Workshop Maintenance Engineer II (Hydraulics and Pneumatics)

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Job purpose

Our highly qualified team excels in maintenance engineering, quality planning, and logistics, setting industry standards with an unwavering commitment to safety and excellence.

The Workshop Maintenance Engineer II will carry out routine maintenance tasks and defect rectification of aircraft components as per company and associated regulatory procedures.

• Carry out aircraft components maintenance and servicing tasks in compliance with manufacturer and safety procedures. Ensure that assigned aircraft components are maintained as per latest revisions of approved authority technical publications such as CMM, aircraft documentation, technical notices, quality notices, and engineering procedures manual, etc. Ensure that personal approvals/licenses are valid and applicable to aircraft components type/scope.
• Determine if tooling/equipment used is serviceable and appropriate for the task and use specialised tooling where required. Ensure that troubleshooting procedures/tools used for fault rectification are carried out in a cost-effective and efficient manner.
• Ensure that all activities performed are carried out in accordance with all safety rules and regulations and in adherence to company procedures, highlighting deficiencies/requirements through the effective use of reporting tools. Ensure all work locations are kept clean and excellent housekeeping conditions are maintained during the shift.
• Maintain effective communication with colleagues including managers and senior engineers to ensure a seamless flow of information and to highlight any potential operational issues.
• Manage the performance of staff using performance review process and system. Ensure SMART goal setting, interim/annual reviews, and development plans are in place for assigned staff members in accordance with company procedures.
• Attend training/recurrent modules as required to enhance skills and comply with CAR 145 requirements.
• With the introduction of new aircraft, explore new capability opportunities and assist in developing business cases for the same.

• Responsible to perform, assist, and support all overhaul, repair, and inspection tasks required for wheel brake as well as any activity related to chapter 32 of CMM within the wheel brake shop.
• Responsible for corrective actions, root cause analysis, and risk opportunity analysis of any findings.

• Proactively identify new capabilities build-up opportunities of aircraft components and conduct feasibility study, justify the requirement of establishing new capabilities via research and development (R&D), cost-benefit analysis (business cases) to enhance the workshop's capabilities.
• Be conversant with 145 AMO regulatory framework. Liaise with company internal compliance monitoring teams for obtaining necessary regulatory approvals for shop activities.
• Lead the project to build up the agreed new aircraft components capabilities until it is approved by regulatory authorities. Liaise with fleet technical management (Engineering Technical Services - ETS), Part 21 DOA, UAE GCAA MOA (Manufacturing Organization), component repair or reliability departments for gathering facts and solid justification data for the capability establishment.
• Define new standard operating procedures (SOP) or process instruction manuals, stage sheets, work order job cards that allow shop engineers to practice new capability deliverables.
• Develop and deliver training programs to enhance the technical proficiency of the workshop's staff. Introduce external training/refresher training to allow authorization approval scopes of certifying engineers to remain valid.
• Liaise with technical publications, ETS and ensure all workshop publications (CMM, CMM-TR, SILs, CMM-ICA documents) are available for workshop personnel access.
• Coordinate with internal related stakeholders to implement the built/approved new capabilities in the workshop until the output of production is fully compliant with regulations.
• Participate in company internal compliance monitoring 145 audits, external EASA 145 or GCAA CAR 145 audits and demonstrate workshop regulatory compliance at all times.
• Be involved in any potential optimization and/or continuous improvement if applicable for the newly built-up capabilities.

Qualification

To be considered for this role you need to meet the below criteria.

• Degree in aeronautical subjects, mechanical, avionics, electronic, tech engineering or aircraft maintenance engineering licence OR engineering apprenticeship.

• 9 years of experience in aircraft maintenance engineering related fields.
• 4+ years as a certifying staff in the relevant area.

• Capable of AutoCAD, SolidWorks, CATIA V5 or similar CAD/CAM packages. Ability to produce own CAD drawings when the need arises.
• 5+ years experience in MRO 145 workshop engineering streams as a subject matter expert of airframe mechanical systems (hydraulic components/pneumatic components).
• Experience in hydraulic, pneumatic, fuel & oil, landing gears components capability build-up, preferred B-777 and A-380 related components, and the approval for components.
• Project management experience with Six Sigma, Lean, aircraft component capability build-up; familiarization with PMP, Prince2, Agile, or Lean process engineering systems.
• Knowledge of latest technical developments and industry trends on respective technology (example: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, etc.).
• Ability to analyse and synthesise technical information for implementation in cost-effective ways.
• Excellent drafting/report writing skills.
• Demonstrable experience in managing complex tasks and decision making in a fast-paced environment.

• Working at height: Yes
• Exposure to hazardous energy systems: Yes
• Heavy lifting: Yes
• Working in areas with motorised mobile equipment: Yes
• Work in confined spaces: Yes
• Contact with contamination materials (humans/animals/chemicals): Yes
• Contact with dangerous goods: Yes
• Work in an extremely noisy environment: Yes
• Work in heat: Yes
• Working with pressurised substances: Yes
• Exposure to fixed protruding sharp objects: Yes
• Exposure to contact with moving/falling objects: Yes
• Airport driving permit: Yes
• Driving a vibrating equipment: No

Salary & benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. Find out what it's like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city.

About the Company

A fast-growing international airline with one of the youngest fleets in the sky and more than 400 awards for excellence worldwide.

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