# UAS Flight Operations Manager - Germany

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies.

As a UAS Flight Operations Manager in Germany, you will build lean operational processes that let Helsing iterate fast without compromising safety and legal standards.

Responsibilities:

- Design and continuously improve flight safety processes that scale with operational tempo

- Own and maintain the German operations manual and LBA authorisation

- Act as primary point of contact with the LBA for authorisation matters, occurrence reporting, and audits

- Conduct site recces and pre-flight risk assessments

- Manage safety events locally

- Deliver internal training and maintain crew competency records

- Provide field oversight of flight operations

- Run the German compliance monitoring programme

Requirements:

- Experience building or re-engineering operational processes in a fast-scaling environment

- Flight safety expertise across complex, regulated environments

- Successful delivery of compliance or safety management projects

- Understanding of EASA Regulation (EU) 2019/947 and 2019/945

- Experience interacting with the LBA or an equivalent EASA national competent authority

Nice to have:

- Experience working within a defence, government or highly regulated aviation environment

- Familiarity with NATO frameworks

- Fluency in German and English

- Experience conducting safety investigations or occurrence reporting

- Experience in a start-up environment

What we offer:

- Competitive salary and VSOP options

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support

- Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

## Skills

### Required
- EASA Regulation (EU) 2019/947
- EASA Regulation (EU) 2019/945
- flight safety
- safety management
- compliance
- German

### Nice to have
- NATO frameworks
- safety investigations
- occurrence reporting
- start-up environment

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