Asset Manager - Powerplant in London

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 requires an Asset Manager to take responsibility for ensuring engine, APU and nacelle availability to support the fleet and for the delivery of technical and commercial initiatives. The role requires working cross departmentally and also with external suppliers. The successful applicant requires technical knowledge of aircraft engines and the regulatory environment, combined with proven influencing skills and experience of delivering key projects.

What you’ll do:

• Help develop a model that can be used to forecast engine maintenance requirements.
• Manage suppliers to deliver on their commercial obligations and maximise the commercial advantage to BA.
• Drive optimal technical decisions in the wider team and lead technical discussions across departments and suppliers using expertise.
• Be influential in delivering the finance plan.
• Incorporate technical standards, policy and strategic direction to Powerplant’s daily business.
• Act as a coordinator across British Airways including both internal and external suppliers, customers and stakeholders regarding engine, APU and nacelle deliveries.
• Deliver a portfolio of projects and programmes of commercial value to the business.
• Coach and mentor team members in contributing to the delivery of the business plan.
• Support the Manager in developing a high-performance team culture and behaviours in line with the company values.
• Aware of fleet reliability, monitoring fleet technical performance and developing improvement plans to ensure performance targets are achieved.
• Lead or technically support formal investigations in line with the corporate safety management manual.
• Prioritise workload and act as appropriate to maintain compliance with all appropriate company procedures, policies, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Report, present and communicate operational and business performance and significant events to senior stakeholders in a timely and effective manner.

What you’ll bring to British Airways:

• Proven ability to leverage technical knowledge and combine with commercial skills.
• Ability to demonstrate commercial success achieved by analysis and negotiation with suppliers.
• Strong influencer and collaborator capable of driving key decisions and projects through.
• Ability to exercise independent professional judgement within an overall business context.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to distil complex technical information into clear simple messages.
• Capable of effective leadership and supervision of a team.
• Highly self-motivated and able to lead change, large projects and process improvement initiatives.
• Calm and professional when working in a high-pressure environment.
• Experience dealing with ambiguity and complexity.
• Commercial acumen.

Your experience:

• Must hold or be able to gain CAA part 21, part M and part 145 authorisations.
• HNC/HND/degree level or equivalent in an approved Engineering subject.
• Recognised Engineering Apprenticeship or equivalent industry experience.
• Detailed technical knowledge of engines and the regulatory environment.
• Commercial acumen and application of it resolving issues.

Inclusion & Diversity:

At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work. Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves.