Team Leader: AIMS

Job Purpose

Lead and manage aircraft flight data monitoring programmes, safety analytics, and aviation data investigation support to improve operational safety, identify risks, and support strategic safety management initiatives within the organisation.

Principal Accountabilities

Incident & Event Investigation Support: Provide rapid extraction, validation, and reconstruction of flight data to support incident and accident investigations.

Safety Risk Management & Governance: Ensure compliance with ICAO Annex 13 principles, safety risk assessments, data confidentiality, and hazard mitigation processes.

Aircraft Data Systems & Technical Analysis: Interpret aircraft systems data, validate parameter accuracy, and analyse flight profiles to distinguish operational deviations, technical failures, and human-machine interaction issues.

Leadership & Departmental Management: Manage AIMS analysts, establish analytical standards, prioritise investigations, and coordinate proactive safety monitoring activities.

Stakeholder & Regulatory Coordination: Interface with SACAA, aircraft manufacturers, regulators, pilot groups, and operational departments regarding aviation safety data matters.

Data Integrity & Systems Administration: Maintain aviation data analysis systems, replay tools, and ensure the reliability and integrity of aircraft data sources.

Continuous Improvement & Safety Enhancement: Identify opportunities to improve safety analytics capabilities, investigation methodologies, and aviation data monitoring processes.

Evaluate and provide recommendations on quotations for outsourced aircraft data analysis services.

Ensure facility compliance with all applicable regulatory authority requirements, standards, and procedures.

Engage with customers to identify and define software requirements for the analysis and interpretation of aircraft data.

Remain abreast of emerging technologies and industry developments to support customer fleet changes, and recommend appropriate system enhancements and improvements.

Design, develop, and maintain aircraft and ground-based software solutions for the retrieval, decoding, processing, and analysis of aircraft data.

Qualifications & Experience

Grade 12 or equivalent with Mathematics – Essential

Aircraft Avionics Trade qualification with 3 years’ experience – Essential

Qualification in IT or related field – Essential

Management or Business qualification – Advantageous

Aircraft type course – Advantageous

Safety analytics or Statistical analysis training – Advantageous

Aircraft maintenance or avionics environments – General Aviation (4 Years) Advantageous

AIMS Analyst – General Aviation (3 Years) EssentialSupporting incident and accident investigations – General Aviation (3 Years) Essential

High Level of Computer Literacy (MS Office, Visual Basic, Fortran) – General Aviation – (3 Years) – Essential

Working with aviation regulators and operational departments General Aviation – (4 Years) – Essential

Knowledge and Skills

Programming skills – Advanced

Problem solving skills – Advanced

Interpersonal Skills – Intermediate

Communication Skills – Intermediate

Aviation safety data analysis – Advanced

Analytical and problem-solving capability – Advanced

Assertiveness skills – Advanced

Coaching and mentoring skills – Intermediate

Technical report writing and presentation – Intermediate

Stakeholder engagement and coordination – Intermediate

Flight profile reconstruction and event analysis – Advanced

Attributes

Analytical thinking

Conceptional thinking

Information seeking

Achievement and deadline Orientation

Initiative

Organisational Awareness

Teamwork and Co-operation

Customer Service Orientation

Decision making

Able to work under pressure

Confidentiality

Integrity

Additional Information