Job Purpose
We currently have an exciting opportunity for the role of Senior Vice President - Group Safety to join our team. As the successful candidate, your primary responsibilities include developing, leading, and implementing a comprehensive Safety Management System tailored to the diverse needs of the Emirates Group. Your goal is to foster a safety-conscious culture and ensure continuous improvement in safety standards. You will also oversee the execution of safety audits, workplace safety oversight, safety investigations, and risk management strategies, positioning our company as a leader in safety excellence. This includes managing safety analysis and trending, safety advice, training, and promotion to ensure the highest standards are maintained.
In this role, you will:
- Oversee comprehensive and expeditious investigations of accidents or incidents, in order to determine the facts and make pertinent recommendations to avoid recurrence.
- Ensure regular safety audits and oversight reviews are conducted in all relevant operational and non-operational areas of the group, including third party suppliers and agents, where applicable.
- Ensure all accident, incident, safety audit and adverse trend reports are recorded, classified and analysed so that needed actions are brought to the attention of line management and addressed in a timely manner.
- Communicate appropriate information to Group senior management and, in particular, the Management Safety Review Committee, and departmental Safety Boards, to ensure that they are fully aware of significant safety concerns and levels of risk.
- Ensure that the safety awareness of all employees is constantly raised in order to highlight safety issues and develop a proactive reduction in risk.
- Act as the primary contact with external safety agencies, within the UAE GCAA, IATA, plus other international regulatory authorities and industry safety groups.
- Ensure employees are effectively performance managed, including through application of the corporate Performance Matters (PM!) process and the completion of quality and timely PM! reviews and actioning of development plans. Manage the team's performance through coaching, encouraging staff development and progression, and motivate the team by role modelling leadership and team-working behaviours.
- Develop and provide a safety strategy to protect the Group's interests, including customers, staff, property, investments, business diversification, partnerships and network expansion, with a goal of consistently protecting people and assets by avoiding accidents and incidents.
- Lead the development and implementation of comprehensive and relevant safety policies for business processes, individual workplace activities, the utilisation of assets and environmental compliance.
- Promote a continuously improving culture of safety, with the open reporting of safety deficiencies and human factors issues.
- Ensure overall preparedness by outstations and the hub to manage contingencies. This includes presence of updated contingency plans (which are integrated with the local authorities and the local police), regular audits, a well-equipped incident command centre, training sessions and refreshers on contingency response plans provided to airport staff as well as volunteers and all manuals are up-to-date.
Qualifications & Experience
To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:
- A completed Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) or ATPL with Safety related qualification preferred.
- 15+ years experience in Flight Safety/Ground Safety/Corporate.
- Possess a strong aviation background with civil or military pilot experience Safety/Incident Investigation
- The Post Holder must also hold or have held, an Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL).
- Be a Qualified / trained as an Aircraft Accident Investigator.
- Experience of flying in command of civil jet transport aircraft.
- The post holder must have completed formalised Safety Management System (SMS) Training.
- Prior experience as a manager within a Flight Operations department, of which a substantial period should have been in a Flight Safety role.
- Prior experience of managing large teams.
- Up-to-date knowledge of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Safety - Management Manual (Doc 9859 and Annex 19) as well as
- National Aviation SMS Regulations including UAE GCAA Car Part X.
- Meet the requirements of the UAE legislation for Post Holder at 2.1.3.1 UAE GCAA Car Part X
- Experience and a working knowledge of wider safety management (Fire Safety, Workplace Health and Safety etc.)
Leadership role: Yes
Salary & Benefits
Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That's on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it's like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers
