Job Description
Duties include
- Own the evaluation, approval, onboarding, and ongoing governance of contracted and subcontracted Part-145 maintenance organisations, ensuring they have the required approvals, facilities, personnel, tooling, equipment, technical data, and capabilities for the contracted scope.
- Provide leadership and governance oversight of the Maintenance Control Operations Room, ensuring safe, compliant, and effective real-time technical support and coordination between contracted MROs, Engineering, CAMO, Operations Control, Flight Operations, Materials, Safety, and Compliance.
- Develop, negotiate, and control Line Maintenance contracts, service level agreements, and side letters, clearly defining responsibilities, performance standards, safety reporting, record keeping, escalation arrangements, subcontracting controls, and audit rights.
- Complete annual contractual and regulatory reviews in accordance with Part-145, Part-CAMO, MOE/CAME procedures, and applicable authority requirements, ensuring contract changes, renewals, scope extensions, and terminations are properly assessed, approved, and documented.
- Chair regular supplier review meetings, monitoring contractual, operational, safety, and compliance performance and ensuring actions, findings, risks, and commercial issues are assigned, escalated where required, and closed within agreed timescales.
- Work closely with Safety and Compliance Monitoring teams during supplier audits, regulatory inspections, occurrence investigations, and root-cause analysis, ensuring findings and safety actions are tracked to effective closure and lessons learned are shared across the network.
- Act as the principal interface between contracted MROs and internal stakeholders, providing senior management with clear reporting on supplier performance, operational delivery, safety, compliance, risk, contractual status, and significant technical events.
- Lead and develop the Contracted Maintenance and Maintenance Control teams, driving accountability, standardisation, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement while ensuring safety, airworthiness, and compliance are never compromised by commercial or operational pressures.
Qualifications
- Degree in Aeronautical/Mechanical Engineering or B-1/B-2/CAT A license.
- Minimum 5 years experience in a CAMO or P-145 maintenance role.
- Good technical knowledge of the B737NG, A320 and B737-8200 aircraft.
- Understanding of EASA Part-M, Part CAMO and part 145 regulation.
- Flexible approach with project delivery being a high priority.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Good working knowledge of AMOS would be preferable.
- Computer literate, with working knowledge of Word and Excel.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision in a collaborative team.
- Strong attention to detail in multi-tasking situations and the ability to deliver results to tight timelines.
Additional Information
- Competitive salary
- Discounted and unlimited travel to over 250 destinations
- Defined Contribution Pension Scheme – Matched up to 5% or €5,000
- Death in Service Benefit – Up to 2 times of annual basic salary
- 20 Days Annual Leave – Increasing to 22 days after 12 months and 25 days after 3 years of continuous service.
- Option for up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year
- Cycle 2 Work Scheme
- Unrivalled career progression