Flight Operations Safety Specialist

About the role

Air Arabia Group is looking for a Flight Operations Safety Specialist in Sharjah. The role interprets Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) and operational safety data to identify hazards and risks, supports safety investigations, risk assessments, crew engagement and safety promotion, and helps continuously improve flight safety and operational performance.

Key responsibilities

• Interpret FDM exceedances, trends, SOP application, aircraft handling characteristics and operational context within the Air Arabia Group FDM program.
• Monitor and analyse FDM and other safety data to spot trends, recurring exceedances, emerging threats and hazards.
• Perform operational risk assessments, evaluate existing risk controls, monitor safety actions and recommend further mitigations.
• Review, assess, follow up and close safety reports from flight crew in line with proactive safety management and Just Culture principles.
• Develop safety recommendations to prevent recurrence of safety events.
• Lead and take part in crew debriefings and engage with crew to gather operational insights.
• Take part in safety promotion activities, including drafting safety publications and planning Safety Walk & Talk sessions.
• Support Safety Risk Assessments (SRA) and Management of Change (MOC) by identifying operational hazards and emerging risks.

Required profile

• Commercial airline pilot with at least 5 years of flight operations experience.
• Extensive knowledge of SOPs, operational procedures, Airbus aircraft systems, aircraft handling and flight operations.
• Good knowledge of ICAO Annex 19 safety management principles and of GCAA CAR SMS and CAR AIR OPS requirements.
• Good knowledge of FDM/FOQA principles and understanding of human factors and threat and error management.
• Experience as a Training Captain, TRI/TRE, in-flight safety, FDM, FOQA or a related safety function is an advantage.
• Fluent in English and any other languages required.

Required skills

• Operational risk assessment methodologies.
• Ability to interview crew and hold operational debriefings.
• Attention to detail, accuracy and strong report writing.
• Ability to analyse large volumes of operational safety data.
• Stakeholder engagement, integrity, professionalism and confidentiality.