Work Location: EMA Cargo West, East Midlands Airport, Derby, DE74 2TR
Working Hours: Monday to Friday - Office hours
Salary: Competitive

DHL Air is the largest all-cargo air carrier in the UK, operating a fleet of B757-200SF, B767-300F & B777-200F aircraft on worldwide operations. Part of the DHL Express team with our headquarters at East Midlands Airport, we wish to enhance the team to deliver our customer promise of; Excellence, Simply Delivered.

We are looking to appoint a self-motivated individual that is people and service focused. Someone who gets it right first time, shows passion in their work and has the “Can Do” spirit that made DHL world leading in Logistics.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join DHL Air as a Risk Analyst in our Safety Department.

The Role:

Your primary role is to provide advice and support to line managers so that they can fulfil their safety responsibilities, including hazard identification, risk assessment as well as risk mitigation.

Your main duties will include:

• Reviewing, processing, actioning, monitoring to conclusion and closing all safety occurrence reports, thereby ensuring that events are investigated and the appropriate closing action is undertaken
• Reporting of mandatory occurrences to the UK Civil Aviation Authority and RIDDOR reports to Health and Safety Executive
• Undertaking the preparation and facilitating departmental safety occurrence report review meetings
• Developing DHL Air’s hazard identification, risk assessments and mitigation procedures
• Carrying out and assisting in safety department investigations into accidents, incidents and hazardous occurrences including the writing of reports and making of recommendations to prevent a re-occurrence
• Training of staff, including third party staff and others on the occurrence reporting database
• Researching and undertaking statistical analysis of data to identify operational and/or fatigue hazards, potentially hazardous conditions and adverse trends that need to be reported to the departmental Safety Action Groups and/or Safety Review Board

Skills and Experience required for the role:

• Educated to or studying for a graduate level qualification (or equivalent) OR hold an aviation related or safety/risk management graduate qualification
• Ideally be qualified to undertake incident investigations as well as have experience of analysing Operational Flight Data Monitoring events
• High attention to detail and the ability to follow procedures
• Excellent administration, organisation and time management skills
• The ability to work on your own initiative to tight deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Outstanding communication skills (written and verbal)
• Excellent team working skills and be able to deal with colleagues at all levels
• IT literate with a strong working knowledge of MS Office packages including but not limited to Word, Excel and Outlook

What you’ll get in return

A competitive salary and as part of a growing DHL population you will receive access to a variety of our excellent benefits such as private healthcare & a company pension scheme!

What you'll need to do next?

If you are interested in the Safety Officer position and have a proven track record of achievement to match the requirements for this role, simply apply online ensuring that a full up to date CV and cover letter is attached with your application.

We will ensure that all our resourcing activities are fair, transparent and consistent across the UK. We want to ensure that the candidate experience is of the highest professional standard. The Company is committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. Furthermore we aim to ensure our workplaces are free from discrimination and that not only employees but also our potential future employees are treated fairly and with dignity and respect. We will ensure that equality of opportunity maintains a high profile in our organisation.

Closing Date: 9th February 2023