Safety manager (M/F)

Job Description:

Airbus Defence and Space is looking for a Safety manager (f/m) to join our RAMS department based in Toulouse, France.

Our RAMS department delivers centralized Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS) engineering for space programs across satellite, instrument, and ground segment projects. Dedicated to technical excellence and continuous innovation, the team drives R&D, expands program support, and fosters cross-company technical collaboration to ensure top-tier dependability and safety at every level.

As Safety manager on Egnos program (*), you will be expected to ensure that all dependability and safety risks associated with the design, development, production and operation of the system are adequately identified, assessed, minimised, controlled and finally accepted, over the whole scope and duration of the project.

(*) European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is Europe's regional satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) that is used to improve the performance of GNSSs, such as GPS and Galileo. It provides safety of life navigation services to aviation, maritime and land-based users over most of Europe.

Your working environment:

Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city of the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

• SAFETY management
  • Maintain the Safety plan in accordance with the project safety requirements
  • Lead the Safety & Dependability team (~5 persons)
  • Overall responsibility for the assessment of the validation of lower than system-level safety requirements, and the validation of system-level safety requirements.
  • Review and/or Approbation of Safety-related deliverables
  • Safety assessment of the derived and Security requirements
  • Safety assessment of the Technical Facts (anomalies) reported by IVQ.

• Leadership
  • Manage the workload for all Safety and Dependability activities and size the team according to it
  • For each task identified, coordinate the RAMS team for the allocation, identification of book captains up to the review and/or Approbation of Safety-related deliverables
  • Promote team spirit within the team.

• Stakeholder interface
  • Represent ADS in each Safety Board with ESA
  • Management of the weekly RAMS meeting
  • Safety assessment of the Technical Facts (anomalies) and participation to the Non-conformance Review Board.

Your profile:

• Knowledge of RAMS engineering processes methods and tools
• Standards: MIL-HDBK-217F+N2, FIDES, ECSS dependability and safety standards, DO 254 / 278
• Mastering of GNSS signal processing techniques, and statistical data analysis would be an asset
• Experience in ESA or large navigation projects
• Experience in other safety domains: aircrafts, helicopters, trains would be an asset
• Good communication & presentation skills (interface with many internal customers/stakeholders, external customers, suppliers)
• Able to lead in coordination with other RAMS team members
• Autonomous
• Proactive approach, openness and flexibility
• Good team spirit
• Fluent in English and French.

This position requires a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities.

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
Airbus Defence and Space SAS

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Classe Emploi (France): Classe G14

Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Qualification & Operability

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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.