When it comes to making low-cost travel easy, safe and reliable, there is no team more critical than Engineering & Maintenance. As our Engineering Safety Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the safety and reliability of our operations, safeguarding our customers, and helping us maintain the highest technical reliability of any Airbus fleet in the world. Through your expertise and leadership in safety management, you’ll help us continue to set the standard for engineering excellence across the industry.

The Engineering Safety Manager is responsible for promoting, facilitating and monitoring the effective delivery of safety management across Engineering and Maintenance, ensuring that easyJet remains an industry leader in engineering safety. Providing expert advice and guidance on safety matters across our network, the role ensures the effective delivery of safety risk management across engineering, leading investigations, providing risk assessment and conducting safety data analysis.

Everyone at easyJet shares the ‘Orange Spirit’, and within Engineering & Maintenance that means working with people who collaborate, are approachable, are incredibly diverse and inclusive, stand up to be counted, and have your back ­ And as well a rock solid commitment to your ongoing development and training, we can also offer you lots of other benefits including bonuses, share schemes, and of course discounts on flights and holidays.

Your Mission:

As the Engineering Safety Manager, you’ll play a critical role in promoting, facilitating, and monitoring the effective delivery of safety management across Engineering and Maintenance. Your expertise will ensure easyJet remains an industry leader in engineering safety, providing expert advice and guidance on safety matters across our network. You’ll lead investigations, provide risk assessments, and conduct safety data analysis to drive a culture of safety excellence.

What Your Day Will Look Like:

·       Provide Expert Support: Offer subject matter expertise and support to Engineering & Maintenance (E&M) management on safety and risk management.

·       Drive Safety Training & Standards: Ensure training and investigation techniques align with the company’s safety management and investigation manuals.

·       Lead Investigations: Conduct investigations into significant events to ensure lessons are learned and improvements are implemented.

·       Monitor Safety Performance

·       Prepare and run monthly E&M Safety Action Group (SAG) meetings.

·       Identify notable events and provide summaries and updates on investigations.

·       Represent E&M: Act as the E&M safety representative at significant meetings, including the SMS Steering Group, ensuring coordination across easyJet.

·       Oversee Risk Management: Conduct Operational Readiness activities, maintain the departmental risk register, and ensure risk management aligns with easyJet’s processes.

·       Collaborate on Projects: Work on multiple projects in parallel, engaging with relevant departments across the business.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

·       Industry Knowledge: A good understanding of EASA & CAA continuing airworthiness regulations.

·       Investigation Expertise: Ideally, completed an investigator’s course with a proven track record in delivering safety improvements and organisational change in a complex, multi-site aviation environment.

·       Project Management: Proven experience in managing and implementing projects successfully.

·       Communication & Influence: Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to present technical issues clearly to senior management.

·       Safety Champion: A strong advocate for safety with the ability to challenge the status quo and embed safety principles into day-to-day operations.

·       Resilience Under Pressure: Able to meet tight deadlines, with the tenacity and resilience to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

·       Training Experience: Experience in delivering training is preferred.

·       Technical Proficiency: IT literate, with strong Microsoft Office skills and detailed knowledge of AMOS.

What you’ll get in return

·       Competitive base salary

·       Up to 20% bonus

·       25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

·       BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes

·       7% pension

·       Life Assurance

·       Flexible benefits package

·       Excellent staff travel benefits

Location & Hours of Work

This full-time role will be based at Luton and will be 40 hours per week. The role will require travel between other part 145 bases in the easyJet network.

We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds as part of our ongoing commitment to having a team that truly represents the customers that we serve . You may feel that that you don’t meet every single requirement for this role, but we’d still encourage you to submit an application if you feel you meet enough criteria to be considered. And if you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process please let us know and we’ll work with you to find a solution.

We are easyJet – a FTSE-100 listed, £multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easyJet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.

We fly more than 1,000 routes, connecting 35 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy – and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

It takes a real team effort to run an operation as big and logistically complex as ours – and regardless of where you join us, no one day will ever be the same. One thing that does stay the same though is our people. They are energised, positive, inclusive, united by purpose, ready to meet problems head-on, and they have your back. We’re here to win together. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’. It’s what makes our teams fun to be a part of and what brings us together.

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