Job Description
Job Title: Fixed Wing Maintenance Manager
Location: Oxford
Hours: Full-time, standard office hours with flexibility for shift/line work
Salary: £65,000£75,000 per annum, dependent on experience
Responsibilities:
Business:
* Lead and develop maintenance teams, fostering a safety-first, compliant and performance-driven culture.
* Manage allocation of resources, manpower planning, training and authorisations of certifying staff.
* Drive accountability for quality, safety and delivery within the maintenance teams.
* Plan, monitor and control scheduled and unscheduled maintenance inputs to achieve aircraft availability and reliability targets.
* Ensure all maintenance documentation, records and technical logs are accurately completed and retained.
* Oversee defect rectification, modification embodiment, and troubleshooting.
* Manage relationships with contracted MROs, vendors and OEMs.
* Audit all daily logged hours looking for abnormalities in hours booked verses estimated or planned hours.
* Ensure strict adherence to the organisations Safety Management System (SMS) and Quality Management System (QMS).
* Promote continuous improvement initiatives across maintenance operations.
* Act as escalation point for significant defects, technical issues or safety concerns.
* Act as an oversight for expiring company approvals using the companys QA system
* Report all non-compliances through the SMS system and act upon identified trends discovered in the information gathering.
* Manage budgets, cost controls and resource utilisation to optimise operational efficiency.
* Provide technical input into asset management, aircraft acquisitions, and fleet development planning.
* Perform such other tasks as are reasonably requested by the Company SLT.
Regulatory:
* Ensure all maintenance activities meet the requirements of UK CAA Part 145/Part CAMO, EASA Part 145/CAMO and 2-REG continuing airworthiness regulations.
* Act as focal point for audits and inspections by authorities, ensuring full compliance and corrective actions where required.
* Maintain up-to-date knowledge of regulatory changes and proactively implement necessary adjustments to procedures and practices.
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