Maintenance Team Leader

Job Location
United Kingdom, Europe
Job Role
Engineer
Contract Type
Full-Time
Salary
Posted Date
2025-07-09
Job Expiry Date
2025-07-18
Qualification
Bachelor’s Degree

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


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