Qe Assurance Program Manager

**Company Description**
About Us

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia's largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group's main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.
- ** Continue to build your career with us in this leadership role**:

- ** Challenge yourself to lead the overall Qantas Engineering (QE) assurance program design**:

- ** Permanent Full Time opportunity based at Mascot Corporate Campus**

Qantas Engineering keeps us at the forefront of aviation, caring for and maintaining both the Qantas fleet, as well as aircraft for our customers across the Asia-Pacific region. Working with state-of-the-art equipment and resources, our shared commitment to professional excellence continues to keep our customers safe.

Taking ownership is critical. Whether we're working individually or as a group, we challenge ourselves to make progress and deliver results.

The **QE Assurance Program Manager** will lead the overall QE audit program design and ensure that it is approved, resourced and effectively delivered. The scope of the QE audit program will cover all regulatory rule parts (42G, 21J, 21G,145, 147), as well as the management system, WHS, security and environment requirements across all QE regulatory approvals, as well as EFA CAMO approval.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Airworthiness Compliance & Standardisation, you will be responsible for ensuring that audit activity is planned and performed in accordance with Qantas Group standards, Qantas Engineering procedures as well as applicable regulatory and industry standards. You will also establish, monitor and support the self-audit program to be conducted by The QE business.

This will include ensuring that findings, causes and actions, to address causes, from audits are appropriately assessed and managed.

**You'll have**:

- 10+ years experience within the Aviation Industry
- Extensive Quality or Safety experience
- Tertiary degree or training in a relevant field (aviation / aeronautical, management, engineering and / or maintenance, quality and / or safety assurance, etc) or working towards
- Lead Auditor qualifications and practical experience leading and developing investigations / audit functions and oversight programs
- High levels of strategic thinking and demonstrated capability working in complex systems
- Knowledge of contemporary quality assurance, safety practices and techniques
- Understanding of relevant regulatory and compliance environment and high-level familiarity with Australian and international Civil Aviation regulations and other regulations governing industrial workforce management (WHS, Industrial Relations, Environment, etc)
- Experience in the management and achievement of measurable results to targets
- Extensive experience operating under pressure in a closely risk-managed business environment
- Committed to staff engagement, development and business improvement
- Ability to coach and mentor to support critical business processes
- Open to challenge and debate; able to empower subordinates, manage and hold delegates accountable
- Exceptional interpersonal, presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal, with the capability to interact across all levels of the organisation
- Highly motivated, enthusiastic, with a sense of self-discipline and attention to detail

**Why Qantas?**

You'll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you'll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us - so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You'll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we've got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

**The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.**
- We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
- We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.
- We'll give you access to thousands of rewards