Duties & Responsibilities:
- Provide support for all maintenance activities performed by contracted maintenance personnel.
- Provides technical guidance to maintenance personnel and is available for consultation and decisions on technical, operational and procedural matters.
- Evaluate and plan for removal of an aircraft from service if maintenance work is not satisfactorily completed or under Aircraft on Ground (AOG) situation.
- Evaluate and engage the use of maintenance vendors for emergency maintenance work to be performed on aircraft.
- Monitor and authorize MEL/CDL deferrals in accordance with the relevant procedures.
- Develops plan and work scopes for MEL/CDL deferrals recommending necessary troubleshooting steps and requisitioning required materials.
- Coordinates aircraft out of service events with Maintenance, Technical Asset Management, Planning, Technical Service and Engineering Procurement in order to reduce schedule impact and aircraft downtime.
- Maintains positive operational control and situational awareness of out of service aircraft and AOG’s.
- Generates reports on ATSR, delays, cancellations, out-of-service and other performance data for management information.
- Maintain a shift log of all communications pertaining to out-of-service aircraft and critical or damage events.
- Provides sufficient handover to on-coming personnel so they are familiar with all work in progress and all items requiring to follow up.
- Maintains a shift log including documentation of aircraft worked on during a shift.
- Reviews prior shift logs and are familiar with previous shift activity for effective continuity of work.
- Assist the superior as directed.
Job Requirements:
- Typically Requires 5 years of Line Maintenance experience or 2 years C-Check experience
- Able to plan, organize, and administrate workloads to subordinates
- Experience in troubleshooting
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Able to interface effectively with Engineering, Maintenance, Procurement, Flight Operations, Flight crews, and OCC effectively
- Hold a CAAM Part 66 Aircraft Maintenance Engineer License