Base & Intermediate Maintenance Manager

Perfect time to join us as we expand our Engineering Team to ensure that we are equipped to meet growing demand and make the most of future opportunities
- Rare leadership opportunity, located at our Melbourne Precinct Maintenance Hub
- Immediate access to a range of employee benefits, including our staff travel program

Join the Jetstar team at a pivotal moment in our history as we embark on a new era of low fares travel. As we emerge from the pandemic, the outlook for our domestic and international flying is very strong and our teams are excited to welcome our new A321LR Neo’s as we continue on our mission to offer all day, every day low fares so more people can fly to more places, more often.

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 Base & Intermediate Maintenance Manager. 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 Base & Intermediate Maintenance Manager, 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 Engineering
- 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.

About you

We are searching for a confident, resilient individual who has a genuine passion for leading others and thrives in a complex, fast paced operational environment. You will enjoy working as part of a broader leadership team that is focused on continuous improvement and engaging our people and have the relationship management capability to effectively communicate with a variety of critical stakeholders.

You will bring:

- Solid experience (5+ years) in a Line Maintenance or Base Maintenance environment with previous experience in a management position
- A CASA Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Licence, or demonstrated aircraft industry experience, would hold you in high regard
- A passion for people leadership, coupled with exposure to leading an operational team
- Strength in problem solving and decision making, including the ability to consider the customer, cost, people and industrial impacts when proposing solutions
- Exposure to leading within a unionised environment would hold you in high regard
- Confidence in the use of TRAX, AIRMAN, AIRNAV, ROCADE or similar systems

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 part