Business Manager Components

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

CHC provides unmatched helicopter services that enable our customers to reach beyond – to work in remote and challenging destinations that limit others – and come home safely. We are dedicated to our purpose of getting our customers where they need to be, when they need to be there, anywhere in the world – safely and reliably. All you have to do is get on board!

At CHC, we pride ourselves on our values and culture

Accountability

Take pride and ownership of our actions and results.

Collaboration

Working together with transparency and trust to drive continuous improvement.

Care

Creating a safe and sustainable environment for all.

Integrity

Doing what's right and fostering a culture of respect.

Excellence

Prioritizing quality services and setting industry standards.

The Business Manager Components has full profit and loss responsibility for all Heli-One component workshops and is accountable for delivering safe, compliant, efficient, and commercially sustainable workshop operations. The role is responsible for ensuring sufficient planning, production capacity, regulatory compliance, and operational performance across all shops, while driving growth, change, and continuous improvement.

The Business Manager Components will lead complex production environments across multiple component workshops, ensure readiness for new product lines and workshop capabilities, and work closely with customers, internal support functions, compliance, planning, engineering, and production teams to secure reliable delivery and future business growth.

The Business Manager Components reports directly to the General Manager and holds the nominated Accountable Manager responsibility for Part-145 activities within the component workshop scope, as applicable.

• 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.