Aviation Component Workshop Leader - P&L & Compliance

Heli-One (Norway) AS; Sola; On-site; NOK 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Heli-One (Norway) AS seeks a Business Manager Components to lead the component workshops with full P&L responsibility, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient Part-145 operations across multiple shops.

You will oversee planning, capacity, regulatory compliance, budgeting, and performance, working with customers and internal teams to deliver reliable delivery and growth. The role reports to the General Manager and requires 10+ years in aviation MRO or production management.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience within aviation maintenance, MRO, component workshops, production management, engineering, or related operational environments.
• Proven leadership experience managing complex production operations and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of Part-145 maintenance environments, compliance requirements, quality systems, and accountable manager responsibilities.
• Demonstrated business ownership mindset with experience in profit and loss responsibility, budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and performance management.
• Experience driving operational improvement, organizational change, and capability development in a regulated production environment.
• Strong planning, production control, capacity management, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Commercially focused, structured, analytical, and able to balance compliance, customer requirements, delivery performance, and financial outcomes.
• Experience using AMOS or equivalent MRO systems is desirable.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Professional proficiency in Norwegian is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe, compliant, and sustainable working environment across all component workshops.
• Hold full profit and loss responsibility for all Heli-One component workshops, including revenue, cost, margin, productivity, and financial performance.
• Act as Accountable Manager for relevant Part-145 component workshop activities, ensuring compliance with EASA, CAA, Norwegian regulatory, customer, and company requirements.
• Ensure sufficient planning, production control, capacity management, and resource allocation across all shops to meet customer commitments and operational targets.
• Lead complex component production environments, balancing quality, compliance, turnaround time, productivity, and cost performance.
• Drive business growth by developing existing capabilities, supporting customer requirements, and preparing the organization for new product lines, new workshop scopes, and future market opportunities.
• Lead improvement and change initiatives to strengthen efficiency, delivery performance, quality, cost control, and scalability across the workshop organization.
• Develop and monitor workshop budgets, forecasts, KPIs, productivity measures, financial performance, and corrective actions.
• Ensure effective collaboration with planning, logistics, engineering, technical records, compliance, quality, sales, and customer support functions.
• Build and develop leadership capability, accountability, and performance culture within the component workshop organization.
• Identify operational risks, capacity constraints, compliance exposures, and improvement opportunities, and ensure timely mitigation.

Job description

Heli-One (Norway) AS seeks a Business Manager Components to lead the component workshops with full P&L responsibility, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient Part-145 operations across multiple shops.

You will oversee planning, capacity, regulatory compliance, budgeting, and performance, working with customers and internal teams to deliver reliable delivery and growth. The role reports to the General Manager and requires 10+ years in aviation MRO or production management.