Head of Maintenance

Head of Maintenance to join our Senior Leadership Team. Reporting directly to the Managing Director and Accountable Manager, The Head of Maintenance is UK CAA Nominated Post Holder position that provides crucial leadership for all maintenance activities.

• You will lead the Engineering Department to provide controlled, efficient and compliant maintenance, modifications and repair of Leonardo, Airbus, Bell and Sikorsky helicopters.
• You will manage the Base Managers and support them to effectively lead, motivate and manage their teams.
• Through the Maintenance Planning and Logistics teams you will prioritise tasking and drive continuous improvement in quality, efficiency and productivity.
• You will play a key role in communicating with clients and ensuring customer satisfaction remains high.
• You will ensure we continue to meet compliance requirements, and you will contribute to our excellent relationships with our Regulators.
• You will contribute to, and support the implementation of the Company’s strategy and plans.

About you

You will already have experience of working within a Part 145 MRO environment, probably as a Shift Manager, Base Maintenance Manager or Head of Maintenance. You will have excellent people skills and extensive experience of dealing with employees, customers and working well with your peers. You will have the ability to understand the differing, and sometimes complex, maintenance demands in a tight commercial environment. You will have a solution-focussed attitude and creative ability to help to your teams to make the right decisions. You will be flexible, displaying a can-do attitude that results in a motivated workforce and resilient, commercially viable outputs.

Skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Able to hold the Regulatory Nominated Person responsibility for Part 145
  Background as a Part 66 B1.3, B2 Cat C rotary wing licensed aircraft engineer with demonstrable progression through leadership roles is essential
  Expert knowledge of Rotary Wing Aircraft Maintenance Management principles and practices
  Practical application-level knowledge of ISO 9001 in the MRO environment
  Practical application-level knowledge of Safety Management System principles and requirements as applicable in the MRO environment
  Demonstrable people and cultural change management experience
  Excellent in nurturing, mentoring, guiding and influencing personnel
  Excellent in communicating / presenting across all boundaries, internal and external, both verbally and written.

Main responsibilities will involve:

• Ensuring that the MRO complies with all applicable Aviation Regulations at all times.
  Ownership and management of the Maintenance Organisation Exposition (MOE), including all relevant mandatory and/or supporting procedures and other relevant documentation.
  Ensure that all facilities used for the performance of planned aircraft or component maintenance complies with the requirements of all applicable Aviation Regulations.
  Ensure that an active maintenance man-hour plan remains in place at all times, indicating that the MRO has sufficient competent staff to plan, perform, supervise, inspect and quality monitor the MRO in accordance with all applicable Aviation Regulatory Approvals.
  Ensuring that the MRO shall have available, and use, the necessary equipment and tools to perform the approved scope of work.
  In support of the Company Safety Management System (SMS), ensuring that any condition of the aircraft or component identified, that has resulted, or may result in, an unsafe condition that hazards seriously the flight safety of an aircraft, is reported.
  In support of the Company SMS, perform and document Risk Assessments where necessary, applying affective and effective controls and/or mitigation.