Flight Operations

**Date**:7 May 2025

**Location**: Gatwick, GB

**Company**:Civil Aviation Authority

**Salary**: Up to £60,000 + Market Related Supplement for a fixed wing Flight Operations Inspector (FOI/FOTI) License - (£53,484 to £70,996)

**Contract Type**:Permanent - Full time

**Location**:Gatwick - Hybrid

**Visa Restrictions**:This position does not offer visa sponsorship.

We are the UK's aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field. Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment.

**The Role**

As part of our mandate to ensure that the UK aviation industry is as safe as possible, we must conduct inspections of those operating within it. In this instance the inspections focus on how public transport and police operators understand, implement, and comply with relevant legislation. To this end, we are looking for experienced fixed wing flight operations professional to act as an inspector leading a team to provide regulatory oversight of AOC holders.

Your internal training for the role will qualify you to carry out the core activities of the Flight Operations Inspector which requires a level of senior executive contact and influence across the full spectrum of the helicopter industry. This enables you to conduct regulatory activity with AOC holders where your experience will help to ensure they operate to the highest standards of safety and compliance.

You will carry out audits and inspections, reporting your findings and agreeing best practice, recommendations and action plans to address non-compliance. Ideally you will have relevant training qualifications and experience; if so (following suitable qualification) these will also be used to oversee pilot licensing activities, including oversight of examiner and instructor standards, simulator evaluations and approval of operator training/checking programmes.

At our core we believe in fair and equitable practice and our aim is to continuously educate and facilitate the improvement of our industrial partners. This requires thoughtful consideration when dealing with them and when developing roadmaps for the elimination of non-conformances. With that said our primary concern is always public safety and you must be able to balance these objectives to be truly successful.

**About You**

The following are essential pre-requisites for applicants:

- Possession of a UK ATPL (or have held one)
- Relevant Industry experience as aircraft commander
- Ability to demonstrate strong communication skills, with an ability to influence and command respect at all levels

The following are desirable
- Experience in a managerial position in a commercial air transport operator/ Approved Training Organisation
- Background as an experienced Instructor and Examiner in both aircraft and FSTD

**Additional Information**

For many appointments within the CAA, these roles require access to operationally sensitive infrastructure and/or Nationally Protected information. For these roles the post holders must undergo National Security Vetting and achieve the appropriate level of clearance.

**CTC -**To be vetted we will usually expect a reasonable period of residency in the UK so that meaningful checks can be undertaken. For this role this will need to be 3 years.

The CAA values high ethical standards and personal integrity among employees. If invited for interview you will be asked to complete a declaration of interest.

**Relocation & Property**

The CAA will be relocating from Aviation House (Our Gatwick Office) to new premises in a few years’ time. Our move is driven by strategic, operational and environmental considerations.

We will be moving to a new local home, up to a 15-mile radius of Aviation House, to minimise disruption for our valued colleagues and customers.

We are now working with colleagues and visitors to understand what we need in our new office, before we start our property search. We will sell Aviation House and land, vacate the site and move to new premises, but we do not expect to move before 2028

**Inclusivity**

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and celebrate our diversity ensuring all are backgrounds included here at the CAA. As a member of the Disability Confident scheme, applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a role with us will be guaranteed an interview.

**Our Benefits**

We offer a range of excellent benefits such as:

- Flexible & hybrid working arrangements available
- 28 days annual leave + public holidays (additional 5 days leave purchase scheme)
- Generous pension scheme (Up to 12% employer contribution)
- Wellbeing Room at Gatwick
- Mental Health and Suicide First Aiders
- Employee Assistance Programme, talking therapies and neurodiversity support via Occupational Health & access to Headspace for colleagues and 5 dependents
- Free onsite gym at Gatwick or di