Senior Manager - Emergency Planning

Role Overview

What You’ll Deliver

• Lead and manage the DXB Emergency Planning programme, setting priorities, deliverables, milestones, and progress reporting.
• Oversee aerodrome emergency plans, procedures, and supporting documentation.
• Lead the annual emergency exercise programme from scenario development through post-exercise reporting.
• Manage emergency planning audits, assurance activities, regulatory evidence, responses, and corrective actions.
• Track lessons from exercises, incidents, audits, and assurance activities and convert them into improvements.
• Coordinate preparedness with internal teams, airport partners, authorities, emergency responders, and regulators.
• Lead emergency planning training and awareness activities.
• Prepare programme updates, assurance reports, and management information for governance groups.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Emergency Planning, Crisis Management, Business Continuity Management, Incident Response, or a related discipline.
• 7–10 years of overall experience, including 5–7 years in emergency planning, crisis management, incident response, or a related aviation environment.
• A recognised professional certification such as CBCI or an equivalent qualification is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of airport operations, aerodrome emergency planning frameworks, regulatory compliance, and emergency exercise management.
• Experience coordinating complex exercises, audits, and assurance activities and managing actions to evidenced closure.
• Ability to translate regulatory, operational, and safety requirements into clear plans, reports, briefings, and preparedness arrangements.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills across internal and external organisations.
• Sound judgement and ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex, operationally sensitive environment.

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