JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE
Purpose: To ensure that the flydubai fleet is maintained in accordance with the approved maintenance programme as specified by the legal and mandatory requirements of the current GCAA regulations.
Key Activities
- Ensuring that the maintenance planned for the flydubai fleet enables full aircraft availability to support the operational flying programme.
- Ensuring efficient and cost effective planning of maintenance around flydubai fleet network.
- Planning of line maintenance checks, acceptable deferred defects, cabin deferred defects, base maintenance and lease return checks.
- Reviewing of forthcoming maintenance across the fleet ensuring flydubai remains in regulatory compliance at all times.
- Compiling, auditing and issuing of maintenance work packages and supporting data ensuring the standards, accuracy and quality of planned maintenance on the operated fleet.
- Overseeing A/C & Component modification programmes.
- Aircraft maintenance check slot planning liaising with Commercial, Operations, Line stations and subcontracted maintenance providers to agree suitable downtime, resource and facilities.
- Interfacing with Commercial, Operations, third parties, line stations and MROs as required to achieve the maintenance plan.
- Ensuring receipt and update of aircraft maintenance records and the engineering computer system.
- Providing out of hours planning support when requested ensuring the safe, punctual, efficient and cost effective operation of the fleet
- Management reporting on scheduled maintenance activity.
- Maintain a handover log in AMOS.
- Answer Technical Assistance Queries in AMOS.
REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Qualification
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Secondary School Education GCSE (Engineering degree preferred (EASA B2 or B1 as alternative))
Experience
- Minimum 5 years previous experience in similar role desirable
- Current aircraft maintenance records management systems and techniques.
- Line and base maintenance planning and airline operations
Knowledge / Skills
- Current aircraft maintenance planning systems and techniques.
- The use of IT systems including Microsoft Suite and airline/MRO Systems.
- Safety/Airworthiness Awareness and GCAA regulations
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Team work
- Problem solving and decision making
- Organizing for results
- Attention to detail & quality
- Effective communication
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Dubai-based flydubai strives to remove barriers to travel and enhance connectivity between different cultures across its ever-expanding network. Since launching its operations in 2009, flydubai has:
- Created a network of more than 90 destinations in 44 countries.
- Opened up 62 new routes that did not previously have direct air links to Dubai or were not served by a UAE national carrier from Dubai.
- Operates a single fleet type of 58 Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft and will take delivery of more than 100 aircraft by the end of 2023.
In addition, flydubai's agility and flexibility as a young airline has enhanced Dubai's economic development, in line with the Government of Dubai's vision, by creating trade and tourism flows in previously underserved markets.
