Delivery Support Engineer
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Delivery Support Engineer
Responsible for supporting the EDM to deliver a stable Engineering plan and outstanding operational performance to support the 24hr Engineering Operation. As the Delivery Support Engineer, you will use your Technical and Procedural knowledge to support the EDM ensuring compliance is maintained and processes and procedures are followed. You will have daily interaction across Engineering and Combined Operations to deliver safe and serviceable aircraft on time to plan in order to meet our business goals.
What you'll do:
- To support the EDM 'on-shift' and support the Operational Delivery Team and Maintrol
- To demonstrate the required hallmarks and behaviours using the information available to you to maintain Engineering operational oversight.
- Support the EDM to ensure aircraft compliance, managing all immediate airworthiness issues as they arise.
- Drive plan achievement and operational performance.
- Identifies and builds collaborative relationships with key stakeholders within engineering and across British Airways to ensure focus on providing customer satisfaction and plan delivery
- Promotes a culture of continuous improvement and challenges the status quo to drive improvement into operational processes and delivery
- Has responsibility for ADD / Op Def clearance process across Engineering and monitoring to drive success
- To manage the expeditious return to service of all unscheduled unserviceable aircraft worldwide
- Continuously monitors and acts to improve ETS for casualty and planned aircraft inputs
- To support the EDM in making "on the day" operational decisions and achieve the agreed performance measures, hold stakeholders to account for delivery of the plan by building relationships and identifying blockers that can be overcome.
- Communicate with a wide range of departments /colleagues across Engineering and Global Operations on a regular basis providing updates on operational issues as required.
- Arrange / co-ordinate / attend / manage meetings as appropriate to fulfil the responsibilities of supporting the EDM
- Support the development and maintenance of Engineering procedures for accidents, incidents and business continuity issues.
- Perform other assignments and duties as required..
Requirements
Do you have experience in Operations management?, * Adapt behavioural approach to suit different business situations.
- Proven decision-making skills in a complex business environment
- Using initiative to develop and delivering work packages in a planned environment
- Excellent influencing skills and ability to drive delivery and effect outcomes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, effective in a planned and operational environment
- Proven prioritisation skills and comfortable with ambiguity
- Ability to operate effectively in a high-pressure environment
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Considerable experience working in a fast-moving operational environment.
- Management and leadership of professional and specialist staff in a regulated environment
- Considerable experience of working autonomously and managing competing priorities
- Operational management experience in large workforce areas
- Experience using Continuous Improvement processes to improve business performance.
- Uncompromising in safety and delivery
- Customer and colleague focussed
- Clear and articulate communicator
- Resilient under pressure.
Your experience:
- An appropriate technical / operational qualification, engineering apprenticeship or operational management experience (Essential).
- Extensive aircraft production / technical background (Essential)
- Holder UK / EASA or equivalent Part 66 maintenance licence (Preferred)
- Strong technical knowledge of modern large aircraft, their structures, systems and powerplant (Essential)
- Hands on maintenance experience on British Airways operated aircraft types (Preferred)
- Working knowledge of aircraft operations control centre working practices (Preferred)
- Understanding of Part-21, Part-M and Part-145 regulations (Preferred)
- Understanding of aircraft maintenance planning principles (Preferred)
- Proficient in IT system including aircraft monitoring software, SAP (Desirable) and the Microsoft Office 365 suite (Essential).