Kia ora!
Are you a proactive, outcome focused, growth mindset individual with a passion for working in the aviation industry?
About Us:
Air New Zealand's Ground Support Equipment (GSE) & Tooling division plays a significant part in contributing to the achievement of Air New Zealand's commercial and operational goals through On-Time Performance, Safety, and Operational Excellence. Our primary purpose is to ensure the safety of our people and environment, while delivering GSE and tooling solutions to our key stakeholders.
The Opportunity:
We have a 12-month Fixed Term opportunity for a skilled practitioner to join our Auckland or Christchurch based team where you would support delivery of varied and strategically important projects across our aviation tooling portfolio. This is a dynamic role, with significant opportunity to engage with a wide cross section of our organisation, connect with external suppliers and work alongside other passionate team members.
What you’ll get involved with:
You will lead and manage tooling improvement projects to ensure business needs are met through on-time, on budget and right-first time delivery of outcomes to the operation; ultimately enabling our engineering and maintenance teams to maintain airworthiness and keep our aircraft flying.
You will develop close working relationships with project sponsors and key stakeholders; ensuring effective communication is in place, requirements are understood, and target outcomes are delivered. Project planning, scoping, risk and financial management will be core to this role and aligned to our developing project delivery framework.
To be successful in this role:
This role requires effective time management and prioritisation to meet project milestones, strong problem-solving skills and excellent attention to detail. Proven experience in delivering and managing projects is essential.
You will ideally have:
- Experience in managing projects and change in a complex, highly regulated environment
- Engineering qualification, trade experience and a degree of commercial acumen
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a technical, aviation or tooling related field
- Ability to identify key stakeholders, lead and facilitate meetings
- Ability to influence at all levels including senior management
- Influential communication style and be outcomes focused
- Working knowledge of process improvement practices
- Ability to identify with the company vision and delivery of strategic direction
- Ability to thrive in an environment of ambiguity and have an interest in safety management
- Ability to work with commercially sensitive and confidential information exercising discretion.
How to apply:
To be considered for this opportunity, please apply online and include your CV. Advertising Closes on the 5th December.
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."
