About this Opportunity

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding career opportunity, working in an exciting role where no two days are the same?

The Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section (RFDSSE) has a unique opportunity to make impactful change as we seek to appoint a Principal Advisor Aviation Safety.

As our Principal Advisor Aviation Safety, you will play a vital role in our organisation to ensure we identify and manage aviation safety risks by leading risk and assurance activities, developing training and safety promotional initiatives, as well as fostering and enabling a continuous improvement culture by supporting the Aviation teams.

Reporting directly to the Head of Risk and Assurance, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Lead and conduct risk and safety assurance activities including:
• Triage of occurrence reports and event reviews
• Performing aviation investigations and audits to identify opportunities for improvement and to strengthen risk controls
• Administration of the Aviation Supplier Approval Program
• Identification of potential risks to operations and work collaboratively with stakeholders to minimise these risks
• Develop and deliver training and safety promotion initiatives
• Assist in our ongoing development of the Flight Data Analysis Program
• Support emergency response and business continuity activities

About You

As our Principal Advisor Aviation Safety you will demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills having the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders, be reliable and responsive with a can-do attitude, present with energy and strong motivation, demonstrate initiative and strong decision-making capabilities with an ability to work unsupervised, and work to always uphold our values through acting ethically and professionally.

You will additionally present with the pre-requisites of:

• Technical and/or further education qualifications in either Aviation, Quality Management, Safety Management, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Demonstrated experience conducting safety investigations, including an understanding of human factors and non-technical skills.
• Demonstrated experience conducting system audits and preferably hold a lead auditor qualification.
• Understanding of Engineering, Airworthiness and Flight Operations principles, practices and regulations.
• Advanced computer skills in the use of Microsoft Office applications.

About The Royal Flying Doctor Service

The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS) is one of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world. Using the latest in aviation, medical and communications technology, we deliver vital 24-hour emergency and primary health care services to those who live, work and travel in rural and remote communities. To learn more about RFDSSE visit our website onhttps://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/nswact/

The role can be located in:

• Sydney;
• Dubbo; or
• Broken Hill.

The choice is yours!

Our Benefits

As part of our valued team at the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section, you can expect to be provided with a challenging, interesting working environment, whilst always being supported to achieve your best.

In addition, we also offer:

• An attractive remuneration package
• Generous annual salary packaging options to reduce your taxable income (potentially increasing your take home pay by 10%)
• Hybrid working to be considered in line with our Hybrid Working Policy
• Fitness Passport
• A rewarding opportunity to become apart of an iconic organisation

Interested in Joining Us?

Apply online today at our website www.flyingdoctor.org.au/careers, ensuring you include your Cover Letter and CV.

Further Information

For more information about the Principal Advisor Aviation Safety position please contact: Head of Risk and Assurance, William Kerr at William.Kerr@rfdsse.org.au.

Our Values of Reliability, Care, Trust and Safety shape the way we work as individuals, as team members and with the communities we serve.

The RFDS (South Eastern Section) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

The RFDSSE aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible.  This means that we will close advert as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.