Kia ora!
At Air New Zealand, the health and safety of our people are fundamental to delivering the exceptional experiences we're known for. As our Occupational Health Nurse, you'll play a pivotal role in safeguarding employee wellbeing, ensuring compliance with critical regulations, and fostering a healthier, safer workplace. We are currently have a role available on a 13-month fixed-term contract.
With a strong reputation for culture, service, and innovation, Air New Zealand is consistently ranked as one of New Zealand’s most attractive employers. Behind the scenes, our corporate teams are shaping strategy, driving performance, and supporting a thriving, future-fit business. This role sits at the heart of ensuring our workforce remains healthy, productive, and able to thrive both professionally and personally.
How you’ll make an impact
- Lead the delivery of a comprehensive occupational health advisory service focused on fitness for work, health promotion, and regulatory compliance
- Provide expert clinical assessments and surveillance, reporting and addressing concerns proactively to maintain workplace safety
- Advise employees and management on occupational health matters, ensuring best practices and timely resolutions
- Oversee accurate and timely record-keeping for CAA NZ pilot medical procedures in collaboration with the Aviation Medicine Adviser
- Manage the Air New Zealand Alcohol and Other Drugs testing programme, ensuring strict compliance and accurate documentation
- Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to enhance workplace health programmes and reduce business risks
- Collaborate with service providers, ensuring delivery standards meet our high expectations.
What we’re looking for
- Registered General Nurse with a current NZNC Practising Certificate
- NZ recognised tertiary qualification in Occupational Health or working towards this or related work experience as an Occupational Health Nurse
- Proven ability to manage occupational health programmes and compliance
- Strong understanding of health surveillance and fitness for work assessments
- Excellent communication skills with experience advising diverse stakeholders
- Strong understanding of the Safety Sensitive Role and how that effects how we return clients back to work or employ them into that workspace
- Strong IT skills and a solid understanding of working with dedicated patient management platforms
- Proven ability to manage compliance programmes, ideally within the aviation sector or other highly regulated industries.
If you bring most of this experience, along with transferable skills and the drive to grow, we’d love to hear from you.
Ready for take-off?
This is your opportunity to join a leading organisation committed to employee health and safety excellence. Apply today and help us maintain the highest standards of wellbeing at Air New Zealand. Applications close Sunday 16th November
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."
