Safety Specialist (Technology Group)

About Airways:
Our people manage New Zealand's 30 million square kms of airspace, providing air traffic control, surveillance, communication, flight inspection, mapping, and airspace design services. We work with government, regulatory authorities, airlines, airports, and the general aviation community to ensure pilots, passengers and goods reach their destination - safely. At Airways, our values underpin all that we do. We value Safety, One Airways, Excellence and Success in all that we do.

Our organisation is made up of operational business groups that are supported by governance and corporate services functions. To learn more about our people and organisational structure, check out www.airways.co.nz/about.

About the Team:
The Technology Group is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining the infrastructure that enables Airways to deliver its Air Traffic Management services nationally and within our Pacific FIR. Airways technical assets are spread widely across the country and form a resilient mission critical infrastructure of national significance. Systems are often located in areas that are remote.

Technology Group is the most diverse business unit within Airways in terms of job functions and locations. That diversity means it presents a highly complex safety environment.

About the Role:
This is a critical newly created permanent full-time role as Technology Group Safety Specialist that will be based in our Christchurch based campus.

This role will support the Senior Safety Specialist with Line 1 activities across the diverse and complex Technology Group as part of the Airways 3 lines of defence model.

Additionally, this role will provide health, safety and wellbeing subject matter expertise (SME) to the Manager Technology Safety and Regulatory Compliance and wider Technology Group Management Team, being responsible for the delivery of key areas of the Technology Group (TG) Safety & Compliance programme.

For a full list of tasks and responsibilities, please refer to the position description.

About You:
For success, you will have:

• 2+ years’ experience in complex operational Health and Safety environments with high-risk activities.
• Demonstrated understanding of Health and Safety at Work Act, industry best practices, standards and codes of practice.
• Demonstrated experience supporting and facilitating the implementation of critical risk audit programmes.
• Supported the delivery of behavioural safety training to leadership and operational teams.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the planning and delivery of safety improvement projects.
• Proficiency in Office365 suite including SharePoint.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Power BI reporting.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment, collaborate with people, show resilience and agility, take ownership and focus on delivering successful outcomes.
  

Beneficial:
Relevant tertiary qualification/courses in OHS or equivalent experience in a complex operational health and safety environment.

To Apply:
If you have a safety led mindset, is quality focused and enjoy interacting with a wide variety of stakeholders, please submit your application (CV and cover letter) via the Airways careers site. 

Please note that you must be legally eligible to work in New Zealand to be considered.

This role may require the successful candidate to undergo additional pre-employment background checks such as references, drug and alcohol screening, criminal conviction, and related checks.

Application closing date is Thursday, 28 August 2025, however all applications will be reviewed as they are received and progressed accordingly – don’t delay!

At Airways, our people are at the heart of what we do to keep NZ skies safe. We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where people feel they belong and can bring their whole self to work. We currently hold the Rainbow Tick and NQTick (neurodiversity) and are working towards Gender Tick. We make our recruitment decisions based on the best candidate for the job and therefore encourage applications from diverse candidates.