Aviation MRO Workshop Manager

Heli-One; Norway; On-site; NOK 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Heli-One in Norway seeks a Business Manager Components to lead multiple component workshops, ensuring safe, compliant operations and profitable performance across all sites.

You will own budgets, forecasts, and KPIs; drive improvement programs; coordinate with planning, logistics, engineering, and compliance; and develop leadership across the workshop network. Fluency in English is required; Norwegian language is desirable.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership of complex production/maintenance operations.
• Experience in aviation maintenance/MRO environments.
• Knowledge of Part-145 requirements and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, cost control and performance management.
• Experience using MRO systems (AMOS) 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.
• Perform other duties as required.
• 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.

Skills

Leadership experience

Profit and loss management

Planning & capacity management

Budgeting & forecasting

Stakeholder management

Part-145 knowledge

English fluency

Commercial mindset

Quality & compliance mindset

Tools

AMOS

Job description

Heli-One in Norway seeks a Business Manager Components to lead multiple component workshops, ensuring safe, compliant operations and profitable performance across all sites.

You will own budgets, forecasts, and KPIs; drive improvement programs; coordinate with planning, logistics, engineering, and compliance; and develop leadership across the workshop network. Fluency in English is required; Norwegian language is desirable.