Aerodrome Safety and Compliance Specialist

Application Deadline: 1 April 2026

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Jersey Airport (St Peter)

Compensation: £53,502 - £69,616 per annum dependent on experience

Description

Are you passionate about safety and regulatory compliance?
 
We're recruiting for a Safety and Compliance Specialist to join our team and play a key role in ensuring our Airport maintains the highest standards of operational safety, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement.
Working closely with operational teams and regulators, you will help strengthen the Airport’s compliance monitoring and safety assurance activities, supporting the ongoing development of the Airport’s Safety Management System (SMS).

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for supporting aerodrome compliance monitoring, internal audit activity, and safety assurance processes across airport operations.

• Conducting internal audits and compliance monitoring activities.
• Supporting the implementation and continuous improvement of the Airport SMS.
• Monitoring operational compliance with aerodrome regulations and standards.
• Supporting hazard identification, risk assessment and safety investigations.
• Analysing safety and compliance data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Coordinating regulatory inspections and audits.
• Working with operational teams to strengthen safety culture and compliance awareness.
• Maintaining critical aerodrome operational and safety documentation.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

We are looking for someone with experience in aviation operations, safety, compliance, or regulatory oversight, ideally within an aerodrome or aviation operational environment.

You will bring:

• Experience working within a regulated aviation environment
• Knowledge of Safety Management Systems (SMS)
• Experience conducting audits, inspections, or compliance monitoring
• Strong analytical and investigative skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
• A proactive and collaborative approach to improving safety and compliance

Benefits

At Ports of Jersey we have a company cash health plan scheme you are eligible to join from day one with benefits such as;

• GP £75 
• Dental £75 
• Optical £75 
• Dental accident £300
• Physio/ acupuncture/ chiropractic £200 
• Diagnostic tests/ scans £300
• Health assessment £100
• Plus many more discounts (DW gym, discount spa vouchers etc.) 

We offer free parking at all of our locations. 
 
We also offer a pension scheme to those on permanent contracts, the main benefits of the scheme are as follows;

• 5% employer contribution rate on basic salary plus shift
• Employees can make voluntary contributions and ports will match 1% for 1% up to an employer maximum matched contribution of 5% e.g. Employee opts to contribute 5% Ports will match this and the total employer contributions would become 10%
• You are eligible to join the pension scheme the month after successful completion of your probation
• Minimum joining age – 18 
• You are not able to join the pension scheme once you reach Government of Jersey state retirement age
• Cash sum payable to nominated beneficiary if the member dies in service.