Fire Safety & Reliability Leader - Flight Safety

Job Description Summary

The Sub-Section Manager for Flight Safety, Commercial Engines is responsible for ensuring product safety and reliability, aligning with functional, business, and company objectives. Key responsibilities include performing system safety trade studies/analyses, supporting the safety management system teams, and ensuring product reliability. The role involves implementing and enhancing safety policies and procedures and managing safety-related certification efforts while promoting a safety culture. This position reports to the Executive Commercial Flight Safety Leader.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical direction for assigned program tasks and personnel.
• Advocate for enhancements in fire safety and reliability for new aircraft engine designs, adhering to technical and program requirements.
• Partner with Product Line Engineering teams to develop, drive, and support reliability goals and requirements.
• Promote industry presence and partnerships; this will include influencing and developing technical standards for fire prevention and testing.
• Represent the Flight Safety Office in appropriate program meetings to ensure compliance to the policies and procedures set in place. Promote a safety culture within the enterprise.
• Provide support, council, and recommendations to section management.
• Establish work group goals within framework of section technical and financial objectives.
• Maintain broad awareness of efforts within group to assure technical quality excellence, timely completion of work and reviews, appropriate use of resources, and responsiveness to customer/program needs.
• Facilitate communication of technical and business information between organizations and within work group
• Communicate with management on technical, organizational, resource and personnel issues.
• Define roles and responsibilities for assigned personnel.
• Conduct performance appraisals and participate in salary planning.
• Promote professional growth through timely performance feedback, coaching and counseling.
• Ensure company compliance initiatives and training requirements are implemented within work group.
• This role will have direct reports

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Computer Science (or high school diploma/GED with 6 years' experience in systems engineering).
• At least 5 additional years of experience in a program or project leadership role within an engineering environment
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

• Effective team building and project management ability.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, this role requires interfacing with senior management and external regulators.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Awareness of statistical reliability techniques and lifecycle management
• Conduct performance appraisals and participate in salary planning.
• Promote professional growth through timely performance feedback, coaching and counseling.
• Ensure company compliance initiatives and training requirements are implemented within work group.
• Knowledge of safety risk assessment generation, interpretation and presentation
• Ability to travel globally.
• Experience with the Flight Safety & Reliability tasks for Commercial / Military programs through the product life cycle; including design, product risk assessments, hazard tracking, accident/incident record maintenance, and accident incident investigation.
• Act as a change agent to bring common safety & reliability process to Commercial & Military programs.
• Should be willing to become an accident investigator.