What you’ll do:

• Team compliance with environmental, quality, health and safety and housekeeping standards
• Maintenance oversight of individual and team activities ensuring compliance with safety, regulatory and company standards
• Collaborates with colleagues, Shift manager and support department to achieve the targets for the department
• Organise and agree team work schedule and allocate tasks to deliver areas to agreed targets
• People management of the team IAW policies e.g. disciplinary
• Individual coaching, performance management and development e.g. one to ones
• Works to improve schedules and aircraft downtimes
• Provide technical leadership of teams maintenance tasks.
• Sign off work on completion within the full scope of individual approval
• Effective communications within the organisation
• Deliver departmental productivity and cost targets by driving improvement to work tasks, processes and work environment.

What you’ll bring to British Airways:

Skills/Capabilities

• Good technical decision making
• Good leadership and people skills
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Effective communicator at all levels within the organisation
• PC literate, can work with engineering systems and document management systems
• Can work shifts
• Can work in confined spaces as required (fuel tanks)
• Can work under pressure to timescales

Core traits

• Uncompromising in safety, security, process and regulatory requirements
• Customer and colleague focussed
• Clear and articulate communicator
• Resilient under pressure
• Work with integrity, trust and collaboration
• A great people leader with excellent leadership capability – able to build and contribute to high performing teams

Your experience:

• UK CAA Pt66 B licence
• 3 years aircraft heavy maintenance experience
• Maintains Base Maintenance authorisations on all types required
• Experience in leading teams in an aircraft maintenance environment