Business Manager Components

CHC Group Ltd.; Stavanger; On-site; NOK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

CHC Group Ltd. is seeking a Business Manager Components to oversee multiple Heli-One component workshops with full P&L responsibility and accountable manager duties for Part-145 activities.

You will drive continuous improvement, ensure regulatory compliance, and coordinate with planning, engineering, and production teams to ensure safe, reliable delivery. You will lead complex production environments, plan capacity, and position the organization for new product lines and market opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of aviation maintenance or related operational experience.
• Proven leadership overseeing complex production operations with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of Part-145 maintenance environments and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain safe, compliant, and sustainable workshop operations with P&L responsibility.
• Lead capacity planning, production control, and resource allocation across shops.
• Act as accountable manager for Part-145 activities within the component workshop scope.
• Drive growth by expanding capabilities and preparing for new product lines and markets.
• Develop budgets, forecasts, KPIs, and corrective actions across workshops.
• Collaborate with planning, logistics, engineering, compliance, quality, sales, and support.

Skills

Leadership experience

Profit and loss

Stakeholder management

Planning & production control

Compliance understanding

Change management

Financial acumen

Tools

AMOS

Job description

Reach Beyond!

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.

Role Summary

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

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

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

Key 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.

Qualifications, Skills & Attributes

• 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.