The Civil Aviation Authority and the Aviation Security Service offer distinctively different career opportunities and embrace diverse talent. All jobs at the Authority contribute to ensuring safe and secure skies to help New Zealand fly.

The Civil Aviation Authority is the regulatory arm of our organisation and the Aviation Security Service is the nationwide provider for aviation security.
- Best opportunity to positively influence and improve aviation safety performance.
- Permanent role in Wellington or Christchurch or Auckland

We’re looking for great people to joins us in keeping New Zealand’s skies safe and secure.

About the role

As an Airworthiness Inspector in our Certification-Airworthiness team, you will be responsible for carrying out certification activities for organisations seeking to operate in the aviation system, and to ensure they meet the requirements for certification. This includes carrying out certification assessments to determine requirements against the Civil Aviation Standards and to record certification decisions in a way that supports the CAA’s goals and objectives.

This role will give you the opportunity to positively influence and improve aviation safety performance by working closely with operators. The role will promote safety and engineering best practices within the New Zealand aviation system. As such, you will be required to exercise sound judgement and responsibility within an established operating framework.

This role can be based at Wellington Office, Auckland Office or Christchurch Office.

What we’re looking for
- Your strong interpersonal skills mean that you will be able to work closely with external parties to provide clear and objective decisions about potential safety issues.
- You will be respected by others for your integrity, professionalism and aviation experience and be passionate about improving safety performance.
- Your systems thinking approach combined with your ability to think critically and solve problems will be of benefit in your day-to-day work.
- Experience in a maintenance control role or with helicopters/fixed wing in the Pt135/125/121 or supervisory / SQMS experience in a Pt145 environment is desirable.

Why join us?

As a flexible friendly employer, we are happy to discuss solutions that may work for you and us. We value and care about enabling our people to work in a way that means they can work at their best.
We offer five weeks annual leave and match your Kiwi Saver contribution up to 4% while also supporting professional development.
To view our benefits, and learn more about us, our values and why we would love you to join us, click on the link below.
CAA regulatory careers | aviation.govt.nz

We want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, so the recruitment process is fair and equitable for all. Therefore, please let us know if there is any support, we can provide to ensure the recruitment process is fully accessible to you.

**Applications close**: Tuesday, 19 March 2024.