Are you obsessed with plane accident investigation?
Are you in search of a excessive profile function at the vanguard of aviation security?
In that case, this can be a distinctive alternative to hitch the Air Accidents Investigation Department (AAIB) as an Inspector of Air Accidents (Operations), and we’d love to listen to from you.
We recognise the challenges that folks with protected traits could expertise on the job market and of their profession development. We’re totally dedicated to being an inclusive employer and making certain equal alternatives. We’re eager to make our workforce as numerous as doable, and we hope to draw purposes from underrepresented teams, together with ethnic minorities, individuals with a incapacity, and folks with gender numerous identities.
Job description
The Air Accidents Investigation Department (AAIB) is a part of the Division for Transport (DfT). The AAIB’s objective is to enhance aviation security by figuring out the circumstances and causes of plane accidents and severe incidents and selling security motion to stop re-occurrence. We examine accidents and severe incidents to civil plane within the UK (together with UK Abroad Territories and Crown Dependencies) and abroad the place there’s a UK curiosity.
You’ll be accountable for investigating the operational elements of an incidence as a part of a multi-disciplinary staff, together with interviewing witnesses and exploring related human components.
For additional details about our work please go to www.aaib.gov.uk.
Tasks embrace, however are usually not restricted to:
- You’ll be instrumental in figuring out the operational circumstances by which civil plane accidents and severe incidents happen worldwide, figuring out components that influenced the result and highlighting areas the place change would enhance security.
- You’ll assist the worldwide security investigation neighborhood to enhance aviation security globally by supporting overseas security investigation authorities and by conducting investigations within the UK’s Abroad Territories and Crown Dependencies.
- You’ll produce experiences of the operational elements of an occasion and promote motion to enhance security via dialogue with related events and by making sound security suggestions.
- Following deadly accidents within the UK or involving UK residents abroad, you’ll preserve the households of victims knowledgeable of the progress of the investigation and you’ll temporary them on its findings and conclusions. Additionally, you will be required to present technical proof on the coroner’s inquest to elucidate the findings of the report.
For extra data, please see the connected Position Profile.
Particular person specification
About you
To thrive on this function, you:
- Could have in depth and up to date skilled flying expertise, together with information of civilian plane operations and aviation normally.
- Can be extremely motivated, inquisitive, in a position to work below strain, and cozy working in a staff or independently.
- Will need to have a broad technical and analytical functionality throughout a variety of plane technical and non-technical operational topics.
- Should be capable to work in difficult environments worldwide, typically at quick discover.
- Could have wonderful written communication abilities and be able to producing correct and clear experiences. Additionally, you will have wonderful verbal and presentation abilities.
- Will possess the power to work with stakeholders, each inside and out of doors the AAIB staff, to ascertain mutual respect and belief, and to speak clearly and successfully.
Further data
Because of the nature of AAIB operations, the profitable candidate could also be uncovered to data and materials together with imagery (video and pictures) which can be distressing. They could even be required to talk with probably traumatised accident victims, bereaved relations and witnesses. It’s important that candidates take these necessities into consideration earlier than making use of for the publish.
Candidates can be required to take part in a wellbeing and traumatic stress danger evaluate and on-line character questionnaire prematurely of their formal evaluation. This danger evaluate shouldn’t be a proper evaluation and won’t resolve whether or not you progress to interview. The danger evaluate will embrace a brief questionnaire which is adopted up by a brief phone name with a Psychologist. Potential candidates are welcome to contact the AAIB for additional data (contact level beneath).
A minimal of 60% of your working time ought to be spent at your principal office, though necessities to attend different places for official enterprise, or perform indifferent responsibility in one other DfT office, may even rely in the direction of this degree of attendance. The function requires the place holder to be on-call for deployments besides while on Annual Depart or by mutual settlement with AAIB Administration. A roster is managed to make sure there can be durations the place you’re much less prone to be referred to as.
Licences
Full UK Drivers Licence.
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To be eligible for the function you should have:
• An Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence appropriate for working UK-registered plane.
• Skilled flying expertise in a multi-crew industrial setting throughout the two years main as much as the time limit for purposes.
Both:
• Greater than 4,500 hours as pilot on mounted wing plane, of which greater than 3,000 hours had been gained working plane over 5,700 kg certificated for operation with a minimal crew of two pilots.
or
• Greater than 2,500 hours as pilot on rotary wing plane, of which greater than 2,000 hours had been gained working in a multi-pilot setting in rotary wing plane over 3,175 kg certificated for multi-pilot operations.
Both:
• Greater than 1,000 hours in control of multi-crew industrial plane.
or
• Important expertise of management and taking duty in an organisational setting, ideally within the aviation area.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you towards these behaviours in the course of the choice course of:
- Making Efficient Choices
- Working Collectively
- Speaking and Influencing
Technical abilities
We’ll assess you towards these technical abilities in the course of the choice course of:
- Making use of Experience and Know-how (AIB Competency).
- Written communication (AIB Competency).
- 1. Technique. 1.1. Coverage Context and Objective. Degree 1: Growing.
- 2. Democracy. 2.1. Working with Ministers. Degree 1: Growing.
Advantages
Being a part of our good Civil Service means you should have entry to a variety of unbelievable advantages. We provide beneficiant annual go away, engaging pension choices, versatile working, inclusive working environments and way more to assist a wholesome work/life steadiness.
