Hours: 37.5 Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid working with 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: Sunday, 26th February 2025
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
Join our team of forward-thinkers who approach the world with a different lens. We value individuals who are vocal about driving positive change and are willing to dive into both big and small tasks. If you're ready to take your career to new heights, this opportunity is for you.
The role of Surveyor – Quality Assurance is to ensure that Virgin Atlantic Airways maintains its operation to the highest possible airworthiness standards as required by the company, CAA, FAA, EASA, EU-OPS and IOSA. This will be achieved by performing global surveillance and audits over the entire spectrum of the company’s (and third-party contracting companies) aircraft engineering and maintenance, flight operations and ground operations activities.
- Compliance Management - Ensuring that all regulatory and legal requirements, statutory responsibilities, and directives pertaining to the airline's operations are in compliance. Responsible to the UKCAA for all Safety & Security regulations.
- Audits and Reviews - Carry out oversight activity to identify non-conformities, risks, drive mitigation and assure the airlines Safety & Security.
- Business Support - Identify complexity, inefficiencies and provide guidance to ensure commercial success whilst continuously improving Compliance, Safety & Security performance through ongoing compliance monitoring activities.
- Airworthiness Review Certificates - Carry out reviews and inspections of the fleet in order to maintain the validity of the aircrafts Certificate of Airworthiness and continued safe operation
- Approvals - Assess, authorise and oversee all VAA’s Part 145 Engineers and their certification privileges
Are you an experienced aviation professional with an auditing background and a broad knowledge of the airworthiness environment? If this sounds like you and you have the below skills and capabilities, then we'd love to hear from you
- Detailed knowledge of ANO and EASA-OPS aircraft operational requirements
- Detailed knowledge of UK CAA aircraft maintenance and continuing airworthiness requirements
- Working knowledge of EASA, FAA & IOSA aviation requirements
- Working knowledge of UK DfT NASP and US DoHS TSA aviation security requirements
- The ability to negotiate and communicate clearly with all levels of staff, up to and including Director level at external companies.
- Report writing – Up to Executive Level
- Licensed or degree level aircraft engineer, commercial pilot or equivalent ground or flight operational experience
- Experience in a supervisory or management position advantageous
- Audit experience should include Flight Operations, Ground Operations, Safety Management Systems, Aviation Security or Aircraft Maintenance.
- Lead Auditor qualification advantageous
At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? Click here
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.