< Back to search

BAE Systems • Warton, United Kingdom

Safety, Compliance & Assurance Manager TyTAN

< Back to search

Job Description

Job Title: Safety, Compliance & Assurance Manager

Location: RAF Coningsby / Warton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £63,900+ Depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

  • Ensuring that the organisation is compliant with the requirements set by the Accountable Manager
  • Ensuring the Safety Management System is being delivered in accordance with the Safety Exposition and reported through regular measurement and monitoring
  • Ensuring the provision of an on-base assurance programme, including timely management of resultant findings
  • Deployment and administration of the on-base assurance and compliance monitoring system
  • Provision of advice to all employees on safety matters, including regular safety promotion and communication
  • Provision of safety investigations, analysis and trend monitoring
  • Carrying out risk based safety audits and safety self-assurance activities
  • Lead and support inputs into key business reviews

Core duties

  • Audit Program Manager
  • Issue of certification authorisations
  • Convening and Chairing the Safety Compliance & Assurance Review
  • Attending the Continuing Airworthiness Safety Compliance and Assurance Review representing area of responsibility
  • Ensuring that the organisation is compliant with the requirements set by the Accountable Manager and specifically that the Safety Management System is being delivered in accordance with the this Safety Exposition and reported through measurement and monitoring
  • Fulfilling the responsibilities of closure authority for Safety Impact Level 4 & 5 Safety Issues

Your skills and experiences:

Essential – awareness and experience of:

  • Maintenance and Continuing Airworthiness Regulations
  • Assurance Programme Management
  • Safety Management System
  • Maintenance & Support environment, including significant direct experience of supporting Regulatory activities, including definition, development, delivery and management
  • Establishing and maintaining a governance framework (Regulate, Educate, Oversight, Enforce) with competent personnel within that governance structure, to discharge appropriate oversight and reporting of regulatory requirement compliance

Desirable

  • Continuous Improvement Practitioner
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Relevant Degree/HND or HNC

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Safety, Compliance & Assurance (SC&A) Team:

Join our Safety, Compliance & Assurance (SC&A) Team, a high-profile group at the heart of ensuring regulatory excellence across the TyTAN aircraft maintenance operation. Based at Coningsby and Lossiemouth, our team drives independent assurance, compliance, and safety governance, underpinning approvals to MRP Part 145, EN9100:2018, and ISO 9001:2015 standards. Working closely with senior leadership and key stakeholders, we ensure airworthiness, operational compliance, and regulatory integrity—making a real impact on aviation safety. If you’re ready to lead in a dynamic, high-stakes environment, this is your opportunity.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 13th February 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

#LI-MH1

#LI-Remote, #LI-Hybrid, #LI-Onsite

Company benefits

Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 52 weeks with the option of returning to work on reduced hours for the first 13 weeks
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks for eligible employees
Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Gym membership
Buy or sell annual leave
Bank holiday swaps
Company shutdown periods
Share options
Salary sacrifice
Employee discounts
Lunch and learns
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Mental health first aiders
Health insurance
Family health insurance
Annual bonus
Shared parental leave
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Relocation packages

We need to ask employees of BAE Systems what it's like to work there before we assign the company FlexScore®.

Location flexibility
?
More information needed
Hours flexibility
?
More information needed
Benefits
?
More information needed
Work-life balance
?
More information needed
Role modelling
?
More information needed
Autonomy
?
More information needed

Working at BAE Systems

Company employees

Around 100,000

Currently Hiring Countries

Australia

Canada

Malaysia

Saudi Arabia

United Kingdom

Office Locations