Safety Risk Specialist - Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom - Civil Aviation Authority

Civil Aviation Authority

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Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom

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Description

Date:16 Apr 2024

Location:
Gatwick, GB

Company:
Civil Aviation Authority

Salary:
£44,000 up to £50,000 dependent upon experience

Contract Type:
Permanent - Full Time

Security Level:

BPSS
We are the UK's aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field.

Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment.

The Role

To support GDSAR, the SARG Leadership Team and Business Teams on a day-to-day basis by acting as a Key Risk Area(s) (KRA) focal point as defined by the Regulatory Safety Management System (RSMS).

The post holder will make important contributions to the development and refinement of the KRA methodology, including how safety issues are identified, captured, managed, and overseen and how these feed into the total system approach.

The post holder will engage directly with multiple business areas across the CAA and external stakeholders.

The postholder will support the KRA Safety Risk Panels (SRP), the output of which will be presented to the Safety Risk Committee (SRC) and Safety Leadership Group (SLG), as appropriate.

Core Accountabilities

To facilitate the framework within which the CAA ensures that state level Safety Risks (i.e., industry wide), and associated safety concerns, are captured in a way that is accurate, easily analysed and shared.
To support the development and implementation of the Sector and total system Safety Risk 'picture' by providing analysis and SME input.
To facilitate a systematic assessment, and mitigation/improvement action plan for each KRA SRP Safety Risks and associated concerns.
To ensure that Safety Risk Management (SRM) practices, identification, assessment, action implementation, review of effectiveness/reassessment, are conducted in accordance with CAA SRM framework.
To ensure adherence to, and support continuous improvement of, business rules to support the safety management system and SRM principles.
To facilitate and support business area ability to ensure improvement actions are evaluated for effectiveness.
To facilitate the assessment of whether there is an acceptable or tolerable level of safety for safety concerns within each KRA SRP with the relevant business areas.
To liaise with RSMS Focal Points as appropriate to ensure that the KRA SRP activity is holistic and integrated, and that crossovers are captured and managed appropriately.
Ensure accurate and reflective KRA reporting for use by the SRPs, SRC, SLG, CAA Board and State Safety Board as appropriate.
Provide support and input to the continuous improvement of tools, processes and procedures facilitating the RSMS and KRA SRP delivery.
Engage, where required, in using appropriate SRM tools and approaches, e.g., BowTie, STAMP and STPA, to support effective SRM analysis, and discussions for ensuring safety performance improvements.
To facilitate assurance to heads of business teams, DSARG and the CAA Board, of the full and thorough identification and management of the safety concerns associated with each KRA, and that activity, priority, and focus is placed correctly, proportionately and in a targeted way.
Support Performance-Based Regulation (PBR) training on an 'as required' basis.
Liaise with the Safety Intelligence Team for ensuring the tracking and monitoring for Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) and intelligence/analysis and data associated to the KRA.

About You
To be considered for the role you should have:

The capability to positively influence others internally and externally to generate momentum and achieve results.
The ability to solve problems and have an enquiring mind to assess issues to identify the causes and possible solutions, making recommendations and tracking resolutions.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and persuade people across the organisation.
The capability to coordinate the production of highquality deliverables (analysis, proposals, and reports) that are developed jointly by a range of contributors.
Resilience in the face of challenge.
Ability to anticipate, understand and respond to the requests of senior internal and external stakeholders, and be flexible and agile in response to changing demands.
Ability to work well in a team where you are not the SME.
People training and meeting / workshop facilitation skills/experience.
Experience and a clear understanding of risk management approaches.
Experience of operating Safety Management Systems.
Experience of safety culture development.
Experience of developing new ways to improve processes and operations.
Experience of project management.

Additional Information
For many appointments within the CAA, these roles require access to operationally sensitive infrastructure and/or Nationally Protected informati