SMS Safety Specialist - Training & Promotion

Job Description Summary

Are you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You'll be part of a team that embraces your drive, your curiosity, and your unique ideas and perspectives. Most importantly, you'll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world!

The SMS Safety Specialist - Training & Promotion drives Safety Management System (SMS) capability across GE Aerospace by designing, delivering, and continuously improving safety training and promotion programs. This role owns eLearning strategy and content development to scale safety knowledge, reinforce just culture, and enhance hazard awareness enterprise-wide-supporting measurable improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC).

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop SMS eLearning: Design, author, and maintain engaging eLearning modules covering SMS principles, hazard identification, risk assessment, safety reporting, safety assurance, and safety promotion aligned to aviation regulatory requirements and company standards.
• Lead Training Programs: Build blended learning solutions (eLearning, virtual instructor-led training, microlearning, job aids) tailored for engineering, operations, services, MRO, supply chain, and functional teams.
• Safety Promotion Campaigns: Plan and execute recurring safety promotion initiatives (newsletters, videos, toolbox talks, posters, internal social) to reinforce leading indicators, lessons learned, and just culture behaviors.
• Content Governance: Establish and maintain a content lifecycle, version control, and refresh cadence; partner with SMEs to ensure technical accuracy, traceability to standards, and audit readiness.
• Learning Analytics: Define success metrics, dashboards, and reporting for training effectiveness (Kirkpatrick levels, completion, knowledge retention, behavior change, leading/lagging safety metrics); translate insights into course improvements.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with Safety, Quality, operations leaders, functional training teams, and communications to align curricula to business risks and readiness needs.
• Continuous Improvement: Apply Lean learning design principles to reduce waste in training delivery, simplify user experience, and accelerate time-to-competence.
• Regulatory Alignment: Ensure SMS training aligns with applicable aviation regulations and standards (e.g., ICAO Annex 19, EASA Part-ORO, FAA 14 CFR Part 5) and supports internal audit and external oversight needs.
• Incident-to-Learning: Convert events, findings, and safety observations into timely, targeted microlearning and refreshers; support safety stand-downs and readiness campaigns.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design, Learning Sciences, Aviation Safety, Human Factors OR Engineering
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in SMS, aviation safety, OR safety-critical industries with a focus on training and promotion

Desired Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of SMS components: Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, Safety Promotion
• Strong instructional design capability (ADDIE, SAM) and adult learning principles; portfolio of eLearning/microlearning deliverables
• Proven ability to translate complex safety topics into clear, engaging training for technical and non-technical audiences
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills across functions and levels
• Aviation/industrial safety background with exposure to engineering, manufacturing, MRO, or field service environments
• Credentials such as CSP, CFIOSH, ASQ, or aviation safety certificates; human factors or HOP (Human and Organizational Performance) experience
• Experience creating accessible content (WCAG) and localizing training for global audiences
• Data storytelling skills using tools like Power BI or Tableau; experience with xAPI Learning Record Stores (LRS)
• Familiarity with just culture models, event learning, and behavior-based safety practices

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes