Airworthiness Compliance Manager

Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Establish, maintain and continuously improve the TC/TSO compliance management system: checklist structures, evidence indexing, templates and documentation standards.
• Own the master compliance checklists (TC and TSO as applicable), including update rules, closure criteria, and traceability (requirement ↔ means of compliance ↔ evidence).
• Define and operate compliance review gates (e.g., evidence quality gate, CVE-readiness gate, submission readiness gate), including entry/exit criteria and records.
• Plan compliance deliverables with program teams and coordinate cross-discipline closure sequencing and dependencies.
• Ensure package integrity: correct effectivity/configuration statements, required signatures present, and evidence coherence prior to internal release or authority submission.
• Maintain compliance readiness metrics and dashboards (closure status, aging actions, risk to LOI/submissions, rework indicators) and provide regular management reporting.
• Identify compliance risks early (traceability gaps, missing evidence routes, inconsistent interpretations) and drive corrective actions, escalation and recovery plans where needed.
• Facilitate alignment between Airworthiness Specialists/engineering teams and CVEs to ensure evidence is technically mature and verification-ready.
• Exercise the authority to stop internal release/submission when compliance integrity, completeness, or traceability requirements are not met.
• Support close-out readiness by confirming compliance packs are complete, properly controlled, and ready for release/submission in accordance with internal procedures.

Qualifications And Experience

• Engineering degree (aerospace, mechanical, electrical or equivalent) or comparable aviation technical qualification.
• Demonstrated experience in airworthiness compliance management and certification documentation control for aircraft/UAS and approved articles (TC/TSO environments).
• Solid knowledge of GCAA CAR 21 / EASA Part 21 certification deliverables and structure/logic of compliance demonstration (evidence planning, traceability, closure discipline).
• Proven capability to define and enforce documentation s
• Strong traceability and configuration mindset; ability to ensure evidence-to-configuration/effectivity coherence in coordination with configuration management.
• Experience building and maintaining compliance checklists/evidence indexes and driving closure reporting (KPIs, dashboards, readiness metrics).
• Able to challenge evidence quality and require corrective actions, including holding releases when criteria are not satisfied.
• Strong stakeholder coordination skills across engineering disciplines, test/flight test, program management, CVEs and authority liaison.
• High standard of written communication and structured documentation; able to produce clear, defensible compliance status reporting.
• Understanding of safety and human factors principles appropriate to the role and responsibilities (risk-based prioritization and escalation behaviors).