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27 May 2011
New Quality Manager Appointed
Safe Air has appointed former air safety investigator, airworthiness controller and auditor Andrew Miller to take Safe Air’s quality focus to the next level.
Andy Miller joins Safe Air’s leadership team in the role of Quality and Risk Manager. General Manager Heather Deacon says this is a key role in the company’s development strategy.
“Quality and continuous improvement are the backbone of our organisation,” says Heather. “Quality is not just about maintaining compliance for us. We are championing change to lead the market and not simply follow.”
She expects Andy to develop and drive three change criteria - quality, continuous improvement and sustainability to build and reinforce Safe Air’s value proposition to customers and to shareholders.
Andy joins Safe Air from Air New Zealand’s Christchurch engineering base where he was an airworthiness controller, a senior position designed to oversee engineering operations and develop and foster quality practice.
“I’ve always been interested in quality and safety and I’ve enjoyed involvement in the changes we’ve made in Air New Zealand’s Technical Operations quality and safety culture recently,” says Andy. “So I’m really enthusiastic about the opportunities in Blenheim where quality is already so central to the company’s future direction.”
Andy trained as an engineer at the Christchurch base and has 29 years’ experience in New Zealand and overseas airlines and OEMs as an engineer, manager and quality and safety auditor. He has served as line maintenance manager for an airline in Barbados and chief engineer for Airlines PNG in Port Moresby but moved into the quality field while working for New Zealand-based Qantas operation Jetconnect, completing a certificate in quality assurance in 2006.
He is a member of the International Society for Air Safety Investigators and of the New Zealand and American quality organisations.
Andy and his wife Katie and three young children will move to Blenheim where Andy takes up his new role at the end of the May 2011.
Safe Air holds EASA, FAA, NZCAA approvals and is certified ISO9001 and AS9100 compliant.
Safe Air also holds approved maintenance organisation status with the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force and is the primary heavy maintenance provider to the RNZAF.
The scope of its operations includes airframe, propeller, engine and component maintenance, repair and overhaul. Safe Air operates the aircraft maintenance facilities at Blenheim Airport, formerly the Royal New Zealand Air Force main aircraft repair depot.
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