Aviation Principal

NES Fircroft; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering staffing provider is seeking an Aviation Principal to oversee aviation operations in Aberdeen. The successful candidate will manage aviation logistics, ensure compliance with industry standards, and lead a team while promoting a safe and efficient working environment. This long-term contract offers a unique opportunity to contribute significantly to the company's operations and drive improvements within the aviation sector.

Qualifications

• Extensive industry experience in similar roles.
• Previous experience as Aviation Operations Supervisor in offshore Oil and Gas.
• Comprehensive understanding of aviation logistics processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage aviation risks and oversee safety measures.
• Supervise aviation team and maintain operational efficiencies.
• Act as Company Representative for Aviation and logistics contracts.

Skills

Industry experience

Safety compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Aviation logistics knowledge

Change management

Job description

Our client, an Oil and Gas Operator, are hiring an Aviation Principal to join the team on a long term contract in Aberdeen.

The Aviation Principal, Operations Logistics is responsible for safe and efficient aviation operations to upstream assets in EPI UKI as well as other BAs as determined by Service Level Agreements
• Responsible to assure governing documentation, adherence to industry standards and appropriate personnel competence, to support aviation operations.
• Responsible for task supervision of the aviation team

Key responsibilities and deliveries:

• Understand and manage aviation risk, implement mitigations, and carry out assurance activities
• Apply technical/functional expertise in the delivery of tasks according to prioritised BA and Logistics strategies,
• Supervise the aviation team and promote a safe, diverse, inclusive, and healthy working environment
• Act as Company Representative for Aviation and associated contracts, driving value from contracts and following up performance
• Input into Logistics and Stakeholder’s planning and assuring tactical planning of aircraft assets, crew and flying schedules
• With a cost-conscious mindset, follow up on monthly budget performance and time writing reporting
• Act as Air and Sea Branch Director (Emergency Response) role and Logistics on-call duty (1 in 6 weeks rotation)
• Driving continuous improvement and digital pilots/projects to deliver increasing value and reducing Scope 3 emissions.

Critical Skills and Behaviours

• Extensive industry experience in similar role.
• Previous experience as an Aviation Operations Supervisor in the offshore Oil and Gas industry or similar
• Ability to deliver on Company values and live by safety expectations.
• Safety and compliance focused mindset and continually striving for solutions and improvements.
• Stakeholder engagement including internal customers, cross business discipline peers, industry workgroups and government body liaison (CAA, HCA, OEUK, IOGP for example)
• Comprehensive understanding of aviation logistics processes, industry and discipline standards and performance acceptance criteria.
• Commercial understanding of the logistics budget, costs and value chain
• Building industry and cross BA networks to promote efficiency, knowledge sharing and Operator resource sharing programs.
• Acknowledged SME and share your knowledge and experience with others.
• Focused change and communication management in key strategic projects

What you deliver

• You typically apply single area knowledge to conduct work with
short to medium term tactical impact.
• You independently undertake activities that solve highly complex
tasks and/or deliver through others towards targets you or others have set.
• You are responsible for providing professional support to address
key business issues connected to short and long-term
strategy.
• You work has significant impact on your department, specialist, or
professional group as well as other areas (tasks/project/ department)
• You contribute to our cost-conscious culture by demonstrating
impact of a commercial mindset at a department or business unit
level.
• You may be risk responsible, contributor or owner. Level and size of
risk depends on impact level, mandate, and complexity. You
manage tactical risk with short/medium-term implications.

How you deliver

• You are responsible for explaining facts, practices, and policies to
stakeholders’ business-wide and may regularly lead interactions
with key stakeholders from our partners/external parties.
• You regularly navigate conflicting agendas and are responsible for
advising internal/external parties on how to find common success.
You may occasionally lead negotiations with senior external
stakeholders.
• You are responsible for proactively identifying challenges, defining
specific improvements, and applying technical/functional
knowledge to resolve issues and deliver improvements including
proposals for innovative solutions.
• You regularly contribute to shaping best practice that may include
the creation of new working methods and processes to address
highly complex issues.
• You promote significant and highly complex change initiatives in a
single area. You advise others and propose solutions for how to
deal with ambiguity associated with change.
• You are flexible to adopt new activities and ways of working that are
highly complex and actively communicate and advise others on
how to do so, based on business environment changes.
• You embrace new technology and are continuously improving your
digital literacy whilst advising others on how to do the same.
• You positively impact working environment. You act as a member of
a team and seek opportunities to collaborate with others whilst
being inclusive, caring and demonstrating respect for diversity.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining andManufacturingsectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.