Line Maintenance Manager, Engineering

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
- Enjoy the flexibility of a 4 on/4 off shift roster - based at our Melbourne Engineering Precinct
- 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 an opportunity to join our Engineering AMO Leadership Team in the role of Line Maintenance Manager. Located at our Melbourne Engineering Precinct (near Melbourne Airport) and reporting to our State Manager - VIC/TAS, you will play a critical role in delivering management to the daily operations of Jetstar’s Melbourne Engineering Line Station, including elements of both intermediate and base maintenance. You will deliver critical leadership and guidance to our dedicated team of Engineers, ensuring the ongoing safety and compliance of people and operations.

As Line Maintenance Manager, your responsibilities will include:

- Providing critical support to the State Manager, VIC/TAS for the ongoing safety and compliance of AMO people and operations in accordance with the AMO exposition
- 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.
- Daily operational management, including managing aircraft schedule disruptions and recovery in consultation with MOC, management of daily unscheduled and planned maintenance, liaison with a variety of stakeholders such as maintenance planning, and participation in daily operation meetings
- Managing shift rostering requirements including roster build, overtime management, fatigue management within roster build, ad-hoc call outs, inclusion of relevant allowances, correction and submission of shift timesheets.
- 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 may be an experienced aviation operational leader looking for your next challenge, or a current AME or LAME looking to take your first jump into a frontline leader role.

You will bring:

- A passion for people leadership, ideally 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
- Comprehensive knowledge of the CASA regulatory framework
- Solid experience (5+ years) in an aircraft maintenance environment
- Able to work a shift roster (4 days on / 4 days off).

Applications Close: Sunday 9 October

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 airf