IMS Maintenance Support Engineer

About the role

The IMS Maintenance Support Engineer supports the delivery of Maintenance Tasking and Verification at strategic and tactical levels, helping maximise operational efficiency and minimise costs. The post holder uses subject matter knowledge and experience, with good to strong quantitative and analytical skills, Lean management principles and effective communication, and must understand the relationship with interfacing areas and analyse data with attention to detail.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse maintenance requirements for specific aircraft or components against the approved Tactical Fleet plan and Fleet Maintenance Plan, resolve issues and ensure the Statement of Work (SoW) is created on time.
• Develop and maintain work packages, including technical instructions, resource and materiel requirements, and document independent inspection and safety-critical tasks.
• Plan additional and emergent work so workload is managed against schedule, and update and re-authorise the SoW for changes.
• Work with Fleet Planning, Demand Management, Part 145 organisations, Technical Services, Airworthiness Records and third-party suppliers to meet continuing airworthiness and contract delivery standards.
• Review and report on maintenance task performance, SoW, Pre-Input and Post-Output Review meetings, and emerging trends, escalating issues as appropriate.
• Review changes in customer requirements such as fatigue life limits, capability upgrades and approved modification programmes.
• Assess maintenance activities against the approved SoW and certificate of maintenance to confirm completion or correct authorisation or deferral.
• Ensure documentation, airworthiness records and reporting are complete, comply with company procedures and standards, apply human factors and error management, and meet QAF governance, regulatory (e.g. ITAR, ISO) and contractual requirements.

Required profile

• Recognised qualification to NVQ3/ONC level in a relevant data management or technical discipline, or Part 66 Category A qualified, or suitable equivalent.
• Recent in-depth experience in a maintenance and support environment, including supporting or maintaining aircraft fleets and their Continuing Airworthiness Records.
• Understanding of reliability programmes and data integrity in fleet planning and maintenance tasking.
• Ability to advise data integrity teams on records issues, aircraft and fleet-wide.
• Human factors and E&PW course, UK driving licence.