Flight Test Aviation Safety Official - Air Dominance (Lead or Senior)

Flight Test Aviation Safety Official - Air Dominance (Lead or Senior)

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Test and Evaluation (BT&E) Flight Test Safety Engineering – Military Programs team is seeking a Flight Test Aviation Safety Official - Air Dominance to join our team in Berkeley, MO. The individual will be involved in military developmental test programs with a primary focus on Next Generation Air Dominance. The individual will also occasionally support other military programs including existing Air Dominance programs, vertical lift, unmanned and derivative aircraft flight test performing 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 hazards and further mitigate risk. This individual will be joining a team of high performing 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 Lead and Senior 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 assessments as necessary per DCMA 8210 and Enterprise SMS

• 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

 

This position is expected to be 100% onsite.  The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.
 

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• This position requires an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)

• This position requires ability to obtain program access, for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship only

• 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 and/or military environment

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