Senior Vice President - Group Safety

Job Purpose

Join our Group Safety team, where you will play a critical role in upholding Emirates' commitment to safety across our global network. Safety is one of our core values and the cornerstone of all our operations, ensuring the well-being of over 50 million passengers annually across more than 150 destinations. With our industry-leading services and commitment to safety excellence, you’ll be part of a team dedicated to maintaining and enhancing the highest safety standards.

If you are passionate about safety, risk management, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, we invite you to apply and contribute to the success of Emirates Group.

About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for the role of Senior Vice President – Group Safety to join our team.

As the Senior Vice President – Group Safety, your goal will be to foster a safety-conscious culture and ensure continuous improvement in safety standards, while overseeing the execution of safety audits, workplace safety oversight, safety investigations, and risk management strategies. The role aims to position our company as a leader in safety excellence and developing, leading, and implementing a comprehensive Safety Management System tailored to the diverse needs of the Emirates Group.

Investigations

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Oversee comprehensive and expeditious investigations of accidents or incidents, in order to determine the facts and make pertinent recommendations to avoid recurrence.

Audits And Reviews

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.

Events & Trends

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.

Communication & Escalation

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.

Act as the primary contact with external safety agencies, within the UAE GCAA, IATA, plus other international regulatory authorities and industry safety groups.

Risk Reduction

Ensure that the safety awareness of all employees is constantly raised in order to highlight safety issues and develop a proactive reduction in risk.

Performance Management

Ensure employees are effectively performance managed, including through application of the corporate My Business Contribution (My BC) process and the completion of quality and timely My BC 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.

Goals & Strategy

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; and incorporating predictive safety, systems improvements and AI integrations.

Policies & Business Processes

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.

Emergency Planning

Oversee overall preparedness by outstations and the hub to manage emergencies. This includes presence of updated emergency 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 emergency response plans provided to airport staff as well as volunteers and all manuals are up-to-date.

Qualification

To be considered for the role, the Post Holder must meet the following requirements:

• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) or ATPL with Safety related qualification preferred.
• Have at least 15 years’ experience in Flight Safety/Ground Safety/Corporate.
• Possess a strong aviation background with civil or military pilot experience, Safety & Incident Investigation.
• Hold or have held, an Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL).
• Be qualified / trained as an Aircraft Accident Investigator.
• Have experience flying in command of civil jet transport aircraft.
• Have completed formalised Safety Management System (SMS) Training.
• Possess prior experience as a manager within a Flight Operations department, of which a substantial period should have been in a Flight Safety role.
• Track record in managing large teams.
• Demonstrate 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-SMS.
• Meet the requirements of the UAE legislation for Post Holder.
• Have experience and a working knowledge of wider safety management (Fire Safety, Workplace Health and Safety etc.).
  
  

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.