As a global airline and the UK’s flag carrier, British Airways has been flying its customers to where they need to be for more than 100 years. The airline connects Britain with the world and the world with Britain, operating one of the most extensive international scheduled airline route networks together with its joint business, codeshare and franchise pa...
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Licensed Aircraft Engineer
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldAviation / Airline 
Provides effective technical leadership of maintenance colleagues and maintenance supervision, to ensure compliance with all regulatory and company requirements and procedures. Works collaboratively with local management, control centres, quality, planning and technical departments to achieve required quality and cost targets, alongside the delivery of maintenance.
What you’ll do:
- Lead and supervise maintenance activities including setting clear targets and expectations to deliver departmental
- Develop and empower a team to its full potential!
- Ensure team and individual compliance with company procedures in direct relation to the supervision of maintenance tasks being conducted.
- Responsible for the successful completion of all allocated, planned and ad-hoc maintenance tasks. This is expected to be achieved through effective leadership, supervision of maintenance and efficient allocation of resources, equipment and
- Provide oversight and certification of individual and team maintenance activities, ensuring compliance with safety, company procedures, regulatory and airmanship standards (this includes C Certification for non-scheduled inputs and modification inputs in Base Maintenance areas)
- Ensure and support effective communication and escalation of issues that require additional
- Be responsible for remaining qualified and authorised required aircraft types, vehicles and equipment applicable to area and able to carry out all tasks associated with the Certifying Licensed Technician
- Be responsible for maintaining a safe working environment by adhering to quality, health, safety and environment regulations and housekeeping
- Hold a BX stamp, carry out the requirements of a BX stamp holder (as required by the area)
- Create a culture of continuous improvement in a production environment, in order to increase unit performance and colleague development.
- Complete IT and documentary transactions as required, making full use of
- Support the development of a high performing team and culture, in line with the company
- Further own knowledge and skills base with training, use of technology and experience
What you’ll bring to British Airways:
- Excellent technical decision-making skills
- Information gathering, interpretation and decision
- Problem solving and acting on own
- Ability to interpret technical publications to make fact-based decisions in a complex operating
- Identifies solutions with strong situational
- Highly self-motivated, capable of working as part of a team as well as leading a
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
- Strong prioritisation, planning and organisation
- Good IT literacy
- Strong analytical skills
- Innovative, flexible and adaptable
Your experience:
- CAA Part-66 Category B license or NCAA license
- Unrestricted B1 (plus B2 optional)
- Valid full driving license (or equivalent) (desirable)
- Ability to hold an airport restricted zone
- Ability to hold an airside driving
For internal candidates only:
- Restricted or Unrestricted B1 (plus B2 optional)
- Must hold a minimum of one aircraft type authorisation applicable to British Airways
Method of Application Interested and qualified? Go to British Airways on careers.ba.com to apply
