Authorised Person/Maintenance Manager - Part 145

Our client has an exceptional opportunity for a highly motivated, career-focused, senior professional seeking a role in a challenging, fast-paced and growing business as a Part 145 Maintenance Manager at St Athan. Based on site at St Athan, the purpose of the role is to lead the operational team to deliver safe, efficient, and cost-focused aircraft transition services to the Company’s airline and lessor customers.

A key objective of the role is to achieve operational excellence through leadership, positive culture and implementation of business improvement strategies, tools and techniques whilst remaining compliant with all relevant regulatory processes and procedures.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead the Maintenance Operations team.
• Provide strong leadership, direction, and management to the team with a results-oriented focus across safety, people, quality, service delivery and cost.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with the Company Part 145 MOEs and relevant regulations.
• Enactment of the safety strategy and make a proactive contribution to the overall safety impact of the business by influencing key stakeholders so that they understand all safety aspects relating to service delivery.
• Determine requisite actions required for the management of any non-compliances ensuring that robust processes are established, and a working framework applied to all future non-compliance issues.
• Develop and maintain a positive stakeholder relationship with the relevant regulatory bodies.
• Lead, organise, measure, and drive the performance of the operations team in support of company goals and objectives in a healthy challenging environment.
• Provide technical support to the operational team when required.
• Design, develop, and deliver management processes that are required to comply with the relevant regulatory and business requirements.
• Proactively measure, monitor, and evaluate operational KPIs taking appropriate actions to ensure levels of performance are not compromised.

Key attributes:

• A credible team leader and accomplished MRO Leader with well-developed communication, influencing and negotiation skills gained in organisations undergoing significant transformation; well-rounded skills in making the complex simple.
• A people-focused approach to leadership tailoring your approach to achieve the best from the collective team.
• Strong, credible impact, with a demonstrated capability to resolve conflict; build, maintain and utilise relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve business goals.
• Strong relationship builder across the organisation (internal & external).

Skills/experience:

• 10 years or more experience in aircraft maintenance, preferably with experience working with aircraft lessors.
• Degree or equivalent of knowledge or skill acquired through experience, other qualifications, and training/development.
• Experience of operating at senior level in an MRO function, evidenced by applying strong leadership and management skills to ensure successful delivery of outputs and outcomes.
• Proven ability to manage a range of project types and complex business initiatives and change programmes.
• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement showing clear commercial acumen including the development and assurance of business cases.
• Liaison experience with the other aviation industry leaders (particularly lessors).
• Working knowledge of inspection procedures, methods, equipment and accepted industry standards.
• Strong background in safety management systems (SMS) and quality assurance practices within the aviation maintenance industry.
• Previous Experience as a Form 4 post holder.
• EASA Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance License (preferred).