Senior Manager, Cabin Safety, Change & Projects

• Challenge yourself to lead transformation projects and the Cabin Safety Strategy
• Drive continuous improvement in safety systems and performance
• Permanent, full-time role, working a minimum of 4 days a week in the Melbourne Jetstar office

Love travel and passionate about all things aviation? You’re in the right place. At Jetstar, you get to takeoff at work, and in life. As a team, we’re lucky we get to do both for a living – and we want you to be part of where we go next. Helping our teammates soar is what we’re all about. And with a new fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft, plus new routes being added, the sky’s the limit.

Takeoff with your next opportunity

The Senior Manager, Cabin Safety, Change & Projects is responsible for driving strategic outcomes across Cabin Safety, Change Management and Project Delivery within the Cabin Crew function. You will lead the implementation of the Cabin Safety Strategy, ensure regulatory compliance and risk mitigations, and oversee transformation projects and initiatives. This role also manages financials oversight and maintains strong internal and external stakeholder relationships to ensure the successful delivery of safety, change, and project outcomes.

Other key responsibilities:

• Lead the Cabin Crew project pipeline, ensuring timely, on-budget delivery aligned with strategic objectives
• Develop and execute change management strategies, including impact assessments, training and adoption monitoring
• Develop and manage budgets, tracking project benefits and vendor spend
• Represent Cabin Crew in enterprise-wide forums, steering committees and working groups
• Travel as required for the needs of the position

You’ll have:

• 5+ years in a senior leadership role, working in highly regulated environments such as aviation, safety, customer etc.
• Strong project and change management across multi-vendor environments
• Project and Change Management certifications preferred
• Experience with financial modelling, ROI/NPV analysis
• Strong stakeholder engagement, with the ability to influence and communicate across all levels including C-suite
• Experience with team leadership and capability development
• Strategic and analytical thinking, and data-driven decision making
• Cultural awareness and customer centric mindset

Your life at Jetstar is unlike any other:

• Takeoff professionally: Dip your toes into something new. Stopover in another role. Move up quicker. At Jetstar, you’ve got the opportunities to grow and elevate your career.
• Standby for adventure: Your partner. Your kids. You can all takeoff more and enjoy our famous Jetstar discount across the Qantas Group and our partner network.
• Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar.

There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar: For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of.  We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly.  We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us.  If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.

We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply by Thursday 30 October 2025.