Maintenance Manager - MCO

Overview

Job Purpose At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always fly better. As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation, ambition, and excellence. Join a dynamic, fast-paced team where your ideas and relationship-building skills will directly shape employee experience across our global workforce.

Overall responsible for managing the day-to-day engineering operations and supporting the Company’s commercial and operational requirements by optimum deployment of resources to achieve efficient, safe and cost-effective results. Will attend to all scheduled and un-scheduled maintenance requirements and will absorb disruptions caused by AoGs/casualties by constantly liaising with other sections to minimise grounding. This role is responsible for managing multiple stations in one country or multiple stations in more than one country.

• Develop, analyze, and execute annual budgets with emphasis to the business needs of the organisation, including manpower, capital expenditure and non-capital items within budgets to ensure overall cost effectiveness.
• Maintain the highest quality standards by ensuring staff under direct control are aware of all technical publications and revisions, and maintain a “Read and Sign” register. Actively pursue quality circle programmes engaging staff from all grades to identify areas for improvement and initiate action plans to address working environment issues.
• Carry out audits of various activities and document findings to establish trends and formulate plans to counteract adverse findings. Forecast future input requirements and ensure timely handling and completion. Maintain operational obligations through deploying resources in accordance with task requirements, ensuring targets and deadlines are achievable.
• Conduct monthly meetings with staff to highlight concerns and expectations, document them, and emphasize safety culture and good engineering and housekeeping practices.
• Maintain effective communication by liaising with other engineering sections to enhance channels and provide procedural revisions that benefit the business.
• Identify technical and non-technical training requirements and agree an action plan to address staff and business needs to maximise productivity.
• Conduct timely opening/agreeing/closing of PM reviews for all staff under control, ensuring fair ratings and providing technical leadership and guidance as required for Engineers within the section.
• Compile monthly station reports reflecting operational/efficiency data, staff information and station issues. Manage a leave/bid system to enable annual leave while ensuring adequate resources, and control overtime and lieu hours to keep costs under control.
• Emirates Flight Training Academy (EFTA) activities: perform departmental internal and product audits (daily/weekly/monthly) of EFTA aircraft and maintenance activities within the hangar, simulator bays, and ramp operations to verify compliance with regulatory requirements and identify improvements for safety, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure the status of aircraft and simulators is accurately reported at all times, provide contact information, and liaise with stakeholders to deliver the necessary service and/or product.

Jobholder must have an ICAO type II / JAR 66 / GCAA type rated licences on company aircraft as well as company approvals. Emirates Flight Training Academy:
Must have UAE GCAA/ ICAO Type II/ EASA Part 66 licence rated in B1.1 and/or B1.2 categories, in addition to company approvals. Rating in at least 1 Emirates Flight Training Academy aircraft type desirable.

10+ years extensive experience in a commercial aviation maintenance organisation or similar, 5 of which should have been in a senior position. Emirates Flight Training Academy: 10+ years in aviation maintenance environment with a reputable aircraft maintenance organisation. At least 5+ years certifying experience as a license or company authorisation holder. At least 2+ years in a supervisory position.

The jobholder must be a good administrator and…