Operational Safety Lead - Defense

Applied Intuition•Columbia, WA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

As the Operational Safety Lead, you will be creating tools to aid our operational teams in evaluating and mitigating safety risks. You will also be the guiding authority on accepting operational safety risk for all projects. Projects include ground, maritime, and flight tests of crewed and uncrewed platforms for Group 1-5 UAS, including ordinance. Projects also include uncrewed and crewed maritime vehicles and ground vehicles. The COS will oversee, review, and revise as necessary the comprehensive operational safety program for ground, maritime, and flight test operations, including experimental test, demonstration, and corporate flights.

Requirements

Graduate of a certified test pilot school or at least 10 years of testing experience to include leading test teams.
FAA Part 107 license (or better)
Maintenance, experimental, developmental, or production test experience
Ordinance handling experience.
100 hours minimum PIC for Part 107
Must be willing to travel up to 25% of the time.
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Must have an active U.S. security clearance

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree
8 years of aviation, 4 years of aviation safety experience
Experience working with government test teams and navigating government Safety Review Boards.
Advanced degrees will be considered as additional experience
Active US Top Secret Clearance

Responsibilities

Setting company safety requirements.
Work with the leaders of each vertical to ensure their standard operating procedures (SOPs) support the company’s safety requirements.
Work with project and vertical leads to aid in evaluating risks for each project.
Serve as an impartial arbitrator of risk for projects and take direct authority for safety anytime the risk level goes above “Medium.”
Stay informed of the latest regulatory guidance and industry best practices pertaining to operational safety. Disseminate new information and ensure company policies and procedures remain in compliance.
Provide direct input to operators, test engineers, and aircrew by hosting safety stand-downs and recurrent safety training.
Collaborate with testing organizations in developing, updating, and approving individual programs’ Test Risk Analyses Worksheets (TRW).
Be a leader in Test Risk Management through coordination with the Test Engineer of each program and by participating in test plan reviews, test operations, pre- and post-test operational briefings, and test readiness reviews.
Collaborate in the development of and amendments to, company's operations and test documentation, including operations manuals, test SOPs, local procedures, etc. This includes procedures involving ground handling of aircraft.
Lead periodic reviews of operational safety plans for each vertical and ensure that mitigation procedures are practical, being used, and are modified if required to ensure test team safety.
Procure and provide necessary safety training to operators and those evaluating safety risk.