Repair Line Manager

Safran Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global aerospace company in Dubai is seeking a Production Line Manager responsible for overseeing repair production teams and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. The role involves managing workloads, promoting innovation, and developing team competencies. Ideal candidates should have strong experience in a technology-focused environment and demonstrated leadership skills. Competitive salary and opportunities for career advancement are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing repair production lines.
• Demonstrated leadership in a technological environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Repair Technicians and Leads.
• Ensure safety compliance and promote innovation.
• Allocate workload and manage team HR processes.

Skills

Budget monitoring

Reporting

Industrial risk management

Scheduling and resources management

Ability to analyse, synthesize and propose solutions

HSE skills

Job description

Job Description

Reporting directly to the Production Manager or to the Repair Station Manager, you will be responsible for all activities of one or more repair production lines. In this scope, you will manage a repair production team with the support of one or more Lead Repair Technician(s). You will also manage the Certification / Return to service activity.

Your objectives and Missions

• Manage your team with the aim of meeting objectives for safety, quality, costs and delivery, in line with customer requirements and SAO strategy.
• Improve performance within your expanded scope of responsibility.
• Ensure that multidisciplinary teams capitalize on experience and move up the skills chain. Develop versatility, autonomy, cross‑functional applicability and innovation, in line with the Safran Together model.
• Providing a vision and uniting the teams around the entity's challenges.
• Ensuring that competencies and resources are maintained at the highest level within the expanded scope.
• Ensuring the accessibility and quality of data in the sector.
• Guaranteeing the use of and compliance with referential.
• Ensuring compliance of all production, processes and the correct application of all directives (Part 145 regulations, HSE, etc.).
• Keeping up to date and documentation and procedures relative to your scope.
• Ensuring the required transformations and change management in line with CSS global requirements.

Main Activities

Manage the employees within the Production Line team:

• Managing a team of Repair Technicians, Leads & dedicated certifying staff when applicable.
• Guaranteeing a safe environment of work and lead any necessary actions to ensure safety of your team.
• Organising your teams in a way that promotes multidisciplinary contributions, autonomy, accountability, and cross‑functionality with the aim of being agile and adaptable to operational contingencies and (internal and external) customer's needs.
• Managing workload‑capacity balance in coordination with the production manager.
• Expressing resource and competency needs for the optimal operation of the department.
• Allocating workload based on need & managing priorities within the department.
• Managing HR Processes: hiring/on boarding/training, PDR… of the Team.
• Managing the competency development of each team member.
• Identifying training needs, defining training initiatives to ensure the development of the team, and contributing to employee career management.
• Maintaining a good social climate within and with your team.
• Promoting a team operation in accordance with the values of the Safran Together Model.
• Promoting innovation and support innovative initiative.

Job Requirements

• Budget monitoring
• Reporting
• Industrial risk management
• Scheduling and resources management
• Ability to analyse, synthesize and propose solution
• HSE skills

Company Information

Safran is an international high‑technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets. Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking. Safran Aerosystems is one of the world leaders in aviation systems dedicated to aircraft and helicopter safety, as well as fluid and fuel management. The company is a key player in the field of flight safety (oxygen, evacuation, floatation) and participates in the decarbonization of aviation through enabling sustainable alternative fuels and new engine architectures. It has 5,200 employees in 7 countries.