation authority audits, ATO audits or regulatory  

assessments  

• Strong understanding of aviation regulatory frameworks such as EASA, ICAO, CAA,  

GCAA, CAAM or equivalent national authority requirements  

• Experience developing, revising or maintaining aviation safety manuals, SMS manuals,  

audit documentation and regulatory procedures  

• Ability to deliver safety training to staff, instructors, students and operational personnel  

• Strong reporting, investigation, audit and corrective-action management skills  

Preferred Experience  

• Previous experience within an EASA-approved ATO or equivalent regulated aviation  

training organisation  

• Exposure to Part-ORA, Part-FCL, ATO, FTO, AOC, AMO, CAMO, Part 145 or Part 147  

environments  

• Background in aviation quality assurance, compliance monitoring, aviation security or  

aircraft maintenance training  

• Experience liaising directly with civil aviation authorities  

• Experience managing safety systems across both fixed-wing and/or rotary aircraft  

environments  

• Previous Middle East or GCC experience would be advantageous

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