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- Permanent Full Time
- Seniority
- Senior
About the role
- 2 day shifts, 2 night shifts, 5 days off
- 2 day shifts, 3 night shifts, 4 days off
- 3 day shifts, 2 night shifts, 5 days off
- Days: 07:30 – 19:30
- Nights: 19:30 – 07:30
- Shift pay £8,190
- Call out Gratuity - £724.13 (paid quarterly)
- SR Bounty - £3,618.28(paid at attestation and then 6 monthly thereafter)
- Duty Pay £3.61 per hour
What's in it for you?
- Operational Variety: From line maintenance at MOB to short-notice AOG recoveries and flying tasks, you’ll experience a dynamic and varied operational tempo.
- Sponsored Reservist Status: Serve as a uniformed engineer during deployments, representing AirTanker while supporting UK defence operations—combining civilian expertise with military service.
- Purpose-Driven Work: Contribute directly to the safety, readiness, and reliability of the UK’s air mobility capability
- Comprehensive Benefits: Including private medical insurance, with enrolment windows to add family members at an additional cost, bonus scheme, EV scheme, contributory pension with the option to adjust contributions and employer matching up to 10%, and more.
- Adventure & Belonging: Battlefield tours, adventure training, and family fun days.
What you'll be doing
- Undertake maintenance activities inclusive of scheduled and un-scheduled Aircraft Maintenance in accordance with the required regulatory and company requirements
- Certify all servicing and maintenance tasks in accordance with their scope of approval and under the authority of the company Quality Manager
- Ensure that all technical staff working under their supervision perform their duties in a safe and correct manner and in accordance with the relevant documentation
- Assume direct control of documentation for aircraft under their control and ensuring that all required certification entries are promptly and correctly recorded
- Be available at short notice to perform AOG recovery of aircraft from deployed operations
- Liaise and discuss technical issues and forthcoming scheduled inputs with Maintrol.
- Ensure H&S requirements are met and adhered to under all circumstances
- Encouragement of the staff and open reporting in a just culture
- Motivation and leadership capability for building the corporate safety culture
What you'll bring
- CAA B1 licence with A330 type rating and company authorisation.
- Proven ability to manage and lead personnel.
- An understanding of the demands of working within a line maintenance environment.
- Experience of taking complete ownership to drive delivery of objectives within timescales.
- Comprehensive working knowledge of Airnav & envision.
- Experience in liaising and communicating with internal/external agencies including military.
- Good understanding of leading personnel development and mentoring.
- Experience of organising and leading short notice AOG recoveries from deployed locations.
- Previous history of military is desired to hold position of Sponsored Reservist.
Perks & benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Pension Matching
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