OB Collective
Senior UAS / BVLOS Safety & Regulatory Adviser
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Job Title: Senior UAS / BVLOS Safety & Regulatory Adviser
Company: OB Collective
About Us: OB Collective is a UK technology business working on independent verification and evidence for information moving between organisations and systems. We work primarily in regulated and public-sector environments, combining software engineering, systems assurance, and operational evidence to help organisations understand the state of information before it is relied upon.
Role Overview: We’re looking for a Senior UAS / BVLOS Safety & Regulatory Adviser for an initial six-month software-intensive technical programme.
The role provides specialist operational, safety, and regulatory expertise around future BVLOS operations. You will work alongside systems engineering, software engineering, and test and evaluation specialists to ensure that the technical work is grounded in credible UAS operating practice and that the evidence being evaluated relates to real operational decisions, hazards, and regulatory requirements.
This is not a UTM product-development or software-architecture role. We need someone who understands how BVLOS operating concepts are authorised, assessed, and operated in practice, and who can help determine when an information or evidence condition has genuine operational or safety significance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide specialist advice on BVLOS operational, safety, and regulatory practice.
- Help define representative BVLOS operating concepts, actors, responsibilities, and decision points.
- Advise on the relationship between operational information, safety decisions, and regulatory requirements.
- Support interpretation and application of UK SORA/SORA principles to relevant use cases.
- Help identify which information conditions have genuine operational or safety significance.
- Advise on contingency, abnormal, and degraded-state handling.
- Review representative failure scenarios to ensure they are operationally credible.
- Support definition of operational assumptions, constraints, and safety-relevant boundaries.
- Advise on airspace integration and interfaces between UAS operators, air navigation services, and digital airspace/UTM services.
- Contribute to regulatory, standards, and safety-requirement mapping.
- Review proposed evaluation cases and findings for operational credibility.
- Help distinguish between an evidenced information state and the operational action that an accountable operator or system may subsequently take.
- Challenge assumptions that do not reflect real UAS operating practice.
- Support the derivation of technology-neutral requirements and findings from the programme evidence.
- Contribute to workshops and reviews with technical, operational, and regulatory stakeholders.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Required Experience:
- Strong professional experience in UAS operations, aviation safety, or UAS regulation.
- Direct experience of BVLOS operations or BVLOS operating concepts.
- Practical experience of the UK Specific Category regulatory environment.
- Strong working knowledge of SORA and preferably current UK SORA.
- Experience developing, assessing, or supporting Operational Authorisations or equivalent regulatory approvals.
- Experience with operational risk assessment, safety cases, CONOPS, or operational safety documentation.
- Understanding of flight operations, contingency procedures, and degraded operating conditions.
- Ability to relate technical system behaviour and information conditions to operational consequences.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering, operational, and regulatory teams.
- Strong judgement around what evidence does and does not establish.
- Able to communicate complex safety and regulatory issues clearly to non-specialists.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Useful Experience:
- Personally leading or substantially contributing to a UK CAA BVLOS Operational Authorisation.
- UAS flight operations or remote operations centres.
- UTM, U-space, or digital airspace.
- Airspace integration.
- Detect and Avoid.
- Electronic conspicuity and surveillance.
- Air traffic management or ANSP interfaces.
- Safety Management Systems.
- Operational manuals and emergency/contingency procedures.
- Future Flight or other UK BVLOS demonstration programmes.
- Critical-infrastructure, inspection, logistics, emergency-services, or similar BVLOS operations.
- CAA, NATS, or another aviation regulator/ANSP environment.
- Positional, surveillance, or telemetry information used in operational decision-making.
- Systems engineering, V&V, or technical assurance.
Role Details:
- Duration: Six months.
- Engagement: Approximately 24-30 days across six months.
- Location: UK-based, primarily remote with occasional travel for workshops and technical activity.
- Employment Type: Outside IR35.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Location