Key responsibilities of this role are:

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to identify and actively manage all fleet safety threats.
• Responsible for the heavy maintenance check phase process in order to ensure agreed TATs are met.
• Monitor quality of MRO work performance and associated paperwork.
• Manage standards for the respective MRO’s to ensure continued airworthiness standards are met at competitive cost.
• Support on-going business development and continual improvement with proactive fleet technical management within heavy maintenance environment.
• Provide and/or coordinate expert technical assistance to respective MRO’s as required
• Provide technical knowledge and skill to MRO maintenance activities.
• Research and analysis into reliability issues to improve fleet performance.
• Monitor technical status of aircraft and systems utilising AHM and TRAX within 100 sectors of Heavy Maintenance exit.
• Carry out technical research for any MRO requirements as required.
• Maintain regular communications and including regular interface meetings to ensure delivery of services and communications is maintained.
• Assist in management of aircraft schedule disruptions and recovery in External MRO/AMO ports as required.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Trade/ LAME qualification (group 20) highly regarded
• Business degree/diploma (or equivalent) highly regarded.
• Sound aircraft Industry Experience, including experience in a supervisory capacity.
• Experience within a line maintenance environment.
• Detailed understanding of airworthiness regulatory requirements for engineering maintenance organisations.
• Sound experience managing supplier relationships and contract delivery (internally and externally) Project management
• Good negotiation skills and implementation of high profile projects / initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills with all customers internal and external.
• Able to communicate business status through reporting methodologies, such as business scorecards.
• High flexibility and adaptable approach
• Superior relationship building and influencing capability