Role: B1 Licensed Engineer - Shift Leader (UKCAA License essential)
Salary: Upon application
Location: Gatwick
Hours: Shift work - 40 hours per week
Team Leadership
- Maintain awareness of company Health & Safety policy and to ensure that staff under their control practice approved methods to minimise risk to personnel or equipment. 
- Also, to encourage a safety culture among shift members and advise the Station Manager of any potential hazards identified or improvements that could be made. 
- To promote a safety conscious culture. 
- Effective Management, development, and motivation of the team. 
- To encourage a strong work ethic and encourage staff interaction across shift personal. 
- To lead by example. 
- To manage all shift activities and responsibilities ensuring efficient use of manpower whilst ensuring the activities contribute to the continued airworthiness of the based aircraft with expedient clear up of defects. 
- To establish and encourage communications and good working relations across all reporting areas and interfacing departments. 
- To assess all work requests and requirements with particular attention to tooling, manpower and downtime. 
- To manage and maintain a safe and efficient line maintenance operation. 
- Aid in maintaining an efficient and effective shift to aid the continued airworthiness of Customer Aircraft. 
- Ensure shift levels and skills are sufficient to achieve planned workload in line with Production Planning Process and bring discrepancies to the attention of Engineering Management. 
- To ensure a good relationship is maintained between all line stations and interfacing departments. 
- To review daily the Customer work requests, ensure spares have been identified/received and placed on Pre-load. 
- To aid Customer Airline achieving its on-time performance targets. 
- To ensure all responsible staff are aware of their responsibilities and updates to relevant procedures. 
- To ensure the line station is maintained in a clean, safe and efficient manner during their period of duty. 
Regulatory and Budgetary Requirements
- To aid in ensuring all relevant Station, EASA and CAA regulations are met. 
- To ensure relevant procedures are followed, maintained and reviewed ensuring compliance with all regulations. 
- To ensure all relevant directions, procedures and directives are followed and correctly read and recorded. 
- Ensure all cost savings or potential overspends are brought to the attention of the Station Manager 
- To ensure all overtime requirements are brought to the attention of the Station Manager preferably in advance for approval. 
- To ensure all H & S issues are assessed and brought to the attention of the Station Manager. 
Line Maintenance
- To ensure all relevant staff on their shift are aware of all H & S obligations and responsibilities. 
- Ensure staffing levels and skills are sufficient to fulfil shift requirements 
- To ensure a good relationship is established and maintained between all line stations and interfacing departments 
- To aid the Customer Airlines on-time performance record 
- To ensure all responsible staff are regularly briefed and aware of their responsibilities and updates. 
- To ensure the line station is maintained in a clean, safe and efficient manner 
- Complete and update as required – 
- Line Station Status 
- Production Plan 
- Handover Diary 
- Charge sheets 
- Daily Station Teams update sheet 
- Staff Temp Monitoring Form 
- Station Cleaning Register 
- Verify all tools and equipment have been returned and signed back in at the end of shift 
- Delay Reports 
- Customer Daily Reporting requirements 
Communication
- At the beginning of each shift, be conversant with any ongoing problems, and maintain an accurate shift Log throughout the duty period, and fully brief the oncoming shift of events. 
- To ensure good communication is established and maintained across their shift and interfacing departments. 
- To attend meetings as required between shift supervisors, Operational Maintenance Manager and interfacing departments. 
- To keep Customer MOC informed at all times about the serviceability and maintenance condition of the aircraft. 
- Maintain an awareness of the latest Technical Instructions, NTE’s and Procedures from all sources. 
Ad Hoc
- To carry out tasks as detailed by the Station Manager 
- Ensure vehicle and ground equipment checks are completed and certified to comply with CAP 642 requirements. 
- Deputise for the Station Manager in his absence