Chief Mechanic 5

Job description / Role

The Chief Mechanic Level 5 will be a member of the AH-64E Maintenance Augmentation Team (MAT) in support of the Royal Saudi Land Forces Aviation Command (RSLFAC) customer as the Saudi AH-64D/E MAT Field Engineer. The Chief Mechanic is fully qualified and current in Aviation Intermediate Maintenance and Aviation Unit Maintenance (AVIM/AVUM) scheduled and unscheduled maintenance tasks to support the fleet.

Your key responsibilities will be:
- The MAT will receive transported aircraft and commence maintenance support
- Augment RSLFAC personnel in accomplishing AVIM/AVUM sustainment maintenance tasks
- Provide supplemental on-the-job training to customer personnel to augment formal classroom training
- The Chief Mechanic leads the development of scheduled maintenance programs for new aircraft
- Works with design team to ensure the development of supportable products and timely resolution of in-service issues for the company product user
- Negotiates basis of aircraft certification with the FAA or applicable regulator
- Represents customer operations in the development and revision of failure driven flight deck effects
- Provides industry expertise in the consultation and assessment related to the maintenance and maintainability of new or revised aircraft or subsystem designs
- Works under consultative direction.

Competencies:
- Develops advanced job practices, techniques, and standards.
- Develops new job applications based on professional principles, theories, and concepts.
- Recognized as a job expert within the company and consultant to top management.
- Develops solutions to problems of unusual complexity that require a high degree of ingenuity, creativity, and innovation.
- Develops solutions to unique challenges that may serve as precedent for future decisions.
- Initiates assignments under consultative direction toward long-range goals and objectives.
- Makes decisions that affect the financial, employee, or public relations posture of the company.
- Erroneous decisions or recommendations may result in failure to achieve goals critical to the major objectives of the company.
- Serves as prime consultant and external spokesperson for the company on highly significant matters relating to policies, programs, capabilities, and long-range goals and objectives.

Requirements

- Ten (10) years experience as an aircraft mechanic/maintenance technician.
- A&P License, or US Army Training Certification.
- Five (5) years experience utilizing computer-hosted interactive technical manuals, aircraft maintenance forms, and other aircraft related documentation.
- Be able to use the Microsoft Office suite to prepare various reports, charts, and other related documents.
- Five (5) years experience in contract execution.
- Desired - Five (5) years experience as a Production Control Officer/Supervisor in AH-64 aircraft maintenance.

About the Company

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defence, space and security systems. In the UK, we employ people across numerous sites, and were growing. Our long relationship with the UK aerospace industry, Armed Forces and commercial aviation sector dates back more than 75 years. Today, the UK remains a critically important market and supplier base, as well as a source of some of the world's most inventive technology partners.

We offer many career paths in fields such as engineering, aircraft assembly, communications systems, maintenance and defence equipment, and manufacture and supply of aerostructure components.

Join us and build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.