NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights each year. It provides air traffic control services from two control centres supporting airports all around the UK, as well as a wide range of commercial solutions to over 30 countries internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.
Job Purpose:
Your new role will support the delivery of Safety Assurance activities to support the successful implementation of changes to NATS’ Operational Services, to ensure compliance with NATS’ safety policies and regulations.
This will involve preparing Safety & Assurance plans and arguments and collating the evidence for Change Assurance documentation covering Safety Management and Business Continuity/Service Resilience assurance and risks (including contributions from Systems/Software Assurance, Human Factors and Cyber Security functions).
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate workshops to identify safety hazards and the elicitation of mitigating, functional and non-functional requirements that form the safety & assurance requirements for a project change.
- Ensure that any issues affecting the safety, business continuity, human performance and cyber security of NATS services or its interfaces are identified and resolved.
- Support the continuous improvement of safety and assurance processes by providing suggestions/ideas to the appropriate BPE/BPO.
- Create and deliver Assurance documentation (including Operational Safety and Technical Assurance documents) both for existing Operations and new Project Change assurance.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- A degree in a STEM or Assurance related discipline, at a minimum.
- Previous Military experience will be ideal.
- Excellent understanding of Engineering Operational Services and Procedures, and the ability to understand the scope and potential safety impacts of project changes.
- Good knowledge of the principles and practices for providing assurance (i.e., those applied for Safety, Security, Business Continuity, Human Factors, Software Development) as applied to the design and development of systems and services to support the delivery of the NATS Operations.
- Good knowledge of Business and Safety Management Systems.
- Knowledge or experience in the use of the principal tools, techniques and method of the assuring changes to Operational Services.
- Work package management knowledge, including the mechanisms and application of Earned Value Management.
- A passion for Safety or Air Traffic Management, highly motivated and eager to learn.
- Able to communicate complex technical and/or operational concepts clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
- Previous experience in Air Traffic Management will be a distinct advantage.
We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally. In addition to a competitive salary, you’ll also receive a wide range of other benefits which include a market-leading defined contribution pension scheme, voluntary benefits and retail discounts, wellness support and a comprehensive learning and development offering.
We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely.
If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.
