About Airways: Our people manage New Zealand's 30 million square kms of airspace, providing air traffic control, surveillance, communication, flight inspection, mapping, and airspace design services. We work with government, regulatory authorities, airlines, airports, and the general aviation community to ensure pilots, passengers and cargo reach their destination safely.
Our Values reflect who we are and how we work together as a team, how we interact, how we make decisions and how we execute our strategy. At Airways, we put safety first, we respect each other, we aim for excellence and we celebrate success. Safety is our number one priority and is integral to everything we do.
Our organisation is made up of operational business groups that are supported by governance and corporate services functions. To learn more about our people and organisational structure, check out www.airways.co.nz/about.
About the Team: The Safety & Assurance Group is responsible for the governance and assurance of operational and organisational safety, security, risk, business improvement and auditing across Airways.
The Safety Analysis, Change & Resilience Team is responsible for security education, investigations, and reporting systems. It is also responsible for undertaking security advisory and support activity such as safety case assessment, Governance of the Change Review Board, and delivery of the Security Management Group functions for the Executive Leadership Team and the various business units. The team has undertaken a leadership role implementing best practice for measurement and monitoring of Security and Safety performance whilst ensuring compliance with relevant NZ legislation, rules and guidelines.
About the Role: Reporting to the Safety Analysis, Change and Resilience Manager, you will work across the business at all levels delivering technical leadership for security, safety change and resilience.
Other key tasks include:
SME triage of all security occurrences
Leading critical security investigations
Management of business-led security assessments and investigations by uplifting capability through education, coaching and mentoring.
Core deliverables include (but aren't limited to):
Change Review Board and Security Management Group coordination and facilitation
Security guidance to business managers utilising appropriate benchmark standards
Continuous improvement of the Airways Security Programme Design and security education
Review of security artefacts and plans
Leading security risk assessments
Integration of the NZ Government Protective Security Requirements
Deployment and assurance of the NZ Defence Force Security Practices and Procedures
Data analytics and monitoring of trends in security and safety performance.
About You: With the role incorporating interactions across a broad scope of activity extending from the front-line to the boardroom, you'll hold a high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
Additionally, you'll hold:
A tertiary degree in Security, Resilience, Risk Management, System Safety Engineering, Safety Management, Systems Auditing, Data Science or equivalent qualifications and experience
Previous proven experience (5+ years) in a security leadership role (with key safety and security deliverables to stakeholders), preferably in the area of aviation and corporate security
Experience in risk management and operational business systems auditing
Specialist knowledge and experience in aviation, for example regulatory, customs, airport, NZDF, airline or other ANSP
Demonstrated ability to connect and collaborate with operational teams, senior leaders, and executives (internally and externally), gaining their confidence and trust to identify opportunities, solve problems, reduce risk and improve business performance.
Highly beneficial:
Experience gained in a similar organisation that is of similar size (800+ employees) and complexity (SOE with multiple locations and companies)
Human Factors qualifications/training/experience
Experience in safety change management.
To Apply: Due to the security requirements of the role you must be a NZ Citizen.
If you are attentive to detail, appreciate the safety and security requirements of the aviation industry, are looking for an opportunity to expand your skills and learn in a dynamic high integrity safety-focused business, please submit your application (CV and Cover Letter) via the Airways careers website or Seek.
This role will require the successful candidate to undergo pre-employment background checks including references, drug and alcohol screening, criminal conviction, and related checks.
Application closing date is Wednesday, 20 November 2024.
At Airways, our people are at the heart of what we do to keep NZ skies safe. We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where people feel they belong and can bring their whole self to work. We currently hold the Rainbow Tick and NQTick (neurodiversity) and are working towards Gender Tick. We make our recruitment decisions based on the best candidate for the job and therefore encourage applications from diverse candidates.
Permanent Full Time
Job no: S&A - PO - AKCH
Location: Auckland, Christchurch
Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 November 2024
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