Aircraft maintenance technician

British Airways; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading airline company in the UK is looking for Apprentices to train as Aircraft Maintenance Technicians. You will develop skills while ensuring aircraft are well-maintained. This role involves working on various aircraft and requires GCSEs in English/Science. Candidates must be 18+ and prepared to work different shifts. Accommodation provided in the first year for offsite training.

Responsibilities

• Learn, understand and assist in daily engineering operation.
• Ensure technically reliant aircraft are ready for dispatch.
• Maintain all aircraft to an approved maintenance schedule.
• Carry out routine servicing of all BA and customer aircraft.
• Ensure Health, Safety and Security standards are adhered to.
• Record maintenance tasks and reports accurately.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders.

Skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Problem-solving skills

Number skills

Analytical skills

Logical reasoning

Team working

Initiative

Patience

Education

GCSE in English/Science (grade 9–4)

Job description

You’ll work with & learn from incredibly talented engineers, developing your skills on real aircraft. You’ll work on all our aircraft fleets, gaining experience to help keep them in perfect working order. As well as comprehensive on‑the‑job training, you’ll study towards the qualifications you need to become an Aircraft Maintenance Technician.

Responsibilities

• To learn, understand and assist in our daily engineering operation.
• Assist with ensuring our technically reliant aircraft are ready for dispatch from our terminal operations.
• Maintain all our aircraft to an approved maintenance schedule.
• Carry out routine servicing of all BA and customer aircraft.
• Ensure Health, Safety and Security standards are adhered to, including completing appropriate regulatory and company documentation.
• Act as an ambassador for British Airways Apprenticeships by taking part in external and internal events and student engagement activity.
• Collect and interpret information or data to perform maintenance tasks.
• Record or enter information (paper based or electronic), e.g. job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, manufacturers’ documentation, asset management records, worksheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any reporting requirements.
• Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures, applying safe systems of work (e.g. risk assessments, COSHH, tool control and use of equipment and tools).
• Identify problems, collect evidence, analyse evidence, and determine the cause and maintenance activity required.
• Plan, organise and use resources to complete tasks.
• Follow instructions, e.g. manufacturers and maintenance procedures.
• Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Apply mathematical techniques and engineering principles to solve engineering problems.
• Apply maintenance methods and practices: remove, refit, replace, repair, systems or components.
• Test and check aircraft equipment or aircraft systems, e.g. built‑in test equipment, flight control systems, line replacement units or items.
• Assess condition of aircraft components and aircraft equipment, identify action required, e.g. visual inspections.
• Select, check, use, store and control tools and equipment, e.g. ground support equipment or test equipment.
• Apply good housekeeping prior to, during and after completion of the activity to the work area.
• Use information technology for document creation, communication and information management. Comply with GDPR and cyber‑security.
• Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and procedures, segregating resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
• Communicate with others verbally, e.g. colleagues and stakeholders.
• Communicate in writing.
• Consider the properties and characteristics of aircraft materials and the possibility of damage to aircraft whilst performing the activity, e.g. barely visible impact damage.
• Select aircraft consumables for carrying out maintenance activity.
• Carry out pre‑use checks of resources and ensure sufficient supplies of materials and consumables for maintenance activity.
• Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
• Apply equity, diversity and inclusion policies and procedures.
• Apply quality assurance procedures, e.g. completion of aircraft servicing schedules or aircraft technical logs.
• Apply team working principles.

Qualifications

• GCSE in English/Science (hold or be predicted to hold, grade 9–4 (A‑C)).
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Problem‑solving skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical reasoning
• Team working
• Initiative
• Patience

Additional Information

• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
• Year 1 – based offsite and living away from home (accommodation included). When back at Heathrow, placements can vary locations – Gatwick & Cardiff. You will need to be able to travel.
• 18 + must be prepared to work a variety of shifts (nights, late and early). Under 18 s will be restricted to 12‑hour shifts.
• Passport with 12‑month validity is required.

About British Airways

At British Airways, we take huge pride in our past – but we’re looking to the future as an airline that loves embracing the best of modern Britain. Our country’s creativity, diversity, style, wit and warmth are the special qualities that make us who we are. Now, we’re looking to build on this spirit and passion to make tomorrow even better. If you’re made the same way as us, discover how great it feels to connect Britain with the world, and the world with Britain like no one else.