B1 Engineer Shift Lead – LGW

An exciting opportunity is available with our client for a B1 Engineer Shift Lead position.

Role: B1 Engineer Shift Lead
Salary: Upon application
Location: Gatwick
Shift Pattern: 5,5,4 – Mix of Days & Nights

Responsibilities:
Team Leadership

• Maintain awareness of company Health & Safety policy and to ensure that staff under their control practice approved methods to minimise risk to personnel or equipment.
• To promote a safety conscious culture.
• Effective Management, development, and motivation of the team.
• To assess all work requests and requirements with particular attention to tooling, manpower and downtime.
• To manage and maintain a safe and efficient line maintenance operation.
• Aid in maintaining an efficient and effective shift to aid the continued airworthiness of Customer Aircraft.
• 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.
• To review daily the Customer work requests, ensure spares have been identified/received and placed on Pre-load.
• To aid Customer Airline achieving its on-time performance targets.

Regulatory and Budgetary Requirements

• To aid in ensuring all relevant Station, EASA and CAA regulations are met.
• To ensure relevant procedures are followed, maintained and reviewed ensuring compliance with all regulations.
• Ensure all cost savings or potential overspends are brought to the attention of the Station Manager
• To ensure all overtime requirements are brought to the attention of the Station Manager preferably in advance for approval.

Line Maintenance

• Ensure staffing levels and skills are sufficient to fulfil shift requirements
• To ensure a good relationship is established and maintained between all line stations and interfacing departments
• To aid the Customer Airlines on-time performance record
• Complete and update as required –

• Line Station Status
• Production Plan
• Handover Diary
• Charge sheets
• Daily Station Teams update sheet
• Staff Temp Monitoring Form
• Station Cleaning Register
• Verify all tools and equipment have been returned and signed back in at the end of shift
• Delay Reports
• Customer Daily Reporting requirements
• Communication

• To attend meetings as required between shift supervisors, Operational Maintenance Manager and interfacing departments.
• To 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.

Essential Experience & Qualifications

• A recognised apprenticeship within the aircraft industry or similar.
• Hold a UK CAA B1 Licence & EASA – Types covered: (minimum of 2 of the following) A320 A350 A380 B747 B787
• Have extensive knowledge of Line Maintenance activities with hands on working experience.
• Experience being of supervising and managing staff on shift.
• Good standard of written/ spoken English including the ability to interact at a technical level
• Good Computer literacy with experience and knowledge of Microsoft Word, excel etc

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please send your updated CV to: Melanie Cave at Line Up Aviation –
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