Senior Safety Engineer

Veracity Engineering is an industry leader in aviation engineering and management consulting. We apply proven principles and innovative approaches to solve tomorrow’s problems today. Since 2001, Veracity’s staff of experienced, passionate and creative professionals has provided our government and commercial clients with innovative solutions to modernize air traffic systems and advance global initiatives in safety, efficiency, and capacity.

About the role:

Veracity is looking for a highly skilled Senior System Safety Engineer to join our growing enterprise safety team. This role is integral to implementing sophisticated aviation operations, including aviation related airspace, air traffic control procedures, and automated systems used in air traffic management. As a Senior System Safety Engineer, you will participate in safety analyses and review safety assessments that conform to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety management system (SMS) policies and guidelines. The candidate should be able to contribute to the design of automation tools used for safety risk analysis. The ideal candidate will have awareness of aviation hazard and occurrence taxonomies used in incident/accident reports related to aircraft, air traffic control, and airports.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the integration of Safety Risk Management (SRM) into existing NAS changes including concepts, engineering, and document revisions using enterprise safety analysis methodologies for risk assessment and mitigation
• Support, advise, and assist FAA R&D and modernization projects by conducting SRM.
• Ability to produce technical documentation and presentations and present material to FAA senior management.
• Facilitate, if needed, the SRM decision process, including documentation development.
• Provide recommendations to management regarding SRM document review and approval.
• Interface, as requested, with management, regarding risk acceptance, SRM document approval, and other SRM-related topics.
• Participate in safety-related meetings across FAA lines-of-business.
• Participate in SRM panels, Safety Case Lead deliberations and Safety Strategy Meetings.
• Be aware of NAS safety in daily work responsibilities and report conditions that may affect NAS safety to the Manager, Enterprise Safety and Information Security Division.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in aviation safety or air traffic management.
• Familiarity with the use of MS Office Suite including MS Access and Visio
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• A Master’s or MBA may be substituted for Bachelor's degree and 3 years of experience.
• A PhD in a related field may be substituted for Bachelor's degree and 7 years of experience.

Required Skills:

• Excellent technical writing and communication skills, with the ability to clearly present findings and articulate complex safety issues.
• Understanding of US airspace operations.
• Hold or be eligible to obtain a public trust suitability
• Familiarity with ICAO and FAA SMS policies and guidance materials.
• Familiarity with federal aviation regulations, including Title 14 and 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Data Analytics applied to aviation accident and incident reports
• Experience with the use of AI/ML tools including LLMs
• Experience using quantitative risk analysis tools and frameworks
• FAA pilot rating
• Training in decision science, decision analysis, or actuarial science
• Modeling and simulation training or qualifications/certifications in System Modeling Language (SysML) using tools such as System Architect or Cameo

At Veracity, we want our employees to excel and grow professionally. With an emphasis on continuing education, we demonstrate our commitment to employee growth and development by providing tuition reimbursement for education and certifications. In addition to tuition reimbursement, we offer one of the best benefits packages in the industry: competitive health benefits package, paid time off, 401K matching and vested from day one to name just a few of our benefits and perks.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements (Standard for all U.S. Positions)

• Interested candidates must submit an application and resume/CV online to be considered.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation; any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the U.S. For U.S. employment opportunities, Veracity hires U.S. citizens, permanent residents, asylees, refugees, and temporary residents. Temporary residence does not include those with non-immigrant work authorization (F, J, H, or L visas), such as students in practical training status. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Veracity will require proof of work authorization.
• Must be willing to execute Veracity’s Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement which requires, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure

Veracity believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate against nor favor any applicant because of race, sex, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, age, marital status, veteran status, gender, gender identity/expression, actual or perceived sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Veracity will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Seniority Level

• Mid-Senior level

Industry

• Airlines and Aviation
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

Employment Type

• Full-time

Job Functions

• Engineering

Skills

• Presentations
• System Safety
• FAA
• Flight Safety
• Safety Management Systems
• Federal Aviation Regulations
• Information Security
• Document Review
• Traffic Control
• Aviation