Kia ora!
Join us as Senior Manager, Ground Safety Equipment (GSE) & Tooling and shape the future of our operations. You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring Air New Zealand’s operational excellence and safety through strategic leadership of our critical ground assets.
Our Supply Chain team is on an exciting transformation journey, driving world-class performance, efficiency, and innovation. At Air New Zealand, we're not just moving people - we're connecting whānau, communities, and businesses. Your expertise will directly impact our operational effectiveness, customer experience, and compliance within a highly regulated environment.
Reporting to the General Manager Supply Chain, you’ll lead our GSE & Tooling function, encompassing Planning and Investment, Operations, Compliance, and Asset Management. You’ll craft and deliver strategic initiatives, oversee budgeting and planning, and champion continuous improvement programs to elevate operational performance.
How you'll make an impact:
- Set and drive the strategic direction for Ground Safety Equipment and Tooling.
- Lead comprehensive asset management, ensuring optimal investment, utilization, and lifecycle management.
- Oversee compliance, ensuring robust auditing processes and adherence to regulatory standards.
- Implement continuous improvement programs to drive operational excellence.
- Foster a culture that prioritises safety, efficiency, and innovation.
What we’re looking for:
- Proven leadership of multi-functional teams, driving strong business outcomes.
- Extensive experience developing and executing departmental or business unit strategies.
- Significant Asset Management experience, ideally within aviation or related industries.
- Strong knowledge of aviation industry standards, compliance, and audit requirements, or similar high compliance environment.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, paired with strategic business acumen.
We know great talent comes in many forms. If you bring strong experience and a fresh perspective, we’d love to hear from you.
Ready for take-off? Join a transformative team that’s driving innovation and operational excellence at Air New Zealand. Apply today and take your career to new heights.
Applications close Sunday 28th September 2025
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. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.
If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.
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."
