Safety Data Systems

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We are one of Europe's leading low-cost airlines, with special relevance in the Spanish domestic market, as well as in France and Italy.

Job Purpose

Collect, structure, integrate and analyse data from all areas of the Safety Management System (SMS) and other operational departments within the airline, in alignment with internal stakeholders’ information needs, safety regulations and corporate data governance standards, to generate reliable, insightful and predictive outputs that support cross-functional collaboration, improve decision-making and enhance flight safety and operational effectiveness.

Main Accountabilities

Consolidate dispersed datasets into a centralised, structured and interpretable data environment, enabling cross-area synergies, integrated analyses and a shared understanding of safety-critical information.

Create dynamic and reliable visualisations (including SPI dashboards) that become the single trusted source for safety performance monitoring and reporting, progressively replacing legacy systems like Excel.

Extract meaningful insights that support proactive safety management, early identification of operational deviations, and formulation of improvement actions across departments.

Enhance foresight into safety risks and behavioural patterns by anticipating deviations in pilot performance, aircraft systems or operational conditions, thereby enabling timely preventive measures.

Ensure dashboards and analyses are tailored, relevant and accepted by each function, increasing the practical value of data products and fostering trust in data-driven decision-making.

Establish well-governed and sustainable data infrastructures that ensure traceability, version control, accessibility and compliance with IT/Data validation protocols.

Improve the quality, impact and credibility of safety and performance communications at management level by enabling evidence-based discussions with real-time visual support.

Obtain technical approval of dashboards and other outputs, ensuring their seamless integration into Vueling’s broader data ecosystem and avoiding duplication or non-compliance.

Uncover new insights and generate recommendations that enhance cross-departmental understanding, training effectiveness, and ultimately safety outcomes

Enable earlier detection of risks and shift the SMS culture towards prediction and prevention, aligning with regulatory trends and future obligations.

Support compliance by ensuring clarity, reliability and transparency in the way safety data is presented to external authorities.

Help build a culture of trust and confidence in data, reducing reliance on outdated tools, improving decision-making, and aligning Vueling with industry-wide trends in aviation safety and data science.

Help build a culture of trust and confidence in data, reducing reliance on outdated tools, improving decision-making, and aligning Vueling with industry-wide trends in aviation safety and data science.

Provide early warnings to Maintenance and other relevant teams, facilitating predictive maintenance and reducing unexpected failures or disruptions.

Main Responsibilities - Tasks

Identify, gather and structure data from all relevant sources within the Safety Management System and related operational areas, such as FDM, Human Factors, Compliance, Management of Change, Training, Maintenance and Operations Engineering .

Develop, maintain and continuously improve interactive dashboards using Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau.

Analyse structured data to detect trends, anomalies and correlations related to safety, operational performance and potential risks.

Implement and apply Machine Learning models to historical and real-time data streams, aiming for predictive analytics in safety and performance contexts.

Collaborate closely with responsible persons from each SMS area (Human Factors, Safety, Compliance, Management of Change) and from related operational units (Engineering, Training, Maintenance, Scheduling) to understand their information needs and co-design data solutions.

Contribute to the design, maintenance and documentation of data pipelines and databases within the SMS ecosystem.

Support internal reporting and communication through the preparation of dashboards and data outputs for use in presentations to executive stakeholders, including Production Directors and other leadership figures.

Coordinate with internal IT and Data teams to ensure all data solutions comply with corporate technical, design and security standards, including Tableau dashboard validation.

Develop joint analyses between historically disconnected data domains, such as Human Factors and FDM, or Training results and operational performance.

Support the transition from reactive to proactive safety management through improved data exploitation.

Act as a data interlocutor in regulatory inspections or audits (e.g. with AESA) where complex datasets must be interpreted and explained.

Contribute to enhancing the data maturity of the organisation, through collaboration, standardisation and promotion of advanced analytics.

Contribute to enhancing the data maturity of the organisation, through collaboration, standardisation and promotion of advanced analytics.

Support the development of alerts for aircraft system deviations, based on data from thousands of sensors and operational parameters.

Main Relationships

FDM (Flight Data Monitoring): Access to critical aircraft operational data (black box equivalent), key source for safety and predictive analytics.

Human Factors Department: To integrate behavioural and reporting data with operational data, unlocking insights into human performance and risk.

Compliance: To support modernisation of their data systems and align dashboards with audit and monitoring requirements.

Management of Change: To include change-related data into cross-sectional analysis and monitor its impact on safety.

Operations Engineering: To incorporate aircraft reliability data and operational variables into joint analyses, e.g. predictive maintenance or system alerts.

Maintenance: To share technical alerts and aircraft data for improved maintenance planning and risk detection.

Training / Instruction: To correlate training outcomes with in-flight behaviour and optimise training strategies for improved performance and safety.

Flight Operations: To understand operational patterns and support safety interventions from a flight execution perspective.

Scheduling / Crew Planning: To explore how crew assignment, rosters and fatigue influence performance and safety, integrating with Human Factors and FDM data.

Cabin Crew Planning : Potential to expand data analysis to cabin crew behaviour and interactions, currently focused on pilots.

IT Department: To validate the design, performance and integration of dashboards and data systems according to corporate infrastructure and standards.

Data Governance / Data Team: To coordinate data approval processes and ensure consistency and scalability of data products within the company.

Airbus: Occasional interaction to share or validate data related to aircraft systems, performance or joint initiatives.

AESA (Spanish Aviation Authority): Participation in inspections or audits

Group-level analysts (IAG group): Potential collaboration with other airline analysts or data scientists to align methodologies and share best practices across companies within the group.

Education

Degree in Aeronautical Engineering (preferred) or related field.

Experience

Experience or knowledge in Programming and Data.

Competencies

Analytical

Strategic thinking

Assertive communication

Teamwork

Dynamism

Results Oriented

Languages

English C1 - Spanish C1

Other

Ideally understanding of aviation operations, safety principles and airline systems.

Location

Barcelona-Viladecans, Spain.

Level

Individual Contributor 5

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