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EU Head of Regulatory Approvals, Drone Delivery, EU/UK Regulatory Affairs

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About the role

Prime Air role focused on securing EU regulatory approvals to enable drone delivery in Europe. Lead end-to-end EU regulatory approval programme, act as primary contact with EU aviation authorities (EASA and national authorities), and own both operational and airworthiness aspects of drone delivery authorisations across EU sites with aim to scale across Member States.

Responsibilities

  • Own Operational Authorisation and airworthiness applications for EU site approvals, from scoping to grant.
  • Build and own relationships with EU National Aviation Authorities; sign submissions and represent Prime Air in authority meetings.
  • Act as Prime Air's EU airworthiness point of contact to EASA, coordinating with Regulatory Affairs and Engineering on design validation inputs (Design Verification Report, type validation, system-level airworthiness).
  • Own the complete application package and its submission for every EU site, integrating airspace and air risk work delivered by the EU Regulatory Affairs Specialist.
  • Own the SORA safety case: ground risk assessment, SAIL determination, Operational Safety Objective compliance and environmental evaluations per application.
  • Manage in-country regulatory consultants for local-language filing, safety-case drafting and authority logistics, owning accountability that consultants cannot.
  • Build the evidence base and authority track record to position Prime Air for a Light UAS Operator Certificate (LUC) and scaled operations across Member States.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related technical field
  • Experience in program or project management
  • Can work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver on projects and tasks
  • Experience with high-level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management
  • Extensive experience working directly with an EU National Aviation Authority on Operational Authorisations, type certification, airworthiness or operational approval project
  • Working knowledge of the EU UAS framework (2019/947 and 2019/945), SORA methodology, Operational Authorisations and U-Space, and the associated acceptable means of compliance and guidance material.

Skills

Required:Bachelor's degree in related technical fieldRegulatory approvals and liaison with aviation authoritiesProject/program management
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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