Senior Manager - Group Safety (Governance & Assurance)

Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad; Sepang; On-site; MYR 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Group Safety governance and assurance across the MAHB group. The role ensures compliance with national and international aviation safety standards and mitigates systemic operational risks.

Responsibilities include overseeing governance frameworks, conducting audits, and coordinating with regulators. The position emphasizes learning from incidents, developing safety KPIs, and reporting safety performance to

Qualifications

• Must have strong leadership and governance capabilities.
• Experience in safety management systems and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Group Safety Governance Framework across MAHB's units and subsidiaries.
• Lead enterprise safety assurance programmes, including audits, inspections and investigations.
• Establish a Group-wide Learning From Incidents programme and safety performance analytics.
• Coordinate strategic engagement with regulators (CAAM, DOSH, Ministry of Transport) and drive continual improvement.

Job description

Senior Manager - Group Safety (Governance & Assurance)

• To lead, establish, and enforce the group-wide safety governance framework, compliance monitoring mechanisms, and risk investigation protocols across Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB). This role ensures robust compliance alignment with national and international aviation safety regulations while mitigating systemic operational risks.

Essential Position Functions

1. Safety Governance

• Develop and maintain the Group Safety Governance Framework, policies, standards and governance processes to ensure a consistent approach to safety management across all business units and subsidiaries.

2. Safety Assurance

• Lead the implementation of enterprise safety assurance programmes including audits, inspections, assurance reviews and compliance monitoring to verify the effectiveness of safety controls.
• Provide strategic oversight of major incident investigations and ensure investigations identify systemic causes, organisational weaknesses and opportunities for improvement.

4. Learning from Incident (LFI)

• Establish a Group-wide Learning From Incidents programme to capture, analyse and disseminate lessons learned from operational events, audits and investigations.

5. Safety performance

• Lead the development of Group Safety KPIs, leading indicators, dashboards and performance analytics to support Executive Management and Board reporting.

6. Enterprise Safety Reporting

• Provide consolidated safety performance reporting for the Head of Group Safety, SMT, and the ESHOR Board, moving away from purely positive paper exercises to transparent risk escalation.

7. Regulatory Coordination

• Coordinate strategic engagement with CAAM, DOSH, Ministry of Transport, external regulators regarding enterprise safety matters.
• Drive continual improvement initiatives using ICAO SMS, ISO 45001, High Reliability Organisation principles, Bow-Tie Risk Management, Human Factors

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Malaysia Airports manages and operates 39 airports in Malaysia and one international airport in Istanbul, Turkey. The 39 airports in Malaysia comprise of 5 international, 16 domestic and 18 Short Take-Off and Landing Ports (STOL Ports). Malaysia Airports is the company that helps connect the country – bringing together remote, rural communities with the vibrant cities and providing the country’s premier gateway to the world beyond.

Malaysia Airports was corporatised in 1992 and listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia) seven years later, becoming the first Asian airport operator to go public and only the sixth in the world to do so. It now employs some 11,000 people in Malaysia and around the world.

Our core business is the management, operation, maintenance and development of airports. The company draws its revenue from aeronautical operations – aircraft landing and parking fees, passenger service charges and other airline charges – and commercial activities from airport-related services such as duty free shops and other retail outlets, hotel operations, commercial leasing and car park management.

Over the past decades, Malaysia Airports has developed a business model that focuses not only on the airports portfolio, but also on optimising the commercial opportunities presented by the travel and aviation industry. As we move forward, our new goal is to develop the “Airport City” of the future – providing world-class aeronautical services while fully utilising surrounding land banks to develop malls, hotels and leisure facilities to ensure a joyful experiences not only for the contemporary traveller, but also for all Malaysia Airports’ clients and business partners.

We are looking for people who are committed team players with diverse backgrounds to join our team and grow with us. We place great emphasis on our human capital to meet the challenges of the present and future environment.

Malaysia Airports manages and operates 39 airports in Malaysia and one international airport in Istanbul, Turkey. The 39 airports in Malaysia comprise of 5 international, 16 domestic and 18 Short Take-Off and Landing Ports (STOL Ports). Malaysia Airports is the company that helps connect the country – bringing together remote, rural communities with the vibrant cities and providing the country’s premier gateway to the world beyond.

Malaysia Airports was corporatised in 1992 and listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia) seven years later, becoming the first Asian airport operator to go public and only the sixth in the world to do so. It now employs some 11,000 people in Malaysia and around the world.

Our core business is the management, operation, maintenance and development of airports. The company draws its revenue from aeronautical operations – aircraft landing and parking fees, passenger service charges and other airline charges – and commercial activities from airport-related services such as duty free shops and other retail outlets, hotel operations, commercial leasing and car park management.

Over the past decades, Malaysia Airports has developed a business model that focuses not only on the airports portfolio, but also on optimising the commercial opportunities presented by the travel and aviation industry. As we move forward, our new goal is to develop the “Airport City” of the future – providing world-class aeronautical services while fully utilising surrounding land banks to develop malls, hotels and leisure facilities to ensure a joyful experiences not only for the contemporary traveller, but also for all Malaysia Airports’ clients and business partners.

We are looking for people who are committed team players with diverse backgrounds to join our team and grow with us. We place great emphasis on our human capital to meet the challenges of the present and future environment.

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