Aviation Operations Engineering Manager (Hiring Immediately)

ZipRecruiter; Horley; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading team at London Gatwick as an Engineering Manager for Baggage Systems. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability of critical baggage infrastructure while leading a skilled team. With an attractive salary and benefits, it's an opportunity to thrive in a vibrant career environment.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Share scheme

Pension

Lifestyle insurance

Training for personal development

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in an engineering discipline.
• Proven proactive leadership to promote health and safety culture.
• Experience in leading a maintenance team for critical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop Baggage Engineering team to deliver maintenance plan.
• Manage cost and contract for operational budget.
• Ensure optimal performance of Baggage assets and system safety.

Skills

Proactive Leadership

Health and Safety Culture

Team Development

Performance Improvement

Education

Degree in Engineering

HND in Engineering with Experience

Job description

Job Description

Engineering Manager – Baggage)

From £59,795 + £4,750 Flex Allowance + Up to 20% Bonus + Benefits

Great journeys happen at London Gatwick

Where will your career take you?

The buzz, the energy, the sheer magic of travel… you can feel it in the air all around you. Here, you'll be part of an energetic team and a vibrant community. We can help you thrive in a career that's a world away from the everyday.

What's the role?

The core purpose of this role is to deliver a safe, efficient and resilient Baggage System – a system that delivers one of three major flows within the Airport (the others being aircraft and pax). This is achieved by taking full accountability for the Baggage Systems to deliver high levels of system safety, reliability and availability of what is one of Gatwick's operationally critical infrastructure systems.

The role requires strong leadership of the maintenance team and the effective management of 3rdparties and stakeholders.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and develop Baggage Engineering team of highly skilled Technicians to deliver maintenance plan.




• Ensure optimal performance of Baggage asset base including performance improvements to improve system availability achieving against OBP / CSS metrics.




• Drive EH&S culture across all teams to reduce incidents & promote safe working environment.




• Produces effective communication and reports to all stakeholders, such as Gal teams, Airlines & handling agents to enable operation.




• Management of cost and Contract management to ensure operational budget.

Do you have what we're looking for?

• Educated to degree level in an engineering discipline ; educated to HND level in engineering discipline with significant experience accepted.




• Proven proactive leadership to promote health and safety culture, ensuring processes and procedures protect employees and contractors.




• Lead, manage and develop the baggage team to deliver against Gatwick strategic priorities.




• Ensure performance of systems meets and exceeds required OBP, CSS measures.




• Lead failure investigations to determine root causes associated with baggage system and operational impacts to business.

What's in it for you?We value our people and reward every employee fairly with a highly competitive package, enhanced by an annual bonus, share scheme, pension, and lifestyle insurance. There's also plenty of opportunities for career progression, as well as training to support your personal and professional development.

At London Gatwick we're also very well connected, just 30 minutes from central London and directly linked to over 100 towns and cities. Whether you prefer to travel by cycle, electric car, or train, we aim to make your journey to work as convenient and cost-effective as possible.

Whatever your interests and ambitions, wherever you want your journey to take you, London Gatwick could be the place where your career really does… well… take off.

Click apply to begin your journey, your way with London Gatwick.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.