Aviation MRO Components: P&L & Operations Leader

CHC Helicopter; Sola; On-site; NOK 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

CHC Helicopter in Norway seeks a Business Manager Components to lead multiple component workshops with full P&L responsibility, ensuring safe, compliant, efficient operations and growth across workshop capabilities.

The role requires 10+ years in aviation maintenance or MRO, proven leadership of complex production operations, and strong Part-145 compliance knowledge; English fluency is essential, Norwegian is desirable. On-site role in Rogaland, Sola region.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of aviation maintenance or MRO leadership experience.
• Proven leadership managing complex production operations and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of Part-145 maintenance environments and compliance.
• Demonstrated business ownership with P&L, budgeting, forecasting and cost control.
• Experience driving operational improvement and organizational change in regulated production.
• Strong planning, production control, capacity management, and stakeholder management.
• Commercially focused, analytical, balancing compliance, customer requirements, delivery and financial outcomes.
• Experience using AMOS or equivalent MRO systems (desirable).
• Fluent in English; professional proficiency in Norwegian desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe, compliant, and sustainable workshop environment across all component workshops.
• Hold full P&L responsibility for all Heli-One component workshops.
• Act as Accountable Manager for relevant Part-145 activities, ensuring compliance with EASA, CAA, Norwegian regulatory, customer, and company requirements.
• Ensure planning, production control, capacity management across all shops to meet customer commitments and operational targets.
• Lead complex component production environments balancing quality, turnaround time, productivity and cost.
• 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.
• Perform other duties as required.

Skills

Leadership

Aviation MRO

Part-145 Compliance

P&L Ownership

Budgeting & Forecasting

Operational Improvement

Planning & Capacity

Stakeholder Management

AMOS experience

English Fluency

Norwegian language

Job description

CHC Helicopter in Norway seeks a Business Manager Components to lead multiple component workshops with full P&L responsibility, ensuring safe, compliant, efficient operations and growth across workshop capabilities.

The role requires 10+ years in aviation maintenance or MRO, proven leadership of complex production operations, and strong Part-145 compliance knowledge; English fluency is essential, Norwegian is desirable. On-site role in Rogaland, Sola region.