Vacant job

Do you want to lead a socially important operation where safety, structure, and development are at the center?

Now is your chance – a unique opportunity to make it happen.

Dala Airport is now looking for an Airport Manager/Operator in Charge – a key person with the ultimate responsibility for ensuring our airport is operated safely, efficiently, and in accordance with current regulations.

About the Role

As Airport Manager/Operator in Charge, you have overall responsibility for the airport's operations, resources, and management systems. The role entails ultimate responsibility for ensuring that the operations comply with EASA regulations and requirements for safety, quality, and aviation security. You hold a central position in the organization, ensuring that operations are conducted with the right structure, competence, and prerequisites – both in daily operations and during extraordinary events.

Your duties include, among other things:

• Ensuring the airport has sufficient resources to conduct operations according to requirements and governing documents
• Developing and maintaining an effective management system covering safety, quality, and aviation security – and ensuring it is used in practice
• Ensuring the right organization, staffing, and clear delegations within the operations
• Ensuring operations are maintained even in the absence of key personnel
• Driving and developing flight safety work and promoting a strong safety culture
• Ensuring operations are conducted within given frameworks – and adjusting the scope as needed to always prioritize safety
• Ensuring contracts with suppliers and partners are correctly formulated and meet operational and regulatory requirements
• Collaborating with authorities, airlines, and other actors within the aviation industry

Your Profile - Who Are We Looking For?

We are looking for you who is a confident and clear leader with the ability to take overall responsibility in an operation with high demands on safety, structure, and regulatory compliance. You have a good understanding of what the role of Operator in Charge entails in an EASA-regulated environment and thrive in a context where safety, quality, and compliance are central. You have knowledge of flight safety work, risk management, and regulatory requirements, as well as experience with – or a good understanding of – how management systems function and are used in practice. You express yourself fluently in Swedish and English, both verbally and in writing, and have a good business acumen as well as experience collaborating with external stakeholders such as authorities, suppliers, and partners.

It is meritorious if you have experience from a leading role within airport operations, other safety-critical operations, or operations with clear regulatory requirements. Experience of contact with authorities, audits, regulatory compliance, and work with steering, follow-up, and goals within a management system is also an advantage. As a person, you are structured, proactive, and inspire trust in your leadership role. You have good decision-making skills – even in complex situations – and combine a strong safety focus with a pragmatic and solution-oriented approach. You also have good collaboration skills and thrive in a role with many contact areas, both internally and externally.

What We Offer

A strategic key role with significant mandate and responsibility, where you will have the opportunity to influence and develop the airport's future working methods and safety culture. You will hold a central position in a socially important operation with strong regional significance, in an engaged context where collaboration, professionalism, and shared responsibility are in focus.

Other Information

• The role of Operator in Charge requires approval from the Swedish Transport Administration (Transportstyrelsen).
• Dala Airport is a protected object, which means a security check is conducted prior to employment.
• You must be able to provide an extract from the criminal record register as well as certificates proving employment for the last five years.
• Your application must clearly state dates (YY-MM-DD) for work and studies.

We look forward to receiving your application!

About Dala Airport AB
Dala Airport AB is owned by the Region of Dalarna and the municipalities of Borlänge and Falun. The company started its operations in 1972. The airport is an emergency airport, meaning it must be able to open within one hour's notice, 24/7, for socially important flights such as air ambulance, organ transport, rescue operations, and other critical societal missions. We also offer passenger traffic with various charter destinations, which this year include Gran Canaria, Crete, Rhodes, and Cyprus.

More information about Dala Airport can be found at http://www.dalaairport.se (http://www.dalaairport.se)