Part-145 Maintenance Manager

ecube; Barry; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ecube has an exceptional opportunity for a highly motivated, career focused, senior professional seeking a role as Accountable Manager at St Athan. Based on site at St Athan, you will lead the operational team to deliver safe, efficient, and cost-focused aircraft transition services to ecube’s airline and lessor customers, driving operational excellence through leadership and regulatory compliance.

You will influence stakeholders, implement business improvements, and ensure robust processes

Qualifications

• 10 years or more experience in aircraft maintenance.
• Experience at senior level in an MRO function.
• Strong leadership and management skills for delivery.
• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement with business cases.
• Liaison with aviation industry leaders, including lessors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ecube Maintenance Operations team and provide direction.
• Ensure compliance with ecube Part 145 MOEs and relevant regs.
• Enact safety strategy and influence stakeholders on safety aspects.
• Manage non-compliances with robust processes and future-proofing.
• Develop relationships with regulatory bodies and drive KPI performance.
• Provide technical support to the operations team when required.
• Design and deliver processes to meet regulatory and business requirements.
• Monitor operational KPIs and take action to maintain performance.

Skills

Aircraft maintenance experience

MRO leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Safety management systems (SMS)

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree or equivalent

EASA Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance License (preferred)

Tools

SMS & QA practices

Job description

Summary

ecube has an exceptional opportunity for a highly motivated, career focused, senior professional seeking a role in a challenging, fast-paced and growing business as Accountable Manager at St Athan. - Based on site at St Athan, the purpose of the role is to lead the operational team to deliver safe, efficient, and cost-focused aircraft transition services to ecube’s airline and lessor customers. - A key objective of the role is to achieve operational excellence through leadership, positive culture and implementation of business improvement strategies, tools and techniques whilst remaining compliant with all relevant regulatory processes and procedures.

Summary

ecube has an exceptional opportunity for a highly motivated, career focused, senior professional seeking a role in a challenging, fast-paced and growing business as Accountable Manager at St Athan. - Based on site at St Athan, the purpose of the role is to lead the operational team to deliver safe, efficient, and cost-focused aircraft transition services to ecube’s airline and lessor customers. - A key objective of the role is to achieve operational excellence through leadership, positive culture and implementation of business improvement strategies, tools and techniques whilst remaining compliant with all relevant regulatory processes and procedures.

Main responsibilities

• Lead the ecube Maintenance Operations team.
• Provide strong leadership, direction, and management to the ecube team with a results-oriented focus across safety, people, quality, service delivery and cost.
• Responsible for ecube ensuring compliance with the ecube Part 145 MOEs and relevant regulations.
• Enactment of the safety strategy and make a proactive contribution to the overall safety impact of the business by influencing key stakeholders so that they understand all safety aspects relating to service delivery.
• Determine requisite actions required for the management of any non-compliances ensuring that robust processes are established, and a working framework applied to all future non-compliance issues.
• Develop and maintain a positive stakeholder relationship with the relevant regulatory bodies
• Lead, organise, measure, and drive the performance of the operations team in support of company goals and objectives in a healthy challenging environment.
• Provide technical support to the operational team when required.
• Design, develop, and deliver management processes that are required to comply with the relevant regulatory and business requirements.
• Proactively measure, monitor, and evaluate operational KPI’s taking appropriate actions to ensure levels of performance are not compromised.

Key attributes

• A credible team leader and accomplished MRO Leader with well-developed communication, influencing and negotiation skills gained in organisations undergoing significant transformation; well-rounded skills in making the complex simple.
• A people focused approach to leadership tailoring your approach to achieve the best from the collective team.
• Strong, credible impact, with a demonstrated capability to resolve conflict; build, maintain and utilise relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve business goals.
• Strong relationship builder across the organisation (internal & external).

Skills/experience

• 10 years or more experience in aircraft maintenance, preferably with experience working with aircraft lessors.
• Degree or equivalent of knowledge or skill acquired through experience, other qualifications, and training/development.
• Experience of operating at senior level in an MRO function, evidenced by applying strong leadership and management skills to ensure successful delivery of outputs and outcomes.
• Proven ability to manage a range of project types and complex business initiatives and change programmes.
• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement showing clear commercial acumen including the development and assurance of business cases.
• Liaison experience with the other aviation industry leaders (particularly lessors).
• Working knowledge of inspection procedures, methods, equipment and accepted industry standards.
• Strong background in safety management systems (SMS) and quality assurance practices within the aviation maintenance industry.
• Previous Experience as a Form 4 post holder.
• EASA Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance License (preferred).

Location, Working Hours & Benefits

• St Athan HQ, South Wales
• Full Time