Flight Test Aviation Safety Official (Senior)

Flight Test Aviation Safety Official (Senior)

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Test and Evaluation (BT&E) Flight Test Safety Engineering team is seeking a Flight Test Aviation Safety Official to join our team in Southern California at either our Edwards AFB, CA or China Lake, CA site. The individual will be involved in primarily military, vertical lift and unmanned developmental test programs. However, the team may also support commercial and military derivative aircraft flight test to perform operational and safety engineering tasks.  The individual must have a strong understanding of flight test, aircraft operations, risk identification, and mitigation. This person should be able to provide independent oversight to programs to validate their risk assessment and mitigating actions.

In addition, this person must be able to investigate non-normal incidents and determine if corrective actions are required to immediately contain threat and further mitigate risk. This individual will be joining a team of safety engineers and Aviation Safety Officers who collaborate in a very dynamic, fast-paced development, and test environment to manage operational safety risk and promote mishap prevention.

Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Senior Level Flight Test Aviation Safety Officials.

Position Responsibilities:

• Collaborate within a cross section of program disciplines in a very dynamic, fast-paced development and test environment to promote mishap prevention

• Develop and manage safety requirements in a collaborative environment early in the design process through the life-cycle of the product/program, with specific emphasis on test operations

• Perform critical safety engineering activities to support ground and flight test/launch preparation and operations, to include support the development of Flight Test Plans (FTPs) with a focus on Test Hazard Analyses (THAs) and mitigation plans, development of test procedures, and active participation in ground and flight / test mission assurance readiness reviews (FTMARRs)

• Perform Safety Risk Management (SRM) activities in a highly dynamic operational/test environment through support of and/or leading Safety Action Groups (SAGs) activity

• Provide Safety Assurance (SA) function through interface with Safety data analysts and Quality Assurance (QA) and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) counterparts

• Provide flight and ground test operations safety support during testing, to include active participation in pretest briefs/debriefs, after action reviews, and develop pre-mishap plans and notification procedures

• Evaluate customer/operational needs and requirements specifications to develop safety requirements, constraints, and operating limits

• Review engineering design specifications, test operations, change proposals, deficiency reports, and deviation/waiver requests for potential flight test safety impacts

• Conduct periodic safety survey audits and assessments

• Leads and participates in incident investigations and root cause/corrective action analyses

• Leads and facilitates aircraft impound investigations

• Interface with customer and program subject matter experts

• Prepare presentations, analyses, and reports for government/customer safety boards, program design reviews, and test/mission readiness reviews

• Deliver oral and written presentations to peers, program management, senior leadership, customer, and regulatory agencies

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 3+ years of experience with test hazard / risk identification and mitigation plans

• 5+ years relevant technical experience in a combination of aviation safety, systems safety analysis, safety management system, ground test, flight test, aviation operations or test hazard analysis in a commercial or military environment

• Capable of supporting and traveling between all three job locations listed (Edwards AFB, China Lake and Palmdale) at least monthly but as frequently as weekly to support test program needs

• Capable of traveling to other locations up to 15% of the time

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Level 5: 10 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• 7+ years of experience in flight and/or ground test

• Prior Test Conductor (TC) or Test Director (TD) experience

• Prior Aviation Safety Officer (ASO) or Aviation Safety Investigator (ASI) experience

• 14+ years related work experience or an equivale