Maintenance Manager

With over 1,400 employees and over 2,700 airports in over 175 countries, ADB SAFEGATE is dedicated to making air travel safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly. With our innovative Airside 4.0® solutions, we help turning airports into smart airports, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the passenger experience.

Contract Type:
Permanent

Smarter, Better, Now.

ADB SAFEGATE’s Airfield solutions has over 75 years’ experience of delivering cutting‑edge airfield ground lighting, enabling safe and efficient landings, taxiing, and take‑offs.

The Maintenance Manager manages all maintenance activities for service level agreements in dedicated airports.

• Directs the maintenance and operational performance of the AGL and A-VDGS infrastructure of the airport to ensure compliance with the contract specifications and to meet ICAO standards
• Represents ADBSG in regular review meetings with the client and establishes effective working relationships with key personnel
• Communicates the key elements of the contract (deliverables, measures and penalties) to the AGL Maintenance team and ensures that appropriate checks, supervision, reports and controls are implemented
• Ensures that the ADBSG maintenance team has the required spare parts stock and anticipates future requirements
• Identifies the providers and arranges special testing schedules for the AGL and A-VDGS infrastructure at the airport, Thermal Imaging tests and the Annual AGL Audit
• Supervises the delivery of ‘custodial services’ (cleaning and maintenance of buildings and surrounding areas)
• Procedures and documentation
  • Establishes and maintains Standard Operating Procedures for all maintenance activities.
  • Ensures appropriate document management procedures are implemented to fulfill the contract requirement.
  • Defines and monitors the Quality Control Plan, including undertaking routine audits.
  • Defines and monitors the HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) procedures and plan, including undertaking risk assessments and reviews.
• Liaises and coordinates with interface groups to achieve goals and objectives
  • The client and associated bodies.
  • Sub-contractors: defines contract specification, including establishing Service Level Agreements.
• Personnel Management
  • Manages the resources of the ADBSG maintenance team, including establishing appropriate salary levels, setting the standards of team performance and behaviour, identifying and rewarding high performance, proactively managing poor performance issues.
  • Motivates key personnel within the ADBSG maintenance team and ensures that there is a healthy team spirit and team members show respect for all cultures, religion, nationality and other personal/social considerations.
  • Plans, advises and recommends on personnel training and development to ensure the maintenance function is staffed with individuals of the required skills and competencies.
  • Ensures that there are adequate succession planning and provision of skills and people to meet future demands.
  • Develops the KPIs and performance objectives for all roles within the ADBSG maintenance team, ensuring a close connection to the performance measures and penalties within the contract.
  • Ensures that a Safe working culture is firmly embedded within the ADBSG Maintenance team and delivers continued safety improvements.
• Reporting & Performance
  • Present regular Contract Management reports to the client and fulfills the documentation and reporting requirements contained in the contract schedules.
  • Present regular Management reports to ADBSG, including budgets, forecasts and risk assessments.
  • Develop internal Key Performance Indicators to ensure an effective performance of maintenance functions.
  • Identify opportunities for performance improvement.

• Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• A proactive attitude, self‑motivated individual
• Adaptability to work in a multinational, multicultural environment.
• Strong planning and reporting skills
• Ability to negotiate with subcontractors and clients
• Customer oriented, with client relationship management skills
• Ability to…