Kia ora!
Step into a pivotal role where your expertise strengthens safety, compliance, and operational integrity across our Components maintenance network. As Components Compliance Coordinator, you will help shape a culture where quality and safety are embedded in everything we do.
Based in Auckland and reporting to the Manager Components, you will be part of the Aircraft Maintenance and Delivery Part 145 Component Maintenance leadership team. Bridging our Auckland and Christchurch operations, this role provides specialist advice and practical leadership to ensure regulatory obligations are met and risks are proactively managed. Some travel between sites will be required.
At Air New Zealand, safety is at the heart of our operation. Within Aircraft Maintenance and Delivery, our teams work in a highly regulated environment where precision, accountability, and continuous improvement are essential. This is your opportunity to influence systems, processes, and behaviours that protect our people, customers, and aircraft.
About the role
- Lead, coach, and champion a strong quality and compliance culture, including Safety Management Systems, 5S, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Support airworthiness training and compliance activities, including reviewing new and existing Part 145 maintenance capabilities
- Identify safety and quality risks by analysing trends, auditing processes, and reviewing past occurrences to drive proactive mitigation
- Review organisational and operational changes to ensure compliance risks are identified and effectively managed
- Manage the implementation of regulatory rule changes, ensuring clear understanding and adherence
- Support internal and external audit programmes, including engagement with regulatory authorities and the maintenance of approved expositions and manuals
- Lead investigations, determine root causes, and recommend actions to prevent recurrence
- Partner with accountable leaders across Aircraft Maintenance and Delivery to develop and embed compliant policies, procedures, and systems
- Ensure full compliance with regulatory, legislative and operational standards, safeguarding operational integrity
What we’re looking for
- Demonstrated experience within the aviation quality, safety and compliance environment
- Extensive relevant aircraft industry experience, including an aviation trade qualification. Licensing, certification and team leadership experience are advantageous
- Strong knowledge and understanding of aviation regulatory frameworks within the Part 145 environment
- Proven ability to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders at all organisational levels
- Auditing and investigation training with experience is advantageous
- A proactive, analytical mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement and safety excellence
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
How we look after you
- Discounted flights for you and your whānau on Air New Zealand and partner airlines
- FlexiLeave, giving you the option to purchase up to four extra weeks of leave each year
- Life insurance cover of 100,000 dollars for permanent employees under 65
- Medical expense support through Koruhealth, covering GP visits, prescriptions and more
- A learning culture that supports your next step, not just your current role
If you meet the majority of the criteria and are excited by the opportunity, we’d love to hear from you. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in strengthening our safety and compliance culture across Components. If you are ready to elevate your impact and help shape the future of quality within Aircraft Maintenance and Delivery, apply online via our careers site.
Applications close - 22 March 2026
Additional Information
At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles.
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.
"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."
