Description

The Senior Manager, Safety Management System & Safety Culture serves as CAE's lead for the development, governance, promotion and continual improvement of the Global Safety Management System. The position is responsible for establishing and maintaining an integrated safety management framework that supports Aviation Safety; Environment Health & Safety; operational risk management, and organizational learning across Corporate, Operations, Civil and Defence & Security business units. Acting as a partner to our Operational Safety team leaders, business stakeholders and leadership, the role drives safety culture, safety promotion, reporting integrity, risk management, and safety capability development. The incumbent ensures that safety management principles are consistently embedded throughout the organization while developing CAE's long-term vision of a unified, world-class global Safety Management System. The role is positioned as the Global SMS owner and Safety Culture focal within the Global Safety & Governance department.

Description

The Senior Manager, Safety Management System & Safety Culture serves as CAE's lead for the development, governance, promotion and continual improvement of the Global Safety Management System. The position is responsible for establishing and maintaining an integrated safety management framework that supports Aviation Safety; Environment Health & Safety; operational risk management, and organizational learning across Corporate, Operations, Civil and Defence & Security business units. Acting as a partner to our Operational Safety team leaders, business stakeholders and leadership, the role drives safety culture, safety promotion, reporting integrity, risk management, and safety capability development.



The incumbent ensures that safety management principles are consistently embedded throughout the organization while developing CAE's long-term vision of a unified, world-class global Safety Management System. The role is positioned as the Global SMS owner and Safety Culture focal within the Global Safety & Governance department.

Primary Responsibilities

Safety Management System (SMS) Governance and Program Management

- Serves as the designated lead and coordinator for the Global Safety Management System (SMS), ensuring consistent application, governance, and continual improvement across Corporate, Operations, Civil and Defence & Security business units.
- Establish and maintain CAE’s overarching SMS architecture, governance model, policy framework, and supporting methodologies aligned with, and compliant to, all relevant and applicable international safety and environment management principles and standards.
- Partner with Operational Safety leaders and subject matter experts to ensure SMS processes, procedures and work instructions remain relevant, practical, operationally focused and aligned with evolving business and regulatory and certification requirements.
- Advise the Director Global Safety on SMS strategy, system maturity, emerging industry practices, and safety governance improvements.

Safety Promotion, Reporting Culture and Organizational Learning





- Lead the development, implementation, and continual improvement of the Global Safety Promotion Strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, safety priorities, organizational values, and regulatory expectations.
- Develop and oversee Global safety communication campaigns, awareness initiatives, leadership engagement programs, and learning activities that strengthen understanding of safety risks, lessons learned and organizational priorities.
- Promote and strengthen a proactive reporting culture that encourages timely identification and reporting of hazards, events, near misses, unsafe conditions, and operational concerns.
- Collaborate with the Global Operational Safety team, Corporate Communications, Business Unit leadership teams and other stakeholders to improve employee engagement and participation in safety improvement initiatives.
- Coordinate learning responses arising from investigations, hazard reports, trend analysis, audits, and significant safety events.
- Support the planning and delivery of safety engagement initiatives including safety stand-downs, leadership forums, roadshows, workshops, and safety awareness events.

Safety Risk Management

- Maintain oversight of Global safety risk management methodologies, ensuring standardized approaches to hazard identification, risk assessment, risk treatment, and management of change activities across the organization.
- Develop and maintain a safety risk taxonomy, classification framework, and risk profiling methodology to support consistent analysis, decision-making and alignment with the Corporate Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) system.
- Collaborate with Operational Secure

📌 Senior Manager, Safety Management System (Montreal)
🏢 CAE
📍 Montreal