Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist - Engineering in London

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

Closing Date: Wednesday 8th July 2026

Purpose of the Job

Act as deputy to the Principal Specialist, Regulatory Compliance, providing independent verification of compliance claims supporting the deployment of operational change. Apply strong engineering judgement and change management expertise to reduce risk and cost associated with the introduction of new or modified systems. Enable the safe and timely deployment of changes by independently verifying compliance arguments within regulatory and assurance documentation, which are mandatory prerequisites for entry into service.

Principal Accountabilities

• Ensure the organisation maintains robust evidence that operational systems comply with applicable UK and EU regulatory requirements, applying established processes to ensure submissions to regulatory authorities are accurate, complete, and timely.
• Analyse legislation, regulation, and associated technical specifications to identify compliance risks and impacts. Communicate findings clearly across the organisation and upscale concerns to the Principal Specialist, Regulatory Compliance.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to accountable managers, project teams, and technical specialists on regulatory interpretation, standards application, and internal assurance processes.
• Support the ongoing monitoring and management of organisational compliance with applicable regulatory frameworks, ensuring risks are identified, documented, and actively managed.
• Monitor relevant external standards and regulatory developments, assess their applicability, and ensure impacted areas of the business are informed.
• Maintain internal compliance repositories, registers, libraries, guidance material, and external standards subscriptions.
• Deliver training and awareness activities on relevant legislation, regulation, standards, and internal compliance processes.
• Liaise with regulatory authorities and external oversight bodies to seek clarification, agree compliance approaches, and support effective regulatory engagement.

Autonomy

Operate with minimal supervision, working in close coordination with the Principal Specialist, Regulatory Compliance. Escalate by exception to senior leadership for high-risk issues or matters with significant strategic, resource, or schedule implications.

Job Scope

In support of the principal accountabilities, the role will:

• Analyse legislation, regulation and technical specifications to support queries and identify risks.
• Provide independent compliance verification for operational change.
• Influence and challenge stakeholders across engineering, operational, and management functions, and liaise with regulatory authorities.

Experience, Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in an engineering or technical discipline, or recognised structured engineering training, with substantial relevant professional experience.
• Significant experience working with complex engineered systems in a regulated or safety-critical environment.
• Significant knowledge of Air Traffic Management and the associated systems.
• Significant knowledge of applicable regulatory frameworks, legislation, and standards at national and international levels.
• Experience with change management, requirements, assurance, and compliance documentation across system lifecycles.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with managers, technical specialists, regulators, and external bodies on complex technical and regulatory matters.
• Personally credible, confident, and professional, with the ability to influence, challenge constructively, and engage effectively at all levels of the organisation.

Additional Information

We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally. We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely. We also welcome discussions on flexible and part-time working arrangements.

If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.