Assistant Manager – Flight Test & Operations Safety

Role Summary

The Assistant Manager Flight Test & Flight Operations Safety will lead operational risk management on the flight line ground test rigs (iron-bird/tethered) and during experimental flight test campaigns.

Qualifications & Skills

• Mandatory Qualifications: B.E./ in Aerospace Aeronautical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent qualification/experience in Military aviation. Certification in Aviation Incident Investigation is highly desirable.
  

• Mandatory Experience: 5 years in airfield operations experimental aircraft flight testing or flight line ground operations safety.
  

• Preferred Experience: Experience in experimental flight test safety management drone/eVTOL test bed oversight or military flight line operations.
  

• Primary Skills: Flight-line hazard evaluation pre-flight safety risk assessments ground test rig safety (iron-bird/tethered setups) airfield crash rescue coordination emergency preparedness.
  

• Secondary Skills: Operational Risk Management (ORM) human factors evaluation telemetry monitoring procedures safety briefing execution.
  

Key Responsibilities

• Lead pre-flight safety risk assessments and hazard evaluations for ground rig runs tethered tests and experimental flight sorties.
  

• Establish flight-line standard operating procedures (SOPs) clearance zones and safe perimeters during active engine or propulsion runs.
  

• Coordinate flight-line emergency response teams Crash Fire Rescue (CFR) protocols and airfield emergency response strategies.
  

• Conduct flight safety briefings for ground crews pilots/operators and test engineers prior to test execution.
  

• Investigate flight operations near-misses or incidents and implement corrective action reports to enhance operational safety.