Flight Data Specialist in Feltham

A career without limits. As the nation’s flag carrier, we take great pride in connecting Britain with the world and the world with Britain. It’s something we’ve been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world’s first international scheduled air service between London and Paris. This originality has been in our blood since day one. It’s the spirit we share with the people that fly with us, our partners, and our colleagues.

The role: A highly organised and technically skilled Flight Data Specialist is sought to join our Avionics & Flight Data team. In this role you will have responsibility for maintaining serviceability and regulatory compliance for flight data recording systems on BA’s fleet. Primary focus will be handling FDR, CVR and DLR readouts and compiling verification and intelligibility reporting. You will also collaborate with other teams to assist in resolving recording system defects and supporting incident investigations.

What you’ll do:

• Responsible for supervising performance of flight recorders, to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Reporting of defects and observations to technical support for rectification, and follow up actions.
• Develop a level of technical expertise on flight recorder systems, including Digital Flight Data Recorder, Cockpit Voice Recorder and Datalink recording, along with related aircraft systems, working under technical mentorship.
• Auditing of aircraft maintenance tasks to ensure receipt of data.
• Processing of recorder data through data conversion and analysis software.
• Analysis of data quality, compilation of reports, maintenance of documentation in accordance with regulation.
• Processing of media used for aircraft data download. Media preparation and distribution.
• Maintains in depth solid understanding of the business area and key collaborators.
• Carries out business development and change initiatives in support of the team.
• Maintain software systems in response to fleet changes.
• Develops procedures and process improvements.

What you’ll bring to British Airways:

• Good communication skills, comfortable presenting to small groups.
• Confident in challenging and influencing others.
• Builds positive relationships with key collaborators.
• Manages projects/work requests successfully from start to finish and delivers in a timely manner to a high standard.
• Prioritises own work to meet business requirements.
• Works well as part of a team and supports other team members as appropriate.
• Calm and professional when under pressure.
• Pro-actively shares knowledge and coaches others in their areas of expertise.
• Stakeholder management.
• Ability to understand aircraft equipment functionality and representation on data traces.
• Experience of applying analytical capabilities.
• Able to implement process improvement through the use of lean/CI techniques (desirable).
• Be able to demonstrate ongoing appropriate competency for role including IT systems and awareness of procedures and regulations.
• Maintenance of various documentation required by regulation.

Your experience:

• ONC / Level 3 or equivalent - Essential.
• Engineering apprenticeship or equivalent technical industry experience - Essential.
• Demonstrated sound engineering judgement - Desirable.
• Understanding of how investigations are carried out and able to relate to role - Desirable.

Inclusion & Diversity: We recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity, and identity to work. We encourage people from all backgrounds to be part of our journey to become a Better BA.