Aviation Safety Manager

TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. Within TUI Group, TUI Airline regroups all airline activities across UK, Nordics, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Morocco, France, and the Dutch Antilles. The Aviation Safety Manager is the Safety Manager for the AOC, the ATO and the CAMO. The function holds the primary responsibility for enabling the airline, ATO, and CAMO organisations to identify, understand and address all aviation safety risks associated with commercial airline operations. The Safety, Compliance and AOC function, within which the Aviation Safety Manager sits, operates as a multi-disciplinary team of experts driving efficiency and innovation.

As Aviation Safety Manager, your focus will be to support, facilitate and lead the implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of TUI Airways safety management system, fostering an organisational safety culture for an effective safety management, risk management and occurrence reporting. As this role is ‘the face of safety’ in the airline, ATO and CAMO, the role requires an individual who can bring both technical expertise and leadership capability to all situations; a leader who provides an accessible and positive central point of contact, who can marshal understanding and action, and who has a high degree of motivation to drive forward safety performance improvements.

In this role, you’ll report to the Accountable Manager.

ABOUT OUR OFFER

• Personal benefits: Attractive remuneration, discretionary bonus schemes, generous travel benefits, extensive health & well-being support, and more.
• Flexible working: Work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with a dynamic working environment.
• A career to shape: Access the TUI Learning Hub to level-up and reach your ambitions.
• Broaden your network: We champion intercultural collaboration and provide opportunities to work on global projects and teams
• Community: Get involved with incredible local charity and sustainability initiatives like the TUI Care Foundation.

ABOUT THE JOB

As Aviation Safety Manager you’ll be responsible for:

• Acting as the focal point and be responsible for the development, administration, maintenance and continuous improvement of TUI Airways integrated and effective safety management system within the AOC, the ATO and the CAMO
• Leadership, management and direction of the Emergency Response Planning function within the airline, ATO and CAMO
• Facilitating hazard identification, risk analysis and management including MOC by implementing the necessary processes and training
• Ensure the running and continuous improvement of the SMS Training programme across the organisations
• The delivery of the FDM programme
• Monitoring the implementation of actions taken to mitigate risks
• Ensure initiation and follow-up of internal occurrence/accident investigations
• Promoting a positive safety culture
• Acting as an SME in Safety, Safety management, and Human Factors
• Leading and mentoring the Safety Team

ABOUT YOU

• Development and continuous improvement of the Safety Management System, working closely with Group AOC colleagues to harmonise processes and procedures and develop a single TUI Group SMS
• Satisfy the regulatory requirement for the Safety Manager function within the Air Ops and CAMO regulations
• Ability to work within a multi-national team, with an understanding of cultural differences and an adaptable leadership style to build productive working relationships.
• 5 years of relevant work experience, of which at least 2 years should be from the aeronautical industry in an appropriate position
• A relevant engineering degree or an aircraft maintenance technician qualification with additional education that is acceptable to the competent authority
• Knowledge and understanding of ICAO standards and European and National requirements and provisions on safety management
• Knowledge and understanding of safety investigation techniques and root cause methodologies, management systems, including compliance monitoring, human factors
• Relevant and documented work experience, in a comparable position
• Strong people management skills and experience of leading a team
• Knowledge of safety management systems and their application in a commercial environment
• Knowledge of risk management and its application in a commercial environment
• Great technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and self-motivate
• Interpersonal, influencing and leadership skills
• Organised with great attention to detail
• Ability to plan, prioritise and balance a variety of work
• Resilience in operationally demanding times
• Highly computer literate
• Excellent written and oral communications
• Knowledge of systems and database management
• Professional integrity

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From a workplace to a place to belong. At TUI we embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, encouraging everyone to come as you are, because together, our potential is limitless.

We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities and impairments so if you require any support, please do let us know.

SECURITY CLEARANCE STATEMENT

At TUI, safety is our top priority. We conduct thorough background checks on all employees who join our Airline.

Rest assured; we’ll guide you on the necessary information you need to provide at each stage. 

Please note that if you are applying for a role in the UK, you must ensure you can provide a full 5 years referencing, plus a criminal record check for all countries you’ve resided in for more than 6 months in the past 5 years.