Engineering Manager

3 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Qantas Airways Limited Full time

Rare leadership opportunity, located at our Melbourne Precinct Maintenance Hub
- Immediate access to a range of employee benefits, including our staff travel program

If you’ve ever thought about a career in aviation — now is the perfect time to take off with Jetstar We are undertaking one of the biggest recruitment campaigns in our 19-year-history. Join us during an exciting period as we welcome more state-of-the-art aircraft, launch new international routes and continue our mission to help more people take off through low fares.

About our Engineering Team

The Jetstar Engineering Team are at the forefront of delivering our superior safety standards. They are responsible for ensuring the airworthiness of our fleet of aircraft, including completing all required maintenance that must be carried out on time and to approved standards to ensure they take to the skies safely. At every stage, all maintenance needs to be documented, detailed records maintained, with aircraft parts ordered and available at all times.

As part of our investment in our future, we have launched the Melbourne Engineering Precinct, which is the main maintenance hub of our network. Our team has the opportunity to work not only on Jetstar fleet, but customer aircraft - A320/21, B717 and A321 Freighter. Our Melbourne Precinct has also become the proud home for our Apprentice Program.

The Opportunity

We now have a newly created opportunity in the role of State (Engineering) Manager, VIC/TAS. Reporting to our Senior Manager - AMO, and acting as a critical member of the Melbourne Precinct Engineering Leadership Team, this role is responsible for the management of Base Maintenance Operations in the Jetstar Melbourne Hangar. You will deliver exceptional people leadership to a team of 80+ engineering professionals, driving key initiatives and improvement plans with a focus on fostering a culture centred around safety and quality of both people and operations.

As State Manager VIC/TAS, your responsibilities will include:

- Fostering a culture centred around safety and compliance of both the people and operations in accordance with the AMO exposition and state OHS guidelines.
- Implement initiatives and continuous improvements that align with the Jetstar Engineering strategies
- Provide continual compliance control of both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activity daily
- Be present at all operational meetings within our Engineering team
- Ensure that all operational issues are communicated appropriately in a timely manner
- Fostering a superior safety culture, including consultation with the team on safety matters, adherence to safe work practises including Fatigue Management Principles, safety inductions, leading investigations and implementation of post incident/hazard identification action plans
- Creating and maintaining a quality focused culture, including ensuring team member compliance with JQ MOE and CASA Regulatory requirements, ensuring that all aircraft technical documentation is completed and distributed in accordance with policy and procedures, and carrying out ongoing quality monitoring of documentation and procedures
- Delivering strong leadership to a team of direct reports, with an emphasis on growth and development and team member engagement.

What’s in it for you
- Our team members enjoy access to unlimited heavily discounted fares to destinations all over the world - not only for team members, but for their favourite travel companions too. Our staff travel benefit includes discounts on airfares, accommodation, car hire and travel insurance for both domestic and international travel. Discounts can be used within the Jetstar Group airlines, Qantas and other partner airlines.
- Access to a range of salary packaging and leave benefits.
- As a member of the Qantas Group, you will have the opportunity to build a career across multiple functions, locations and airlines.
- Structured programs and resources to support your health and wellbeing and development.
- Talk to us about how we can make this role work flexibly for you such that you can achieve your potential.

About Jetstar

The Jetstar Group is one of the largest low-cost airline groups in the Asia Pacific by revenue and has flown more than 300 million passengers since it launched in 2004. Collectively the Jetstar Group offers more than 5,000 (pre-COVID) flights a week to 58 destinations in 18 countries and territories across the Asia Pacific region. The Group operates a fleet of more than 90 aircraft, including Airbus A320, Airbus A321 and Boeing 787-8.

Jetstar's mission is to offer all day, every day low fares to enable more people to fly to more places, more often.

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