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The Organisation
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission's visionary goal is “No Repeat Accidents – Ever!”. In pursuit of this goal, the Commission (TAIC) inquires into significant transport accidents across the three modes of aviation, rail, and marine, with a view to avoiding similar occurrences in the future.
TAIC's multi-disciplinary teams investigate and analyse the circumstances of these occurrences, supporting the Commission to consider the facts, and make findings and recommendations to improve transport safety, rather than to ascribe blame.
TAIC is hiring - Human Factors – Senior Advisor
- Incredible opportunity to apply your human factors expertise
- In depth involvement across air, rail, and marine investigations
- Central Wellington office
The role
Provide expert human factors advice on the interaction between the human, the machine, and environment, across rail, marine, and aviation accidents.
Lead and champion our culture of evidence-informed decision making and develop human factors related guidance and tools to support investigators and our transfer of human factors knowledge.
Your expert input into investigations will be vital. It will include secure and gather evidence at accident sites, providing expertise and guidance throughout the inquiry process, and appearing regularly before the Commission itself.
Qualifications, skills and experience
You’ll be a skilled human factors expert – bringing a combination of robust theoretical knowledge, a high level qualification majoring in the human factors realm, and awareness of global industry best practice. You’ll have credible experience applying your human factors expertise, ideally in the transport sector.
To be considered for this position, you will need to have a Masters or PhD in a field relevant to the study of human factor issues (vital).
Experience:
- applying your human factors expertise, preferably in the transport sector
- developing human factors guidance and tools
- implementation of guidance and tools, and coaching of others.
- ideally, some investigative experience
Skills:
- excellent communication skills - including top-notch writing skills and ability to convey complex and technical information easily
- a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- outstanding relationship management skills
- energy, vigour, and the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
Also:
- As you will need to attend accident sites, emotional maturity, fitness over difficult terrain, and the ability to pass a full medical is required.
- This role is based in our central Wellington office.
- You must have the ability to live and work in New Zealand.
Apply now for the position of Human Factors – Senior Advisor
This is a highly specialised role, and while you might not meet all of the requirements, we do require the high level tertiary qualification specialising in human factor issues, so we’re keen to hear from human factors experts working within public and private sectors, including academia.
This is a rare opportunity for human factors experts to apply their expertise in a dynamic and highly relevant area, within a team clearly focused on safety and No Repeat Accidents – Ever!
Applications close 5pm Monday 28 October 2024.
If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, apply now! We look forward to hearing from you.
For further information, a detailed job description or to have a conversation about the role, please contact our consultants at Talent International.
- Jacaleen Williams on 021 732 996, or
- Harleen Verma on 027 326 2129
The accident investigation role - general
Accident investigation is specialised and time-critical work that requires broad proven expertise and skill, including:
- Excellent communication, both verbal and written, dealing all social tiers
- Logical and analytical capability, with very strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Anticipate risk and identify mitigations
- Problem solving
- Project teamwork
- Relationship management
- Energy, diplomacy and tact.
The Accident Investigators team is small and close-knit. investigators attend accident sites throughout New Zealand and undertake thorough site examinations and evidence collection, review, research, and analyse the evidence, before drafting inquiry reports, findings and recommendations for consideration by the Commission. Each investigation process leads to a detailed final report report outlining the findings and safety recommendations to the sector.
Accident investigation work is be interesting and varied, involves a wide range of vehicles and technology, requires engagement with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders. investigators need an agile mindset, to be able to work collaboratively and positively with like-minded professionals, and have high levels of diplomacy, tact, and professionalism, particularly when deployed to accident sites.
It can be demanding work that necessitates medical and physical fitness (accident sites can be anywhere) and resilience in stressful and emotionally difficult circumstances.
While relevant investigative qualifications are desirable, the successful candidate will undergo extensive, world class specialised training in accident investigation. This is part of TAIC's supportive and development-focused environment. A typical job description for a Transport Accident Investigation Commission Investigator is available at right in the Document Downloads box.
Investigator positions are based in Wellington, New Zealand, and involve travel and overnight stays.
Only people with the right to work in New Zealand may apply. For advice on obtaining a New Zealand work or residence visa visit www.immigration.govt.nz.