Inspector of Air Accidents

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 345677**Salary**:

- £78,255**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DFT - Aviation, Maritime and Security Group (AMS) - Air Accident Investigation Branch**Type of role**:

- Investigation
- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Farnborough House, Berkshire Copse Road, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 2HHAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you passionate about aircraft accident investigation?

Are you looking for a high profile role at the leading edge of aviation safety?

If so, this is a unique opportunity to join the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) as an Inspector of Air Accidents (Operations), and we’d love to hear from you.

**Job description**:
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is part of the Department for Transport (DfT). The AAIB’s purpose is to improve aviation safety by determining the circumstances and causes of aircraft accidents and serious incidents and promoting safety action to prevent re-occurrence. We investigate accidents and serious incidents to civil aircraft in the UK (including UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies) and overseas where there is a UK interest.

You will be responsible for investigating the operational aspects of an occurrence as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including interviewing witnesses and exploring relevant human factors.

**Responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:

- You will be instrumental in determining the operational circumstances in which civil aircraft accidents and serious incidents take place worldwide, identifying factors that influenced the outcome and highlighting areas where change would improve safety.
- You will help the international safety investigation community to improve aviation safety globally by supporting foreign safety investigation authorities and by conducting investigations in the UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
- You will produce reports of the operational aspects of an event and promote action to improve safety through discussion with relevant parties and by making sound safety recommendations.
- Following fatal accidents in the UK or involving UK citizens overseas, you will keep the families of victims informed of the progress of the investigation and you will brief them on its findings and conclusions. You will also be required to give technical evidence at the coroner’s inquest to explain the findings of the report.

For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.

**Person specification**:
**About you**

To thrive in this role, you:

- Will have extensive and recent professional flying experience, along with knowledge of civilian aircraft operations and aviation in general.
- Will be highly motivated, inquisitive, able to work under pressure, and comfortable working in a team or independently.
- Must be able to work in challenging environments worldwide, sometimes at short notice.
- Will have excellent written communication skills and be capable of producing accurate and clear reports. You will also have excellent verbal and presentation skills.
- Will possess the ability to work with stakeholders, both inside and outside the AAIB team, to establish mutual respect and trust, and to communicate clearly and effectively.

**Additional information**

Applicants will be required to participate in a wellbeing and traumatic stress risk review and online personality questionnaire in advance of their formal assessment. This risk review is not a formal assessment and will not decide whether you progress to interview. The risk review will include a short questionnaire which is followed up by a short telephone call with a Psychologist. Potential applicants are welcome to contact the AAIB for further information (contact point below).

A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

**Licences**:

- Full UK Drivers Licence.**Qualifications**:

- To be eligible for the role you must have:
- An Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence suitable for operating UK-registered aircraft.

Either:
- More than 4,500 hours as pilot on fixed wing aircraft, of which more than 3,000 hours were gained operating aircraft over 5,700 kg certificated for operation with a minimum crew of two pilots.

or- More than 2,500 hours as pilot on rotary wing aircraft, of which more than 2,000 hours were gained operating in a multi-pilot environment in rotary wing aircraft over 3,175 kg certificated for multi-pilot operations.

Either:
- More than 1,000 hours in command of multi-crew commercial aircraft.

or- Significant experience of leadership and taking responsibility in an organisati