UK CAA – Market Surveillance and Monitoring – sUAS Information

Wage: £55,000 to £65,000 (depending on expertise)

Contract Sort: Everlasting – Full time

Location: Gatwick – Hybrid

Visa Restrictions: This place doesn’t supply visa sponsorship.

We’re the UK’s aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world chief in its area. Our actions are various, enabling the aviation business to satisfy the very best security requirements, and we pleasure ourselves on our potential to adapt to the continuously evolving aviation atmosphere.

The Function

Following the announcement from the UK authorities that the CAA has been named because the MSA (Market Surveillance Authority) for Open Class Drones, the CAA is now searching for two folks to tackle the position of MSA Specialists. That is an thrilling alternative for somebody with a background in investigation, enforcement, product security, high quality assurance, knowledge/threat evaluation or just drones normally, who is worked up by the concept of becoming a member of a very new staff and serving to to form it because the perform matures. Prior expertise working in an MSA perform just isn’t a prerequisite.

The MSA perform will perform the actions of making certain required requirements for RPAS are met by producers and different financial operators (e.g. importers and distributors) and intervening when there may be non-compliance. This can contain executing the surveillance and management of merchandise positioned on or getting into the market underneath UK Regulation (EU) 2019/945. As well as, the MSA perform is liable for implementing and overseeing the conformity evaluation framework within the UK, making certain producers display compliance with designated requirements relevant for sophistication marked RPAS (Remotely Piloted Plane Techniques).

Core Accountabilities

Market Surveillance and Monitoring:

• Reviewing and analysing RPAS product issues submitted to the MSA from a variety of potential stakeholders, together with CAA, financial operators (e.g. producers, importers or distributors), RPAS customers, common public, Conformity Evaluation Our bodies, Division for Transport, Border Pressure, amongst others.
• Analysing traits in RPAS knowledge and CAA security intelligence knowledge to find out whether or not additional product investigations are warranted.
• Proactive product surveillance and monitoring by reviewing and analysing RPAS product data and promoting supplies to establish RPAS product issues and potential non-compliant merchandise.

Threat Evaluation and Product Investigations:

• Delivering threat assessments and overseeing product investigations to assemble proof on whether or not corrective actions or product recollects are required to alleviate well being and security dangers.
• Updating procedures, coverage and steering in keeping with the Safty and Airspace Regulation Group (SARG) Administration System.
• Reviewing and analysing a variety of inside and exterior knowledge sources to substantiate the proof offered within the threat assessments.

Corrective Motion and Product Restrictions:

• Arranging and overseeing the supply of corrective actions by financial operators ought to a non-compliant RPAS product be recognized by the product evaluations.
• Liaising with financial operators to establish and agree on proportionate corrective motion measures to resolve RPAS product issues.
• Managing and overseeing communication of the corrective motion measures to related stakeholders, together with inside CAA groups, financial operators, RPAS customers, public, DfT and Border Pressure, amongst others.

MSA Coverage and Processes:

• Accountable for designing and implementing the insurance policies and processes to ship an efficient MSA and sophistication marking framework.
• Main the implementation of legislative modifications associated to class marking and market surveillance if required, to strengthen the effectiveness of the regulatory framework for RPAS.
• Collaborating with inside and exterior working teams to establish alternatives to enhance the MSA’s insurance policies and processes to unlock additional security, safety and shopper safety advantages.

About You

Minimal important necessities for the position:

• Expertise working with threat evaluation frameworks.
• Buyer-centric mindset.
• Capable of stand floor on key selections and keen and in a position to positively problem stakeholders in any respect ranges.
• Capacity to work underneath stress.
• Distinctive communication abilities.
• A supply and outcomes focussed mindset.
• A programme mindset, and the flexibility to work inside and handle advanced venture plans.
• Expertise to affect and work inside a various staff.
• Data of the CAA and the atmosphere during which it operates.
• Stakeholder administration expertise – confirmed expertise of working with tact and diplomacy and with a various group of stakeholders. Sturdy expertise and functionality in managing relationships with stakeholders in any respect ranges.
• Influencing and negotiation abilities of a excessive order shall be essential to make sure the appropriate outcomes are achieved with the flexibility to speak clearly and successfully.
• Expertise in making tough selections for the nice of a coverage positions or related tasks – even when it goes in opposition to the established order.

What Can We Supply You?

The RPAS business is a wholesome, quick paced and extremely modern section. In case you are the sort of person who enjoys a broad spectrum of novel and thrilling challenges, then it is a phenomenal staff and time to affix. In the event you really feel you might have the information base to contribute, then this position presents you a improbable alternative to be instrumental to this burgeoning business’s growth and success.

Further Data

For a lot of appointments inside the CAA, these roles require entry to operationally delicate infrastructure and/or Nationally Protected data. For these roles the submit holders should endure Nationwide Safety Vetting and obtain the suitable stage of clearance.

CTC – To be vetted we are going to often count on an affordable interval of residency within the UK in order that significant checks may be undertaken. For this position it will should be 3 years.

If you don’t meet these necessities, we might not have the ability to settle for your software.

For extra data on CTC and SC clearance please go to – Vetting defined – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The CAA values excessive moral requirements and private integrity amongst workers. If invited for interview you’ll be requested to finish a declaration of curiosity.

Relocation & Property

The CAA shall be relocating from Aviation Home (Our Gatwick Workplace) to new premises in a number of years’ time. Our transfer is pushed by strategic, operational and environmental issues.

We shall be shifting to a brand new native house, as much as a 15-mile radius of Aviation Home, to minimise disruption for our valued colleagues and clients.

We at the moment are working with colleagues and guests to know what we want in our new workplace, earlier than we begin our property search. We’ll promote Aviation Home and land, vacate the location and transfer to new premises, however we don’t count on to maneuver earlier than 2028

Inclusivity

We’re proud to be an equal alternative employer and rejoice our range making certain all are backgrounds included right here on the CAA. As a member of the Incapacity Assured scheme, candidates who meet the minimal standards for a job with us shall be assured an interview.

Our Advantages

We provide a variety of wonderful advantages resembling:

• Versatile & hybrid working preparations accessible
• 28 days annual go away + public holidays (extra 5 days go away buy scheme)
• Beneficiant pension scheme (As much as 12% employer contribution)
• Wellbeing Room at Gatwick
• Psychological Well being and Suicide First Aiders
• Worker Help Programme, speaking therapies and neurodiversity assist through Occupational Well being & entry to Headspace for colleagues and 5 dependents
• Free onsite gymnasium at Gatwick or discounted gymnasium membership for London
• EV charging factors
• Worker Growth programs internally and through Skillsoft

Our Values

Do The Proper Factor, By no means Cease Studying, Construct Collaborative Relationships, Respect Everybody – For extra data please Click on Right here

Closing Date: Friday sixth June 2025

Interview Date: w/c sixteenth June 2025

We reserve the appropriate to shut this emptiness early if we obtain enough purposes for the position. Due to this fact, in case you are , please submit your software as early as doable.

No recruitment businesses please.

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