Personal Accountabilities

• Promote a safety and learning culture that is risk-based and satisfies our basic statutory and international obligations including assurance of compliance.
• Act in accordance with the CAA’s HR policies, applying our values and behaviour policies in their day-to-day role.
• Actively contributing to Personal Development Conversations, including future personal development and progression opportunities.
• Creating time to learn and develop.
• Ensure that all recommendations and decisions are proportionate to the needs and safety expectations of the non-commercial / non-complex sector, are consistent with extant regulatory policy (using objective risk assessment techniques as necessary) and are recorded in a timely and accurate manner using designated CAA systems including Q-Pulse.
• Ensure proportionate and timely action is taken if and where safety standards and performance are found to be unacceptable, in respect of aircraft owners, organisations and individuals.
• Represent the CAA’s perspective on continuing airworthiness and maintenance issues.in decision-making committees and working groups internally and externally, nationally and internationally.
• Maintain appropriate expertise and provide a source of expert advice to CAA colleagues and stakeholders as required.
• Identify and coordinate research into areas of significant GA airworthiness concern.
• Provide clarification to stakeholders with regard to existing requirements and contribute to the development of new ones to cover new technology, novel applications of existing technology, and novel proposals for compliance demonstration.

Airworthiness Accountabilities (Survey)

• Perform Aircraft Surveys (physical/documentary) to verify conformity with the appropriate or UK requirements for C of A and Permit to Fly aircraft. Issue safety certificates on behalf of the CAA (CofA, PtF, ARC).
• Ensure aircraft in-service defects are investigated and all necessary action taken to maintain safety standards. Take direct airworthiness safety intervention measures where necessary including in-service difficulties / incidents and accidents to ensure the continued safety of participants and third parties.
• Identify, categorise and share safety-relevant intelligence (e.g. occurrence reporting or Whistleblowing) to deliver oversight which considers statutory compliance obligations, just culture, risk and performance with a safety outcome focus. Escalate to the appropriate level within SARG risks which may lead to enforcement action, either on a regulatory or criminal basis.
• Evaluation, by physical survey, of aircraft, engines, propellers, equipment and components, or their modifications, to establish compliance with airworthiness requirements.
• Undertake type liaison responsibilities on aircraft and make recommendations as appropriate to colleagues inside and outside CAA (including other NAA’s) to ensure continued and continuing airworthiness standards are met.

Airworthiness Accountabilities (Approved organisations)

• Perform initial assessment and continued oversight of GA organisations in accordance with National and International requirements (Part 21, Part-145, Part ML, Part-CAO, BCAR A8-1, A8-9, A8-21, A8-23, A8-24, A8-25, A8-26). Provide detailed recommendations for organisation approvals and variations.
• Perform initial assessment and continued oversight of the GA elements of organisations managed by SARG Airworthiness in accordance with National and International requirements (Part 21, Part-145, Part-CAO, A8-21). Provide detailed recommendations for organisation approvals and variations.
• To audit the performance of approved Organisations to assess their compliance with the relevant regulations and to do so in line with performance-based regulation (PBR) principles.
• In relation to organisation oversight activities, consider all enforcement options available and highlight issues or concerns that might lead to any level of enforcement activity, either on a regulatory or criminal basis, through line management, as appropriate.
• Through line management, be responsible for decision-making on whether to commission an investigation when a breach of aviation law is suspected or resulting from a recommendation from the CAA’s Investigation and Enforcement team (IET).
• Capture and readily share safety-relevant intelligence, information and analysis from multiple internal and external sources with all CAA groups.
• Understand and apply principles of Performance Based Oversight in accordance with the Entity Performance Tool (EPT) process and consistent with the wider CAA approach to Performance Based Regulation.
• Deliver outcome-focused oversight which considers statutory compliance obligations, risk and performance with a safety-outcome focus. Escalate risks to the appropriate level within SARG.

About You

Essential:

• Engineering qualification, Aircraft Maintenance Engineer’s License or equivalent experience.
• Proven expert and detailed knowledge of the functioning and management of the aviation industry preferably gained by working in an aeronautically related engineering discipline.
• Proven expert and detailed knowledge of the functioning of aviation regulation gained through relevant experience within an Airworthiness Authority or Approved Organisation.
• Proven ability to monitor, guide and control technical decisions on a wide range of major safety issues.
• Able to operate in various cultural business environments at all levels.
• Capable of using experience and sound judgments.
• Ability to think laterally to identify the wider implications.
• Ability to cope concurrently with a high number of widely differing problems, with the appropriate level of input.
• Ability to understand specialist issues and modulate technical views to account for wider business and political considerations.
• Able to challenge information, propositions or assumptions affecting safety, including those of a deep technical nature, across a range of disciplines.
• Capable of making timely decisions.
• Able to decide when enough information is available to make a decision affecting safety.
• Ability to identify when to escalate issues to their Line Manager and others as appropriate.
• Confident communicator at all levels, having the ability to conduct technical conversation and engage with all stakeholders.
• Perform report writing and co-ordination of reports in support of day to day role.
• Capable to use multiple IT systems and infrastructure in order to fulfil the objectives of their day to day role.
• Maintains exemplary behaviours in line with the CAA’s core values.

Desirable:

• Applications where candidates have Production and Design backgrounds would also be considered

Travel

• Travel within the UK and wider afield dependent on business activities will be required and the ability to travel to remote locations within the UK.

Additional Information

For many appointments within the CAA, these roles require access to operationally sensitive infrastructure and/or Nationally Protected information. For these roles the post