Discover out extra about what it’s like working on the Division for Transport
Issues it’s essential to know
Choice course of particulars
This emptiness is utilizing Success Profiles (opens in a brand new window), and can assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Expertise and Technical abilities.
Methods to apply
As a part of the appliance course of, you’ll be requested to supply a CV and a 750-word Private Assertion.
Please tailor your CV to go well with the function.
On your Private Assertion, please present detailed proof of the next:
- Having a assorted aviation background by way of roles, plane sorts/lessons, and forms of flying.
- Expertise of constructing and sustaining relationships with a varied vary of stakeholders
Please embrace in your private assertion proof of a assorted aviation background by way of roles, plane sorts/lessons and forms of flying.
The sift is because of happen in the course of the w/c fifteenth April 2024.
On-line Persona Questionnaires and Psychological Trauma Danger Evaluation Critiques will happen from w/c twenty ninth April 2024.
Interviews are prone to be held on eighth or ninth Could 2024.
We’ll attempt to meet the dates set out within the advert. There could also be events when these dates will change. You’ll be supplied with ample discover of the confirmed dates.
The choice course of can be designed particularly for the function. In consequence, your evaluation will embrace:
- A coverage train.
- A presentation.
- A task play train.
- An interview.
- A capability check.
This interview can be carried out Face to Face at our workplace. Additional particulars can be supplied to you must you be chosen for interview.
You’re inspired to grow to be conversant in the function profile, as it’s possible you’ll be assessed towards any of the factors recorded inside.
The Division for Transport alongside different Authorities Departments recruit utilizing Success Profiles. This implies for every function we take into account what you’ll need to display so as to achieve success. This provides us the absolute best likelihood of discovering the correct individual for the job, drives up efficiency and improves range and inclusivity.
For additional data on Success Profiles go to our Careers web site.
Affordable Changes
As a Incapacity Assured Chief employer, we’re dedicated to making sure that the recruitment course of is honest, accessible and permits all candidates to carry out at their finest. If an individual with a visual or non-visible incapacity is considerably deprived, we have now an obligation to make cheap modifications to our processes.
Full the “Help required” part within the “Further necessities” web page of your utility kind to inform us what modifications or allow you to may want in the course of the recruitment course of. As an example, it’s possible you’ll want wheelchair entry at an interview, or in case you’re deaf, a Language Service Skilled.
In case you want an affordable adjustment in an effort to full your utility, you must contact Authorities Recruitment Service through dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as quickly as doable earlier than the time limit to debate your wants.
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Additional Info
After about two years, topic to passable development and evaluation towards competency necessities, you’ll grow to be a Senior Inspector and be awarded a non-pensionable allowance of £4,000 each year. After an extra interval of passable development and evaluation, it’s possible you’ll be awarded a extra non-pensionable allowance of £2,000 each year. This normally happens about 4 years after reaching Senior Inspector
For extra details about how we rent, and for helpful tips about submitting your utility for this function, go to the How We Rent web page of our DfT Careers web site. Yow will discover detailed details about the recruitment course of and what to anticipate when making use of for a task.
This function is full time solely. Candidates who want to work an alternate sample are welcome to use nevertheless your most well-liked working sample will not be out there and you must talk about this with the emptiness holder earlier than making use of.
Pre-employment Checking
Candidates who’re profitable at interview can be, as a part of pre-employment screening, topic to a verify on the Inside Fraud Database (IFD). This verify will present details about staff who’ve been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This verify additionally applies to staff who resign or in any other case go away earlier than being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s particulars held on the IFD can be refused employment.
A candidate shouldn’t be eligible to use for a task throughout the Civil Service if the appliance is made inside a 5-year interval following a dismissal for finishing up inner fraud towards authorities.
For additional data on Nationwide Safety Vetting please go to the next web page https://www.gov.uk/authorities/publications/demystifying-vetting
Suggestions will solely be supplied in case you attend an interview or evaluation.
Safety
Profitable candidates should meet the safety necessities earlier than they are often appointed. The extent of safety wanted is safety verify (opens in a brand new window).
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Folks working with authorities property should full baseline personnel safety normal (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality necessities
This job is broadly open to the next teams:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Eire
- nationals of Commonwealth international locations who’ve the correct to work within the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and relations of these nationalities with settled or pre-settled standing below the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a brand new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and relations of these nationalities who’ve made a legitimate utility for settled or pre-settled standing below the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- people with restricted go away to stay or indefinite go away to stay who had been eligible to use for EUSS on or earlier than 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and sure relations of Turkish nationals, who’ve accrued the correct to work within the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service
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We recruit by advantage on the idea of honest and open competitors, as outlined within the Civil Service Fee’s recruitment ideas (opens in a brand new window).
The Civil Service embraces range and promotes equal alternatives. As such, we run a Incapacity Assured Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimal choice standards.
The Civil Service additionally affords a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who’re vulnerable to redundancy, and who meet the minimal necessities for the marketed emptiness.
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Contact level for candidates
Job contact :
- Identify :Eileen Collins
- E-mail :Recruitment@aaib.gov.uk
Recruitment staff
- E-mail :dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Additional data
In case you really feel your utility has not been handled in accordance with the Recruitment Ideas and also you want to make a criticism, within the first occasion, you must contact Authorities Recruitment Companies through e-mail: dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
If you’re not happy with the response you obtain from the Division, you’ll be able to contact the Civil Service Fee: Go to the Civil Service Fee web site Right here
