Safety Management System Lead
Full Time
Bristol
The Rolls-Royce Defence Bristol UK Team are recruiting for a Safety Management Systems lead. The Safety Management Systems lead will be executing required activities to maintain required certifications for the MAA, EASA, CAA and standards approvals body and develop positive working relationship with the Regulatory/Standards representatives in person on the Defence UK and International sites.
The Safety Management Lead will provide regulatory guidance to the Rolls-Royce Defence organization and lead the Safety Management System. They will also develop and deliver on the internal and external audit programs for Defence UK & International along with improving and maintaining the quality system and ensure alignment with the new Rolls-Royce Management System.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.
We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.
We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.
What we offer
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.
What you will be doing
In this exciting new role, you will have a chance to:
- Develop and maintain a new Defence UK and International Safety Management System (OE) to meet the regulatory requirements and roll out across the organization and also collaborate with the wider Rolls-Royce Safety Management community to share best practices and adopt improvements to support One Rolls-Royce.
- Support and improve the existing Safety Management System (MRO) to ensure compliance to the regulation and lead human factors investigations as the Subject Matter Expert.
- Perform and support Audits to ensure the Audit Plan is met and manage any Non Conformances raised to ensure they are managed to the business requirements in line with internal procedures and timescales.
- Report and communicate safety concerns in a clear and concise way to managers of all levels to support the safety management culture.
- Support the deliverable of functional KPI’s, including developing and maintaining.
Who we’re looking for
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
- Degree Educated or Relevant experience in Operations or Quality Systems
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to build effective teams
- Certified Lead Auditor, Aerospace experience, 8D Practitioner and MEDA trained all preferred
- Green Belt or Black Belt accredited, or willing to progress to accreditation.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
