Aircraft Engine Technician - Team Lead in Leighton Buzzard

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire

Position Role Type: Unspecified

At RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defence company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market-leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines and auxiliary power systems and has been revolutionising modern flight for over 100 years. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defence. Pratt and Whitney Canada (an RTX company), is a global aerospace leader, shaping the future of business, general, and regional aviation, as well as helicopters and APU’s. Every second, somewhere in the world, an aircraft takes off or lands under Pratt & Whitney power. Pratt & Whitney Canada UK forms part of the Regional Customer Service Centre Network and has a repair centre based in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.

What you will do:

This is a hands-on team leader role combining engine technician responsibilities with day-to-day team leadership and operational coordination. The successful candidate will spend approximately 50% of their time carrying out engine maintenance activities within the engine shop (very occasional in field work), with the remaining 50% dedicated to leading and supporting a team of 12 Engine Technicians.

As Team Leader, the role will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the team, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently and to the required quality standards. This will include reviewing work scopes, monitoring work progress and status, allocating and prioritising tasks, and ensuring technicians have the appropriate support and resources to complete their work.

The role will also work closely with the MRO Engine Planner to ensure work scopes remain on track, priorities are managed effectively, and engines are completed and released in line with agreed schedules and delivery requirements.

• Preferred experience with Pratt & Whitney Canada turbofan Engines (i.e. PW300, PW500, PW600 and PW800).
• Ensure all technical documentation has been correctly completed prior to commencement of work.
• Ensure work scope has been correctly prepared in line with regulatory, customer and P&WC requirements.
• Work closely and provide back cover for the MRO Engine Repair Planner.
• Support the UK General Manager in the day-to-day running of events and provide people management responsibilities including conducting return-to-work interviews, coordinating holiday requests, timesheet approval.
• Be aware of the commercial aspects of the work requirements and negotiate with the customer as appropriate.
• Maintain and complete work files and relevant documentation, showing detailed entries of work performed.
• Check in and disassemble engines in line with work scope requirements and carry out basic cleaning of components as necessary.
• Inspect all relevant components and identify items for scrap, rework or refit with reference to and interpretation of relevant product information.
• Assemble engines to defined standards ensuring fit, clearance and modification levels are accurate using appropriate P&WC hand tools and measuring equipment.
• Accurately update the technical pack throughout the build process to ensure its accuracy and completion prior to release of the engine.
• Complete and issue engine release certificates upon completion of engine maintenance.
• Constantly seek improvements to turn time and cost reductions.
• Generation of accurate cost estimates and technical reports as required, in adherence to the quoted costs.
• Ensure that the customer is advised of any escalation in costs before estimate values are exceeded.
• Provide (as required) information to the finance department to ensure accurate generation of invoices to ensure these are issued in line with company targets.
• To generate good customer communication and issue regular status reports as necessary.
• Provide support to customer engines, both in house at the facility in Leighton Buzzard and out in the field (very occasionally).

What We Offer:

In return we offer a benefits package which includes a competitive base salary as well as 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. In addition, there is an Employee Assistance Programme, Private medical insurance, health & wellbeing cash plan and the ability to buy and sell holidays, employee discounts, a fantastic pension scheme, discounted gym membership and much, much more.

Why Join The Team?

At Pratt & Whitney, we believe that powered flight has transformed and will continue to transform – the world. That’s why we work with an explorer’s heart and a perfectionist’s grit to design, build, and service the world’s Military Engines most advanced aircraft engines. We do this across a diverse portfolio, including Commercial Engines, Business Aviation, General Aviation, Regional Aviation, and Helicopter Aviation – and as a way of turning possibilities into realities for our customers. This is how we at Pratt & Whitney approach our work, and this is why we are inspired to go beyond!

Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as:

• Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
• Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.
• Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). If you live within a reasonable commute of an RTX site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role.

Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.