# Safety Management System (SMS) E-7 (Wedgetail) Safety Support Official

**Company**: Boeing Defence United Kingdom Limited
**Location**: GBR - RAF Lossiemouth
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

Boeing Defence UK is seeking a Safety Management System (SMS) E-7 (Wedgetail) Safety Support Official to join their dynamic Safety Management System (SMS) team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety of products and services within the E-7 Programme.

The Safety Support Official will report directly to the Fixed Wing SMS Lead and will be responsible for:

- Managing occurrence reports raised within the E-7 Programme

- Performing safety investigations in response to safety reports

- Supporting the effective management of safety actions and mitigations

- Leading and managing safety meetings

- Performing safety promotion and feedback to develop and sustain a positive safety culture within the programme

- Supporting the E-7 Programme Safety Risk Management (SRM) strategy

- Delivering SMS and Human Factors training to support compliance with regulation

- Maintaining SMS interfaces with internal departments, MoD, and suppliers

- Supporting the development and use of Safety Performance metrics to drive continuous improvement of the SMS

- Supporting internal and external audits

- Creating and maintaining SMS documentation

The ideal candidate will have:

- Qualifications and experience in aircraft maintenance or engineering in civil or military aviation sectors

- Formal Safety Management Systems training and experience

- Experience in conducting safety investigations in aviation and drafting detailed investigation reports

- Experience in safety risk management methodologies and application (BowTie methodology)

- Experience with Military or Civil SMS regulations and standards and their application in products and services

- Experience in developing and deploying a safety promotion strategy

- Competent in delivering presentations to large audiences

- Experience and understanding of Just Culture principles and their application

- Experience in managing safety reports using Military or Civil reporting tools

- Experience in the use of metrics to evaluate SMS performance and drive continuous improvement activity

- Proven experience in collaborating across various functions to establish strong working relationships and enhance understanding to effectively address safety-related issues

- Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate effective engagement with the workforce, as well as with Senior Leaders within BDUK, the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and suppliers

- Proficient IT skills, particularly in commonly used software applications

Boeing offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

- Competitive salary and annual incentive plans

- Continuous learning opportunities

- Success as defined by you, with tools and flexibility to make a meaningful impact

- An inclusive culture

- Excellent adoption and parental leave options

- 23 days plus UK public holidays and a Winter Break between Christmas and New Year

- Pension Plan with up to 10% employer contribution

- Company-paid BUPA Medical Plan

- Short Term Sickness: 100% pay for the first 26 weeks

- Long Term Sickness: 66.67% of annual salary from 27th week

- 6x annual salary life insurance

- Learning Together Programme to support ongoing personal and career development

- Access to Boeing's Well Being Programs, tools, and incentives

## Skills

### Required
- Aircraft maintenance
- Engineering
- Safety Management Systems
- Safety investigations
- Safety risk management
- BowTie methodology
- SMS regulations
- Safety promotion
- Just Culture principles
- Safety reporting tools
- Metrics evaluation
- Collaboration
- Interpersonal skills
- IT skills

### Nice to have
- Data analytics
- Continuing Airworthiness
- Type Airworthiness organisations
- Human Factors facilitation
- Occurrence Review Groups

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