Job Description
The Role
Draken Europe offers exciting careers that matter.
We believe that mission success does not start with the mission itself. It begins with our people.
The Role
We are currently recruiting for an Avionics Supervisor - Aircraft Maintenance to assist the Shift Supervisor in being responsible to the Chief Engineer, for the safety, regulatory compliance, and operational performance of all CAA Part-145 and or BCAR A8-23 aircraft maintenance activities at the Teesside Maintenance facility and detached locations, essential to the effective delivery of customer contractual requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Liaise with those departments necessary to complete the tasks allocated to them.
- Carry out their tasks to the best of their ability, supervise and certify any work within the terms of the Company authorisation held in technical logs or on Company worksheets/work cards.
- Ensure compliance with published Company Procedures.
- Complete worksheets/work cards as soon as the tasks is completed and write any additional defects found on to additional worksheets/work cards and hand the completed worksheets to their supervisor.
- Notify their supervisor of any serious defects immediately they are found.
- See that all test equipment used in their work is calibrated and in date for test.
- To be particularly responsible for the maintenance of aircraft allocated to their control by their Shift Supervisor
- The ground movements of aircraft assigned to them by their Shift Supervisor
- Requisitioning engineers in conjunction with his/her Shift Supervisor or CE of other disciplines to an aircraft as required and to co-ordinate them into the activity.
- Assuming overall responsibility for all trades engaged in work on an aircraft they have been allocated.
- Defining, co-ordinating and being present at all occasions requiring hydraulic system and/or engine ground run functional testing of aircraft systems that fall within their trade boundaries.
- Assuming direct control of documentation of aircraft under their control in order that they may assure themselves that all required entries are promptly and correctly recorded.
- Assisting their Shift Supervisor in monitoring the performance of staff under their control including, attendance, timekeeping, sickness etc.
Experience
- Minimum 3 years’ experience on fast jet e.g., Hawk T1
- Personal Skills/Abilities
- Good Change and Project Management Skills
- Team oriented with proven communication and influencing skills
- Customer focussed with exceptional personal and communication skills
- Self-Motivated, confident, and assertive
- A demonstrated capability to work within, and adhere to, a defined set of organisational values
- Medically fit to perform daily engineering duties including detachment working
- A willingness to work shift patterns to suit the business needs
- Security cleared to meet current UK and ITAR requirements in support of the business
Previous experience within an aircraft maintenance department.
Further Applicable Aircraft Maintenance Experience, Base/Workshops are desirable
- Proven track record, at a Supervisor Level or similar role within an aircraft maintenance environment is essential, Military or Civil.
- Extensive knowledge of Regulatory requirements related to aircraft maintenance is essential
- Basic business skills to understand financial management
- Proven ability to work and deliver, to time pressure and deadlines, using basic project management skills.
- Demonstrated high level in Communication, Team Building and Partnership skills in dealing with stakeholders
- The demonstrated ability to motivate people and influence change in line with company organisational values
- An understanding, or preferably evidence, of working within a continuous improvement project.
Our employee values
Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.
To us, diversity means bringing your own perspective to the conversation; inclusion means having a voice - and e quality means that your voice is heard.
At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken Europe team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect.
Intolerance has no place in our Company. We condemn it outright. Instead, we strive to create a culture where each person who joins our team feels they have the opportunity to succeed, to grow, and to work within an environment where they can be themselves.
We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications.
In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.
About You
About Us
Whether it is adversarial support, electronic attack or customised rotary-wing training, we offer the most accurate and advanced readiness training in the industry. Our vast, differentiated fleet, cutting edge hardware and experienced instructors are engaged to help your mission take off.
Being ready is not only a matter of when. But where. We provide services in the UK, US and across the NATO countries. Making sure that our allies can manoeuvre around defeat and prepare to prevail.
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