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London Heathrow Airport, England, United Kingdom

Manage and oversee all cargo issues relating to safety, security and regulation for Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd (VAA) and Virgin International Airlines Ltd. Acting as the central focus point for regulatory and company issues, ensuring compliance in all areas.

Heathrow, England, United Kingdom

Drive and oversee a variety of projects including ISAGO.

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Directed the strategic planning, policy and practice for Health, Safety, Security, Assurance & Environment across the UK. Directly supporting the Commercial and Operational teams meeting the regulatory requirements of Customer airlines relating to Health, Safety, Security and Environmental processes and procedures.• Achieved and continued accreditation to ISAGO (IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations) and provided corporate support for regular auditing from regulators and customers, with… Show more Directed the strategic planning, policy and practice for Health, Safety, Security, Assurance & Environment across the UK. Directly supporting the Commercial and Operational teams meeting the regulatory requirements of Customer airlines relating to Health, Safety, Security and Environmental processes and procedures.• Achieved and continued accreditation to ISAGO (IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations) and provided corporate support for regular auditing from regulators and customers, with no significant findings, thus maintaining customer base and operating licences at UK airports.• Ensured no significant HSE incidents were attributed to dnata, from planned and unannounced audits/visits from the HSE therefore saving potential fines, negative press, and legal sanctions.• Achieved and continued accreditation SeMS (Security Management Systems) with the UK CAA, after a robust inspection program across all UK sites. Therefore, providing reassurances to the CAA of the company’s good security culture and driving increased trust of the organisation.• Improved communication processes on safety and security issues through various means e.g., introduction of display screens across the business, supporting a more positive and transparent safety and security culture.• Improved assurance structure and reporting providing the UK ExCo with a more effective oversight of the UK business and increasing the ability to identify emerging issues pre-incident. To support this, the use of PDAs achieved higher quality inspections/audits and real-time reporting, thus saving time and resource.• Chairman of the AOCC Security Sub-committee meeting, representing airline and ground handling membership at industry meetings and forums. Allowing companies stance and priorities to influence future regulation. Show less

Manage and oversee all cargo issues relating to safety, security and regulation for Virgin Atlantic Ltd (VAA), Virgin Australia and Virgin International Airlines Ltd. Acting as the central focus point for regulatory and company issues, ensuring compliance in all areas and providing subject matter expert support to the Corporate Security dept.• Achieved and continued accreditation to IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) proving additional support to other VAA departments on external audits… Show more Manage and oversee all cargo issues relating to safety, security and regulation for Virgin Atlantic Ltd (VAA), Virgin Australia and Virgin International Airlines Ltd. Acting as the central focus point for regulatory and company issues, ensuring compliance in all areas and providing subject matter expert support to the Corporate Security dept.• Achieved and continued accreditation to IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) proving additional support to other VAA departments on external audits from regulators and customers, allowing continuation of commercial agreements with other airlines and customers, therefore providing increased revenue opportunities.• Ensured no significant findings identified during CAA dangerous goods annual audits and inspections. Auditing covered all business areas of airline and SME support given to all areas. Positive audit outcomes maintained good business credibility with UK and international regulatory bodies. • Led the creation of a new assurance structure for Cargo to support the airlines requirements to meet aviation regulations. The new scheme provided additional quality control oversight, saving costs, time and resource.• Chaired the AOCC (Airline Operators Committee for Cargo) Security Sub-committee meeting, representing aiumentation portal using a SharePoint platform, delivering improved accessibility of all operational documentation globally and therefore saving costs, time and resource. Also, providing a consistent suite of resource to all VAA airports. rline and ground handling membership at industry meetings and forums. Therefore, allowing company stance and priorities to influence future regulation.• Supported the CAA as a UK representative at ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel on behalf of the airline community, enabling company influence to bear on emerging and changes to dangerous goods regulation. Show less