B1 Licenced Engineer - Duty Manager

The Duty Manager will have an aircraft engineering background within CAA/EASA environment, who leads and manages the day-to-day operational activities to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the station. Their role will cover administrative and managerial duties including workload management and booking control, production planning and will be responsible for supervising and managing staff on shift.

Job Accountabilities

• Team Leadership
  • Maintain awareness of company Health & Safety policy and ensure that staff under their control practice approved methods to minimise risk to personnel or equipment.
  • Encourage a safety culture among shift members and advise the Station Manager of any potential hazards identified or improvements that could be made.
  • Promote a safety conscious culture, encourage reporting.
  • Mentor and assist staff development, actively involved with onboarding for new starters (Company and Customer procedures).
  • Effective management, development, and motivation of the team.
  • Carry out staff appraisals.
  • Encourage a strong work ethic and staff interaction across shift personnel and lead by example.
  • Manage all shift activities and responsibilities ensuring efficient use of manpower whilst ensuring the activities contribute to the continued airworthiness of the based aircraft with expedient clear up of defects.
  • Assess all work requests and requirements with particular attention to tooling, manpower and downtime.
  • Manage and maintain a safe and efficient line maintenance operation.
  • Ensure shift levels and skills are sufficient to achieve planned workload in line with Production Planning Process and bring discrepancies to the attention of Engineering Management.
  • Ensure a good relationship is maintained between all line stations and interfacing departments.
  • Aid Customer Airline in achieving its on-time performance targets.
  • Ensure all responsible staff are aware of their responsibilities and updates to relevant procedures.
  • Ensure the line station is maintained in a clean, safe and efficient manner during their period of duty.
• Regulatory and Budgetary Requirements
  • Aid in ensuring all relevant Station, EASA and CAA regulations are met.
  • Ensure relevant procedures are followed, maintained and reviewed ensuring compliance with all regulations.
  • Ensure all relevant directions, procedures and directives are followed and correctly read and recorded.
  • Ensure all cost savings or potential overspends are brought to the attention of the Station Manager.
  • Ensure all overtime requirements are brought to the attention of the Station Manager preferably in advance for approval.
  • Ensure all H & S issues are assessed and brought to the attention of the Station Manager.
• Line Maintenance
  • Ensure all relevant staff on their shift are aware of all H & S obligations and responsibilities.
  • Review roster 14 days in advance to ensure staffing levels and skills are sufficient to fulfil shift requirements.
  • Arrange backfill and overtime as required in accordance with guidelines as directed from Station Manager.
  • Ensure production planning is complete for current and oncoming shift.
  • Review daily the Customer work requests, ensure spares have been identified/received and placed on Pre-load.
  • Establish and maintain a good relationship between all line stations and interfacing departments.
  • Aid the Customer Airlines on-time performance record.
  • Ensure all responsible staff are regularly briefed and aware of their responsibilities and updates.
  • Ensure the line station is maintained in a clean, safe and efficient manner (ensuring station/vehicles clean, tidy, bins emptied at the end of every shift).
  • Complete and update as required – Production Plan, Handover Diary, Charge sheets, Daily Station Report in Teams, Staff Temp Monitoring Form.
  • Verify all tools and equipment have been returned and signed back in at the end of shift.
  • Complete Delay Reports and Customer Daily Reporting requirements.
• Communication
  • Ensure any issues are brought to the attention of the Station Manager.
  • At the beginning of each shift, be conversant with any ongoing problems, and maintain an accurate shift Log throughout the duty period, and fully brief the oncoming shift of events.
  • Ensure all responsible staff are regularly briefed and aware of their responsibilities and updates.
  • Establish and maintain good communication across their shift and interfacing departments.
  • Attend meetings as required.
  • Keep Customer MOC informed at all times about the serviceability and maintenance condition of the aircraft.
  • Maintain an awareness of the latest Technical Instructions, NTE’s and Procedures from all sources.
• Ad Hoc
  • Carry out tasks as detailed by the Station Manager.
  • Carry out Pt 145 training.
  • Deputise for the Station Manager in his absence.

Qualifications, Experience and Knowledge

• Qualification & Education: A recognised apprenticeship within the aircraft industry or similar. Relevant Aircraft Engineering experience.
• Experience: Essential: Team Leader, Organisational Skills, Negotiation Skills, People management, Communicator.
• Training & Knowledge: Experience of Base operated A/C. Supervisory and/or Managerial experience. Technical experience in aviation and experience of certifying Aircraft within UK/EASA regulations. Have a working knowledge of Aircraft Maintenance Production Planning.