Shift Manager - Line Maintenance

Job Purpose

The successful candidate will support the Manager
- Line Maintenance in managing and monitoring Line Maintenance activities on Air Arabia and third-party aircraft. The role ensures that all maintenance work is performed, certified, and recorded accurately and in a timely manner, in full compliance with GCAA regulations, Air Arabia procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements. The position is responsible for supporting the effective allocation and utilisation of manpower, ensuring resources are deployed in a timely and cost-effective manner to meet operational requirements, maintain aircraft availability, and achieve business objectives.

The successful candidate will support the Manager
- Line Maintenance in managing and monitoring Line Maintenance activities on Air Arabia and third-party aircraft. The role ensures that all maintenance work is performed, certified, and recorded accurately and in a timely manner, in full compliance with GCAA regulations, Air Arabia procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements. The position is responsible for supporting the effective allocation and utilisation of manpower, ensuring resources are deployed in a timely and cost-effective manner to meet operational requirements, maintain aircraft availability, and achieve business objectives.

• Acts as the main contact point for Stakeholders such as MCC, Development and Planning Engineers, and Quality Assurance team in assimilating, delivering and following up on the day to day maintenance tasks and activities of the Line Maintenance respective team.
• Leads a team of engineers and technicians to carry out maintenance work on aircrafts and rectify/reduce the number of defects utilizing different sources and means such as MCC instructions, troubleshooting (TSR), Technical Log-book of aircrafts, as well as input from cabin crew and pilots, all in accordance with qualifications, experience and approved matrix of authority.
• Supervises the execution of 3rd Party Service Level Agreements as per agreed terms and conditions and standard adopted procedures ensuring all engineers and technicians performing the required tasks are well trained and licensed in the respective category to maintain business relationships.
• Ensures all safety measures and working procedures as well as specified rules and regulations are being considered and adhered to when carrying out any maintenance work on aircrafts, this also includes transferring procedures of all aircrafts required to be sent to the Base Maintenance Hangar for the heavy maintenance.
• Reviews the operational status reports of aircrafts on a daily basis ensuring that required tasks loaded by MCC or the Planning Engineers are timely, cost-effectively and successfully executed whilst MCC is regularly updated with any changes to the pre-approved plan.
• Constantly coordinates with MCC on any pending problems with aircrafts which cause concern or could result in operational disruption, or involve a drop in acceptable service standards during their shift.
• Provides proper guidance, monitoring and performance assessment to the Line Maintenance Engineers and Technicians to assist them carry out their assigned maintenance tasks such as trouble shooting needed to identify and find solutions for potential and existing defects.
• Continuously monitors the licenses approvals and renewal, maintaining an up-to-date record of necessary documents and reports, and highlighting to Management concerns and issues relating to staff performance to ensure adherence to Quality Assurance and GCAA regulations.
• Maintains the Line Maintenance manuals, facilities, offices, machinery, equipment and tools as per approved standards and operational business requirements. Ensures needed tools/equipment are timely handed to/handed over to respective engineers and technicians to successfully accommodate required tasks.
• Implements new technical projects as directed by the MML&O taking into consideration proper procedures and necessary technical and system support as well as familiarization and guidance sessions for the respective engineers and technicians.
• Oversees the daily…