Licensed Aircraft Engineer - I

Job description / Role

Job Purpose

To ensure maintenance tasks and certification of aircraft, engines, and auxiliary power units (APU) during scheduled and unscheduled inputs are carried out to the highest possible standards of safety, quality, and serviceability. Ensure appropriate application of certification privileges in accordance with the limitations of company authorizations.

Job Accountabilities

• Business Objective: To carry out routine aircraft maintenance and servicing tasks compliant with manufacturers and local safety procedures. Ensure the zones and aircraft to which assigned are maintained in accordance with the documentation issued by approved authorities, ensuring compliance is maintained to the latest revisions. This is applicable to all technical publications, for example, aircraft documentation, technical notices, quality notices, engineering procedures manual, etc. Staff must ensure their personal approval and licensing requirements are valid and applicable to aircraft types worked through close liaison with quality assurance and GCAA. Audit processes and procedures to ensure the highest level of maintenance is achieved with the resources available. Ensure prompt attendance to all allocated aircraft arrivals and departures with the intent to maximize the opportunities during ground time and avoid operational delays and disruptions.
  
  
• Cost Control: Ensure all off-aircraft tasks, that is, spares handling, robustness, hold items, etc., are handled strictly in accordance with company procedures and all the relevant paperwork is actioned in a way that provides full transparency to all involved. Determine that any tooling or equipment used is serviceable and appropriate for the task and should be able to understand and use specialized tooling where required. Robustness procedures used as a method to reduce costs and ensure a right-first-time pocket of good practice is formulated to ensure costs are reduced by avoiding multiple attempts to rectify defects. Ensure troubleshooting follows laid down procedures and all tools used to ensure that fault rectification is carried out in the most expedient and cost-effective manner. Ensure that effective and efficient use of ordering of spares and materials takes place and that as a result, DBNUs are reduced to zero.
  
  
• Resources: Ensure resources and manpower available are supportive of the business needs, allowing targets and milestones set to be adequately met. To carry out any component changes as necessary as part of the troubleshooting process and as directed by the immediate supervisor. This will include the ability to obtain and understand AMM, IPC, or other manufacturer or vendor documentation required to carry out the task. Ensure that available resources are utilized fully to meet the business needs.
  
  
• Safety: Ensure that all activities performed and personnel responsible for are closely monitored to ensure the best possible application of safety rules and regulations are applied, ensuring full understanding and adherence to company procedures. Staff must highlight deficiencies and requirements (whether for aircraft or hangar use) through the effective use of reporting tools in support of the overall quality improvement process and actively participate in propagating and enhancing the group safety culture. Participate and promote in creating a safety culture in an effort to minimize accidents and highlight deficiencies or failures that can lead to such accidents. Ensure all work locations are kept clean and excellent housekeeping conditions are maintained. To avoid foreign object damage (FOD), will be vigilant in ensuring work areas (including the ramp), vehicles, stands, lockers, and toolboxes are all kept clean. Responsible for being fully conversant with airport safety regulations, including holding and maintaining an airport driving permit. Should be fully conversant with airport maneuvering area requirements and be able to fully comply.
  
  
• Communications: Establish effective up-down rapport with manager, senior engineers, and subordinates to maintain a seamless flow of information to highlight, detect, and address any scenarios or events that might be disruptive to the operation. Ensure all relevant reports pertaining to issues of service delays, incidents, and accidents are completed in detail identifying all elements leading up to events. This includes completion of the necessary documentation including all relevant information that will allow rectification of defects by concerned sections through short-term maintenance planning. Additional reviews of all other activities and actions must be performed to allow process improvements to be implemented as necessary.
  
  
• HR Reviews: Responsible for conducting performance reviews for staff under their direct control through the fair and just application of the Performance Matters! tool. Deficiencies or inability to meet objectives and competencies must be highlighted during interim reviews and an agreed course of action implemented to improve or correct any issues identified. Each to be effective in guiding, coaching, or counseling junior staff assigned to their team, including national and expatriate trainees, ensuring action and development plans are in place to address any areas of concern. Ensure all staff allocated to him or her and themselves efficiently clock on and clock off job cards in the process of performing their usual duties. Must be available to assume duties and responsibilities of shift manager or senior engineer shift whenever delegated by the section manager.
  
  
• Training: Attend training modules as and when required by the company to enhance skills and understanding that will benefit the business. Required to undergo recurrent human factors training, to comply with CAR 145 requirements every two years. Ensure that any training courses attended are turned into approvals as required within 3.5 months from completion of the attended course.
  
  
• Adaptability (Specific to EK Engineering): Be available to be deployed anywhere throughout the EK operation, including diversionary airfields to assist in the recovery process of an aircraft on ground (AOG), and/or the aircraft or component manufacturers' facilities to act as EK representative to oversee the final assembly of Emirates' new aircraft, supervise any outsourced maintenance work, and assist in the acceptance and delivery process. Also available for flying duties and postings to outstations to support the needs of EK operations support where required.

Qualifications & Experience

• National or higher national diploma or apprenticeship in mechanical, electronic, avionics, or aeronautical engineering or equivalent training with a reputable airline or an approved maintenance organization.
• Must have UAE GCAA, ICAO Type II, EASA 66 licence type rated in at least two Emirates aircraft types.
• Work Experience: 12+ years in aviation maintenance environment with at least 5 years certifying experience as a license holder.
• Knowledge/Skills: Fully conversant with air legislation and legal matters that relate to the operation and maintenance of aircraft to international standards. Job holder must have an ICAO Type II, EASA 66, or GCAA type rated licences on company aircraft as well as company approvals.

Note: Must have the right to work and live in Egypt.

About the Company

A fast-growing international airline with one of the youngest fleets in the sky and more than 400 awards for excellence worldwide.