Maintenance Programme Engineer

Job description / Role

Purpose: To ensure that the Maintenance Programme/s associated with the flydubai fleet are managed and developed in accordance with the requirements of the current GCAA regulations.

Key Activities
- Ensuring that the Aircraft Maintenance Programme (AMP) is controlled, managed and developed as required by the continuous airworthiness requirements of the regulator, OEM and flydubai reliability programme.
- Ensuring that the AMP is maintained in an optimized condition for flydubai operation.
- Working with Technical Planners in relation to work packaging in order to ensure that the maintenance planned enables optimum aircraft availability to support the operational flying programme and efficient and cost effective planning of maintenance.
- Responsible for effective taskcard management associated with the AMP.
- Responsible for coordinating regular meetings required for the management of the AMP.
- Responsible for AMP alignment with respect to the phase-in and phase-out of aircraft and assist in the development of associated workscopes during the delivery and lease return process.
- Development of procedures associated with the management of the AMP.
- Liaising with the regulator as required for the management of the approval of the AMP.
- Represent flydubai at industry meetings in respect to the management and development of the AMP.
- Providing out of hours support when requested ensuring the safe, punctual, efficient and cost effective operation of the fleet
- Management reporting
- Closure of occurrence reports and audit findings

Requirements

Minimum Qualification
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Secondary School Education GCSE (Engineering degree preferred (EASA B2 or B1 as alternative))

Experience
- Minimum 5 years' experience in similar role is desirable
- Proven background in maintenance programme management

Knowledge / Skills
- Good understanding of continuous airworthiness requirements
- Good understanding of current aircraft planning systems and techniques and their relation to aircraft maintenance programmes
- The use of IT systems including Microsoft Suite and airline/MRO Systems.
- Safety/Airworthiness Awareness and GCAA regulations

CORE COMPETENCIES
- Customer Focus
- Team work
- Effective Communication
- Personal Accountability & Commitment to achieve
- Resilience and Flexibility (Can do attitude)
- Strategic Thinking
- Business Acumen
- Inspiring & Developing others
- Decision Making

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.