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 trade to satisfy the best security requirements, and we satisfaction ourselves on our capability to adapt to the continually evolving aviation setting.

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 on the lookout for two individuals 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, information/danger evaluation or just drones generally, who is worked up by the thought of becoming a member of a totally new workforce and serving to to form it because the perform matures. Prior expertise working in an MSA perform will not be 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’s non-compliance. This may contain executing the surveillance and management of merchandise positioned on or getting into the market below UK Regulation (EU) 2019/945. As well as, the MSA perform is answerable for implementing and overseeing the conformity evaluation framework within the UK, making certain producers exhibit compliance with designated requirements relevant for sophistication marked RPAS (Remotely Piloted Plane Techniques).

Core Accountabilities

Market Surveillance and Monitoring:

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

Threat Evaluation and Product Investigations:

• Delivering danger assessments and overseeing product investigations to assemble proof on whether or not corrective actions or product remembers are required to alleviate well being and security dangers.
• Updating procedures, coverage and steerage consistent with the Safty and Airspace Regulation Group (SARG) Administration System.
• Reviewing and analysing a variety of inner and exterior information sources to substantiate the proof introduced within the danger 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 way of the product evaluations.
• Liaising with financial operators to establish and agree on proportionate corrective motion measures to resolve RPAS product considerations.
• Managing and overseeing communication of the corrective motion measures to related stakeholders, together with inner CAA groups, financial operators, RPAS customers, public, DfT and Border Power, 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 adjustments associated to class marking and market surveillance if required, to strengthen the effectiveness of the regulatory framework for RPAS.
• Collaborating with inner 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 danger evaluation frameworks.
• Buyer-centric mindset.
• In a position to stand floor on key selections and keen and capable of positively problem stakeholders in any respect ranges.
• Skill to work below strain.
• Distinctive communication abilities.
• A supply and outcomes focussed mindset.
• A programme mindset, and the power to work inside and handle advanced mission plans.
• Expertise to affect and work inside a various workforce.
• Information of the CAA and the setting by which it operates.
• Stakeholder administration expertise – confirmed expertise of working with tact and diplomacy and with a various group of stakeholders. Robust expertise and functionality in managing relationships with stakeholders in any respect ranges.
• Influencing and negotiation abilities of a excessive order might be essential to make sure the proper outcomes are achieved with the power to speak clearly and successfully.
• Expertise in making tough selections for the great of a coverage positions or related tasks – even when it goes in opposition to the established order.

What Can We Provide You?

The RPAS trade is a wholesome, quick paced and extremely revolutionary section. If you’re the sort of person who enjoys a broad spectrum of novel and thrilling challenges, then this can be a phenomenal workforce and time to affix. In the event you really feel you’ve got the data base to contribute, then this position provides you a incredible alternative to be instrumental to this burgeoning trade’s improvement and success.

Further Info

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

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

If you don’t meet these necessities, we might not be capable of settle for your software.

For extra info 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 staff. If invited for interview you may be requested to finish a declaration of curiosity.

Relocation & Property

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

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

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 are going to 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 have a good time 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 might be assured an interview.

Our Advantages

We provide a variety of wonderful advantages comparable to:

• Versatile & hybrid working preparations out there
• 28 days annual depart + public holidays (extra 5 days depart 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 fitness center at Gatwick or discounted fitness center membership for London
• EV charging factors
• Worker Improvement programs internally and through Skillsoft

Our Values

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Closing Date: Friday sixth June 2025

Interview Date: w/c sixteenth June 2025

We reserve the proper to shut this emptiness early if we obtain enough purposes for the position. Subsequently, in case you are , please submit your software as early as potential.

No recruitment businesses please.

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