Job Title: Fixed Wing Maintenance Manager
Location: Oxford
Hours: Full-time, standard office hours with flexibility for shift/line work
Salary: £65,000£75,000 per annum, dependent on experience

Responsibilities:

Business:

• Lead and develop maintenance teams, fostering a safety-first, compliant and performance-driven culture.
• Manage allocation of resources, manpower planning, training and authorisations of certifying staff.
• Drive accountability for quality, safety and delivery within the maintenance teams.
• Plan, monitor and control scheduled and unscheduled maintenance inputs to achieve aircraft availability and reliability targets.
• Ensure all maintenance documentation, records and technical logs are accurately completed and retained.
• Oversee defect rectification, modification embodiment, and troubleshooting.
• Manage relationships with contracted MROs, vendors and OEMs.
• Audit all daily logged hours looking for abnormalities in hours booked verses estimated or planned hours.
• Ensure strict adherence to the organisations Safety Management System (SMS) and Quality Management System (QMS).
• Promote continuous improvement initiatives across maintenance operations.
• Act as escalation point for significant defects, technical issues or safety concerns.
• Act as an oversight for expiring company approvals using the companys QA system
• Report all non-compliances through the SMS system and act upon identified trends discovered in the information gathering.
• Manage budgets, cost controls and resource utilisation to optimise operational efficiency.
• Provide technical input into asset management, aircraft acquisitions, and fleet development planning.
• Perform such other tasks as are reasonably requested by the Company SLT.

Regulatory:

• Ensure all maintenance activities meet the requirements of UK CAA Part 145/Part CAMO, EASA Part 145/CAMO and 2-REG continuing airworthiness regulations.
• Act as focal point for audits and inspections by authorities, ensuring full compliance and corrective actions where required.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of regulatory changes and proactively implement necessary adjustments to procedures and practices.

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