SACAA Qualified Quality, Safety + Security Professional

Honiball Aviation Auditing; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Honiball Aviation Auditing is seeking an experienced aviation Quality, Safety and Security Consultant to join our Pretoria team. The consultant will support multiple clients as a SACAA-nominated post-holder and manage regulatory compliance, quality assurance, safety management and aviation security.

The role is senior, client-facing, and requires independence across different aviation organisations while maintaining confidentiality and high professional standards.

Qualifications

• Qualified as a SACAA post-holder or equivalent.
• Experience in aviation quality, auditing and compliance-monitoring.
• Substantial full-time aviation safety or SMS experience.
• SMS training completed under an approved Part 141 organisation within 3 years.
• AVSEC Level 3 training with 24-month currency.

Responsibilities

• Provide regulatory, technical and advisory support to aviation clients.
• Prepare clients for regulatory inspections, audits and approvals.
• Develop and manage risk-based audit and surveillance programmes.
• Lead hazard identification, safety-risk assessment and risk-control activities.
• Coordinate or participate in accident and incident investigations when required.
• Deliver safety training and promote a proactive safety culture.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Lead Auditor

Aviation Safety

Regulatory knowledge

Education

SACAA post-holder qualification

Job description

SACAA Qualified Quality, Safety + Security Professional

Senior aviation Quality, Safety and Security consultant supporting multiple clients as a SACAA nominated post-holder under the Honiball Aviation Auditing banner.

Other Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Full-time On-site / Hybrid and client-facing Applications open

Work arrangement: On-site / Hybrid and client-facing

The opportunity

Honiball Aviation Auditing is seeking an experienced aviation professional to join our team as an Aviation Quality, Safety and Security Consultant.

The successful candidate will work under the Honiball Aviation Auditing banner, supporting a portfolio of aviation clients with regulatory compliance, quality assurance, safety management and aviation security.

Depending on each client’s operational requirements, the consultant may be nominated to fulfil one or more SACAA post-holder functions—including Quality Manager, Safety Manager or Aviation Security Manager—subject to the applicable regulatory requirements and SACAA acceptance.

This is a senior, accountable and client-facing consulting position. It requires a professional who can work across different aviation organisations while maintaining regulatory independence, confidentiality, consistency and a high standard of professional service.

Applications submitted by email, LinkedIn message or any other channel will not be considered.

Applications will initially be assessed against transparent, role-specific criteria. Screening technology and AI-generated summaries may assist the recruitment team, but all shortlisting and employment decisions will be reviewed and made by people. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a nominated post-holder for assigned client organisations where appropriately qualified and accepted.
• Provide ongoing regulatory, technical and advisory support to a portfolio of aviation clients.
• Understand each client’s operational scope, approvals, risk profile and regulatory obligations.
• Maintain effective working relationships with accountable managers, operational personnel and SACAA representatives.
• Ensure sufficient time, attention and professional independence across assigned clients.
• Identify and appropriately manage potential conflicts of interest.
• Prepare clients for regulatory inspections, audits and approval activities.
• Establish, maintain and improve client Quality Management Systems and compliance-monitoring programmes.
• Develop and manage risk-based audit and surveillance programmes.
• Conduct audits against applicable SACAA regulations, technical standards, approved manuals and organisational procedures.
• Record findings and coordinate corrective and preventive actions through to effective closure.
• Monitor regulatory changes and assist clients in keeping manuals and procedures current.Report quality and compliance performance directly to each client’s accountable management.
• Establish, maintain and continually improve client Safety Management Systems.
• Lead hazard identification, safety-risk assessment and risk-control activities.
• Monitor safety performance indicators, operational trends and emerging risks.
• Manage safety reporting, occurrence analysis and safety-assurance activities.
• Coordinate or participate in accident and incident investigations where required.
• Deliver safety training and promote a positive, just and proactive safety culture.
• Assist clients with required safety and security occurrence reporting.
• Develop, maintain and oversee client Aviation Security Programmes.
• Support compliance with the National Aviation Security Programme and applicable SACAA Parts 108 and 109 requirements.
• Coordinate aviation-security training, vetting and access-control interfaces.
• Monitor security risks, incidents, controls and corrective actions.
• Liaise with SACAA and other relevant authorities on aviation-security matters.
• Promote security awareness throughout client organisations.
• A recognised Quality Assurance or Lead Auditor qualification.
• Relevant aviation quality, auditing and compliance-monitoring experience.
• Substantial full-time aviation safety or Safety Management System experience.
• Current SMS training completed through an appropriately approved Part 141 Aviation Training Organisation, preferably within the past three years.
• Current AVSEC Level 3 training applicable to a Part 109 Aviation Security Training Organisation, with the required 24-month currency.
• Practical experience developing, implementing or managing an aviation security programme.
• Sound working knowledge of the South African Civil Aviation Regulations, associated Technical Standards and relevant SACAA requirements.
• Ability to manage responsibilities across several aviation clients without compromising regulatory independence or service quality.
• Strong consulting, report-writing, communication and client-management skills.
• Legal right to work in South Africa.
• Qualifications, competence, integrity and availability required for applicable nominated post-holder responsibilities.

Useful experience

Preferred but not required:

• Previous SACAA-approved or nominated post-holder appointments.
• Consulting to multiple aviation organisations.
• Auditing within aviation operators or approved aviation organisations.
• Preparation for SACAA certification, surveillance or renewal audits.
• Accident or incident investigation.
• Human factors and safety-risk management.
• ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices.
• Aviation-security vetting, access control or security-risk assessment.
• Liaison with SACAA inspectors and other aviation authorities.

Screening scores (and any optional AI shortlist notes for recruiters) are decision-support aids only.Final hiring decisions are made by people. We do not use automated systems as the sole basis foremployment decisions, and we do not use AI to infer sensitive personal characteristics.