Safety & Compliance Manager

Reach Beyond: CHC provides unmatched helicopter services that enable our customers to reach beyond - to work in remote and challenging destinations that limit others - and come home safely. We are dedicated to our purpose of getting our customers where they need to be, when they need to be there, anywhere in the world - safely and reliably. All you have to do is get on board

At CHC, we pride ourselves on our values and culture:
**Accountability**: Take pride and ownership of our actions and results.
**Collaboration**: Working together with transparency and trust to drive continuous improvement.
**Care**: Creating a safe and sustainable environment for all.
**Integrity**: Doing what's right and fostering a culture of respect.
**Excellence**: Prioritizing quality services and setting industry standards.
Role Summary:
**OSA Opportunity**

**Safety and Compliance Manager**

**(Perth Based)**

This role reports directly to the Sr. Manager, Safety & Compliance - APAC.

It is responsible for leading the safety and compliance department and must provide safety and compliance guidance to both the local management team and the corporate organization.

Key Responsibilities:
Safety & Compliance duties:

- Liaise with customers and vendors on quality matters
- Liaise with the regulator on safety and quality matters
- Responsible for the organization’s quality audit program
- Ensure that issues affecting quality are investigated, tracked, and monitored
- Ensure all findings are monitored and that corrective and preventive actions are completed
- Influence the business to address quality and product safety issues
- Ensure compliance with the organization’s Safety Management System
- Monitor all pertinent proactive and reactive safety reports and, where necessary, ensure appropriate support to deliver follow-up action is taken.
- Manage the certification authorities (MCA) by policies and procedures
- Ensure that Service Difficulty Reports are submitted to the regulatory authorities.
- Responsible for the monitoring and updating of the SMS database

Regulatory Compliance duties:

- Responsible to the Accountable Manager for safety
- Act as the primary liaison between the company and regulatory authorities
- Ensure that compliance documentation and certificates meet regulatory requirements and business needs
- Ensure that the quality audit plan covers all activities under the scope of approval of the organization and escalates issues that require management intervention

Health, Environment, Safety and Security duties:

- Oversee HESS compliance and ensure safety promotion & legislative requirements are met
- Monitor and oversee the Emergency Response Plan

May include other duties as required

Qualifications, Skills & Attributes:
**Required Qualifications (**Education, Qualifications, Certifications)

**Essential**
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in an operational environment
- Accredited training in aviation safety management disciplines
- Incident investigator qualification
- Lead auditor qualification
- Possess or have held professional aviation accreditations such as pilot licenses, maintenance engineer licenses, responsible person approval from an NAA
- Ability to travel internationally:

- University degree or aviation trade in a technical discipline

**Skills/Experience: (Essential)**-
- Working knowledge of quality tools and ICAO Annex 19
- Knowledge of regulations applicable to the organization
- Experience as part of or leading an incident investigation
- Knowledge of MS Office Software
- Experience with SMS

**Skills/Experience: (Desirable)**
- Demonstrated experience in the rotary wing air operator environment.
- Demonstrated experience in fixed-wing or general aviation environments.
- Demonstrated experience in Health, Safety and Environmental Management

**Attributes/Behaviours**:

- Self-motivated and results-oriented with a focus on the delivery of safety
- Excellent listening, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills
- Ability to work in a rapidly evolving and dynamic environment
- Demonstrated team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to participate and deliver outcomes within a team of aviation professionals
- Demonstrated leadership and motivational skills