Quality & Safety Engineer (QSE)

Pan Asia Pacific Aviation Services Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Pan Asia Pacific Aviation Services Limited is seeking a qualified QA professional in Hong Kong to oversee audits, supplier assessments and compliance with national aviation authorities. The role reports to the Assistant Quality & Safety Manager and focuses on maintaining airworthiness records and certifying staff.

You will coordinate training, evaluate external services, and ensure that manuals and procedures stay current.

Qualifications

• Tertiary education with relevant university degree / diploma an advantage.
• ICAO standard license / HKAR-66 AML or equivalent with aircraft and engine ratings preferred; or QA experience in aircraft maintenance (≥3 yrs).
• Driving license with airport operations experience an advantage.
• Good command of written and spoken English and Cantonese; fluent Mandarin an advantage.
• A good team player with communication, people management and facilitation skills to drive changes and continuous business improvement.
• Proactive, customer focused and business minded.

Responsibilities

• QSE, directly reporting to the Assistant Quality & Safety Manager, is responsible for audits and corrective actions with remedial timescales.
• Assessing sub-contractors to extend the quality system and meet national aviation authorities’ requirements.
• Assessing external specialist services used by the company for maintenance work.
• Assessing suppliers of new and used components and materials for quality alignment.
• Ensuring maintenance organization expositions and procedures meet authority requirements.
• Maintaining mandatory airworthiness records and relevant statistics.
• Ensuring airworthiness standards for supply, storage and issue of parts and materials are met, including stores inspections.
• Investigating incident/accident reports regarding airworthiness and customer concerns.
• Conducting surveillance audits of facilities to ensure standards are maintained.
• Handling Certification Authorizations for qualified certifying staff.
• Keeping manuals and technical literature up-to-date; issuing technical circulars and data.
• Coordinating training for technical staff to comply with authority requirements.
• Sourcing external training providers and organizing cost-effective training.

Skills

Team player

Communication skills

People management

Facilitation skills

Continuous improvement

Proactive

Business mindset

English & Cantonese

Education

Tertiary education with relevant university degree/diploma

ICAO standard license / HKAR-66 AML or equivalent

Quality assurance experience in aircraft maintenance (≥3 yrs)

Driving license with airport operations experience

Job description

• Tertiary education with relevant university degree / diploma an advantage
• Appropriate recognized professional qualification such as ICAO standard license, e.g. a valid HKAR-66 AML or its equivalent, endorsed with appropriate aircraft and engine type ratings preferred; or relevant quality assurance experience in aircraft maintenance of at least 3 years
• Driving license with airport operations experience an advantage
• Good command of written and spoken English and Cantonese; fluent Mandarin an advantage
• A good team player with excellent communication, people management and facilitation skills with the ability to drive changes and achieve continuous business improvement
• Proactive, customer focused and business minded

Qualifications

• Tertiary education with relevant university degree / diploma an advantage
• Appropriate recognized professional qualification such as ICAO standard license, e.g. a valid HKAR-66 AML or its equivalent, endorsed with appropriate aircraft and engine type ratings preferred; or relevant quality assurance experience in aircraft maintenance of at least 3 years
• Driving license with airport operations experience an advantage
• Good command of written and spoken English and Cantonese; fluent Mandarin an advantage
• A good team player with excellent communication, people management and facilitation skills with the ability to drive changes and achieve continuous business improvement
• Proactive, customer focused and business minded

Responsibilities

• QSE, directly reporting to the Assistant Quality & Safety Manager (AQSM), is responsible for
• Conducting audits in accordance with the established quality audit programme, and ensuring that any observed non-compliance or sub-standards are brought to the attention of the person concerned via his/ her manager, with a timescale for remedial action to be completed.
• Assessing sub-contractors for extension of the quality system and maintaining the expertise necessary to be able to do so, to fulfill the relevant national aviation authorities’ requirement.
• Assessing external specialist services required to be used by the company in the performance of maintenance.
• Assessing suppliers of new and used components, and materials, for satisfactory product quality in relation to the needs of the organization.
• Ensuring the Maintenance Organization Expositions and associated procedures manuals are up-to-date with the relevant national aviation authorities’ requirements.
• Maintaining mandatory records relative to airworthiness requirements and such other records and statistics as may be required.
• Ensuring the appropriate airworthiness standards and requirements relative to supply, storage and issue of aircraft parts and materials are complied with, including responsibility for inspection of bonded and quarantine stores and associated stores inspection procedures.
• Conducting investigations of all Incident / Accident reports in regards of airworthiness requirements and/or customer concerns.
• Conducting surveillance audits on the company, its facilities or other agent facilities to ensure that company and regulatory standards are maintained.
• Handling the application and issuance of the Certification Authorizations for the qualified certifying staff.
• Ensuring the upkeep of current manuals and technical literature; and the issuance of technical circulars and distribution of technical data.
• Ensuring the training and continuation training for all technical staff are in compliance with the relevant aviation authorities’ requirements.
• Sourcing of external training service providers and organizing training cost-effectively.