Aviation Licensing & Safety Compliance Lead

The General Civil Aviation Authority; Dubai; On-site; AED 220,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in Dubai is seeking specialists to oversee certification, audits and safety oversight within the UAE aviation sector. You will contribute to licensing processes, manage surveillance programs, lead multi-disciplinary audits, and drive continuous improvement across safety policies and procedures.

You will provide expert guidance on rules and international standards, supervise regulatory development, and coordinate training and assessments to maintain

Responsibilities

• Ensure that aircraft maintenance engineer licenses are issued in accordance with established procedures and as per technical authority manual including marking examination paper and conducting oral examination.
• Ensure that MTO certification/approvals and audits are managed effectively in line with stipulated guidelines and issue relevant certificates/approvals and/or recommend for certification/approval, as per the Technical Authority Manual.
• Provide inputs into the process of developing the annual oversight (surveillance) program to ensure compliance with standards and regulations.
• Ensure timely and up to date data in Q-Pulse (auditing system) to ensure compliance with GCAA’s roles and functions.
• Ensure that investigations are carried out to determine the cause of incidents and prevent future occurrences and direct coordination with other disciplines (if necessary).
• Lead an audit team when carrying out audits involving multi-disciplinary audits on clients to ensure proper conduct of audit as per standards.
• Participate in regular internal and external meetings/forums related to Licensing/Aviation Safety to facilitate stakeholder collaboration and to maintain an open channel of communication and discussion with stakeholders.
• Participate in the review and amendment of Safety Affairs Procedure Manual to improve and create efficient process and procedure of safety oversight, to ensure compliance with ever changing standards and regulation, technology and industry best practice.
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of section systems, policies, procedures, processes and practices taking into account ‘international best practice’, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.
• Provide specialist advice on rules, regulations, best practice and other applicable guidance to GCAA external and internal clients.
• Supervise the development of safety regulation related to job area to ensure they meet national and international standards.
• Review reports and documents prepared by Inspectors to ensure accuracy and quality.
• Organize and facilitate training requirements in accordance with international, national and industry best practice.
• Deliver training courses and provide on-the-job training and coaching to subordinate inspectors to assist in their development program and maintain competence.
• Implement corrective actions for findings raised against the Department during internal surveillance program to ascertain alignment of Safety Affairs standards in line with international standards and continuous improvement.
• Support the administration of all auditing activities by external entities of Safety Affairs including ICAO, and IMS to ensure smooth and productive audit.
• Assist in providing input into the identification of Acceptable Levels of Safety performance (ALOSP) to ensure appropriate and achievable targets are set.
• Improve and implement safety promotion activities to disseminate and nurture a safety awareness culture in the UAE civil aviation industry and to keep industry players abreast of changes to relevant rules, regulations and other aviation safety developments.
• Provide advice, guidance and recommendation to the relevant people in the Sector, sharing best practice, trends and the findings of reviews, studies and investigations to prevent future occurrences/incidents/accidents.
• Assist the management in maintaining on-going liaison with foreign and international aviation regulatory bodies on new requirements and changes to existing safety regulations to foster the safe and orderly growth of UAE Civil Aviation.
• Implement Safety Affairs policies, systems, processes, and procedures so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering high quality safety services to the UAE civil aviation industry in accordance with customer service standards.

Job description

The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in Dubai is seeking specialists to oversee certification, audits and safety oversight within the UAE aviation sector. You will contribute to licensing processes, manage surveillance programs, lead multi-disciplinary audits, and drive continuous improvement across safety policies and procedures.

You will provide expert guidance on rules and international standards, supervise regulatory development, and coordinate training and assessments to maintain