16/10/2025
🌍 We're Hiring: Security Manager
📍 Location: Bucharest, Romania
✈️ Full-Time Position
Legend Airlines is seeking a proactive and highly responsible Security Manager to oversee all aspects of aviation security and ensure full compliance with EASA, RCAA, and internal safety standards. The Security Manager holds overall responsibility for aviation security at Legend Airlines. Working with internal departments and external providers, the role ensures full implementation of security measures in line with the National Aviation Security Program and the Legend Airlines Security Program.
✅ Our Ideal Candidate will have the following responsibilities:
• Apply and implement national and international regulations for protection against acts of unlawful interference; distribute security policy and ensure official directives/regulations are implemented across the company;
• Influence planned legal measures to protect company interests; coordinate procedural changes and conduct regular reviews;
• Disseminate security requirements and authority/external information to relevant departments; coordinate and support the implementation of security procedures company-wide;
• Edit and publish the Legend Airlines Security Program, ensuring regular review, adaptation to internal/legal/customer-airline requirements across states of operation, endorsement by the Accountable Manager, and approval by the RCAA;
• Develop, publish, and maintain Security Documentation (Security Manual, Security Forms, Security Program, and Security Training Program), including revisions and periodic updates per national/international regulations and operational needs;
• Maintain and implement the SeMS (Security Management System) with all relevant departments;
• Define security training content per the National Civil Aviation Security Training Program; implement procedures described in the Security Program, Security Training Program, and Security Manual; collaborate on developing and delivering security training;
• Provide legal training requirements for OM-D content; support crew-training planning; regularly review security training content; issue timely internal/external updates (e.g., regulatory amendments);
• Lead the company’s Security Awareness Training and keep materials current with regulatory/internal changes;
• Keep constant communication with Romanian aviation security authorities; act as point of contact for authorities and other stakeholders on strategic security issues;
• Ensure ongoing effectiveness of the Security Program via evaluations, inspections, and internal security analysis; maintain, improve, and supervise quality control, including the Security Quality Control Schedule; accompany external audits with Compliance;
• Coordinate process changes based on risk/threat assessments; adopt operational security procedures; ensure risk assessments and mitigation; initiate special measures for increased risks/critical routes;
• Confirm presence of any authorized armed passenger, bound persons, and escorts; provide security communications/signaling procedures to prevent unlawful interventions and limit threats; manage internal security communications and publish instructions not covered elsewhere;
• Ensure staff knowledge, compliance, and correct implementation of the Security Program; preserve state/service secrecy where applicable;
• Participate in the Security Review Board, Safety Review Board, and other relevant meetings; attend trainings with national/international organizations and authorities (e.g., IATA);
• Represent Legend Airlines in national/international exchanges of experience and information per the Accountable Manager’s mandate; ensure close collaboration with all key authorities; contribute to security-related projects;
• Track and report evidence of weapons, ammunition, or hazardous materials carried/discovered in facilities/aircraft and any unlawful acts within Legend Airlines; investigate internal security incidents, report as required, and maintain an effective response framework to security threats;
• Report to aviation security authorities on acts of unlawful interference and any events impacting the safety, security, and continuity of operations.
🎯 Requirements:
• Completion of an RCAA-approved security course and recurrent training every two years;
• Experience in the aviation business with consolidated expertise; successful RCAA background check;
• Strong proficiency in security matters, negotiation skills, team leadership, and objective judgment;
• Excellent written and spoken English; capability to initiate/support process changes and analyze security-process deficiencies;
• Knowledge of relevant legal requirements and compliance pathways; familiarity with internal, national, European, and international quality-control regulations/procedures;
• Understanding of the capabilities and limitations of security equipment and screening methods.
👉🏻 Key Skills:
Leadership & team management; clear communication; responsible decision-making; attention to detail; integrity & confidentiality.
🤝 What we offer:
• A role within a growing European airline with international ambitions;
• Collaboration with seasoned aviation professionals;
• Competitive salary and benefits;
• Career growth in a dynamic, supportive environment.
📩 Does this sound like you?
If this role excites you and if you’re ready to take on this challenge and lead the heart of our operations, we’d love to hear from you.
Please send your CV to: [email protected] & [email protected] stating Security Manager application in the Subject.