Quality Assurance Auditor and Safety Investigator

**Quality Assurance Auditor and Safety Investigator**

**Full-Time Position**

**Saskatoon SK**

Join our aviation-passionate team based in the land of living skies, Saskatchewan, a great place to live and raise your family. We are Saskatchewan's largest full-service airline and here is your opportunity to join us and work with colleagues who will bring out the best of you. At Rise Air, we offer more than a job, we offer the opportunity to live and work in a vibrant, affordable, growing province, a positive environment, inspiring culture, strong values and career growth.

Rise Air is proudly 100 per cent Indigenous owned. We work together with our ownership, communities, stakeholders and industry partners to strengthen Indigenous employee relationships.

**Job Purpose**

Under the supervision of the Manager, Safety and Quality Systems, this position is responsible for working with multiple departments to prioritize safety and monitoring company flight operations to ensure compliance with Transport Canada approved standards. The Auditor/Inspector is responsible for conducting flight operations audits, safety investigations, making recommendations to the manager and supporting the Company in achieving the highest level of compliance and safety.

**Primary Responsibilities**

Safety Management
- Ensure compliance with all policy, procedures, standards, and regulations.
- Conduct investigations and audits and follow-up duties as assigned.
- Support facilitation of multidisciplinary sessions to identify possible contributing factors to the event being investigated.
- Monitor all employee and external reports of hazards, irregularities, incidents, violations, unusual occurrences, and other safety concerns submitted, and assign the investigation to the appropriate employee for investigation.
- Support employees in their investigations of hazards, incidents, accidents, occurrences, and make recommendations for resolution.
- Collaborate with supervisors/managers to establish corrective and preventative action plans and monitor implementation.
- Monitor the progress of investigations, corrective actions, follow-up, and communications, and report overdue actions or delinquencies to the manager, safety and quality systems.
- Collect information gained from the investigation process and compile into a final report supported by facts and data.
- Participate in providing safety management (SMS) training to employees in a timely manner including initial in-class and recurrent online training.
- Assist in gathering, producing, and maintaining records applicable to the SMS program.
- Assist in conducting internal audits in accordance with the company's audit program.
- Administer and promote the safety management program and online reporting system.
- Assist in determining the needs for, and coordinate the development of, required safety training courses in accordance with legislation and regulations.
- Prepare documentation and maintain files for SMS Committee quarterly meetings, record and distribute quarterly meeting minutes to participants following meetings.
- Assist with quality assurance functions as required.
- Participate in Occupational Health and Safety Committees (OHS) as required and assist in ensuring risk items are appropriately reviewed through the SMS.
- Review the safety risk profile, populate the hazard register, and make recommendations regarding the information collected as required.

Quality Assurance
- Conduct audits in support of the flight operations and maintenance quality assurance programs.
- Analyze and investigate all reports assigned including safety management system, incident investigation, risk assessment, and root cause determination.
- Develop and implement, in collaboration with department managers and/or manager of safety and quality systems, corrective action plans.
- Make recommendations for mitigation plans and strategies.
- Disseminate airplane safety information, both internal and external, in conjunction with the safety management system.
- Monitor and analyse trends identified in safety and quality management programs for continuous improvement.
- Communicate all compliance, efficiency, and safety discrepancies to the Manager, Safety and Quality Systems.
- Provide appropriate acknowledgement and feedback to employees who report safety or quality issues, including the results of event analysis and actions taken.

**Qualifications**

Typically, the knowledge and skills required for this position include post-secondary education in public/environmental safety or business administration from an accredited college or university, with a minimum two years' experience, preferably in an aviation setting. Training and experience in aviation risk management with a minimum of three (3) years' experience is preferred. Knowledge and understanding of Canadian Aviation Regulations and previous experience working in an aviation environment with a focus on safety management systems is an asset. A c