Maintenance Control Engineer

Job Description

• Leverage your technical expertise to ensure the safe and reliable operation of Jetstar's fleet
• 1 x Full time, permanent opportunity based in Melbourne on a 4 on, 4 off rotational shift roster
• Take off with exclusive employee perks, including our world-class staff travel program

About Our Engineering Team

We rely on our Jetstar Engineering Team to deliver our superior safety standards, up to the second. They're the trouble-shooters, glitch-fixers and tech-experts who make sure we take to the sky safely. Solving problems. Trying new things. Getting hands-on. Fixing and double checking. It's all part of the day job as a Jetstar Engineer – whether you're on the frontline as a Maintenance Engineer or in our Engineering Corporate & Support Team ensuring that we land deadlines, keep projects on track and work as a team to help us transform our fleet for the better.

Your Opportunity

As a Maintenance Control Engineer (MCE), you will be responsible for the management of Engineering production, compliance, and technical aspects for Day of Operations within the regulatory and airworthiness framework. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering Operations, you will have ownership of aircraft AOG recovery and providing technical advice to AMO(s), Ops Delivery and Flight Crew whilst also supporting the MOC team, AMOs for defect monitoring/rectification and fleet health.

As a MCE, you will be working in a dynamic and unpredictable environment and you will need to maintain a high level of control and integrity in your decision making/communication.

You'll be responsible for:

• Taking ownership of the fleet and having a full understanding of fleet defects
• Act as the primary point of contact for all AOG aircraft events and recovery
• Supporting AMOs with recovering AOG aircraft as quickly as possible
• Ensure fleet compliance is maintained
• Receiving and actioning any communications regarding technical issues from Engineers, Operations, Flight Crew, Technical Services and Management
• Assess defect deferrals against MIS and the maintenance plan as well as the effect to the operation
• Work with planning teams to route and plan work on aircraft

To be successful in this role, ideally you'll have:

• Hold a B.1.1 or B2 Aircraft Maintenance Engineers License (preferably CASA/EASA), with a type rating on B787 or A320/1 (desirable)
• Minimum of 5 years experience in an Line/Heavy Maintenance environment
• Maintenance control experience highly regarded
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels within a team
• Strong knowledge of PART 145/42 regulatory framework
• Ability to manage change and any related departmental change programs
• Awareness of aviation MIS aircraft health monitoring and general computer systems

Your Life At Jetstar Is Unlike Any Other

Put the craft in aircraft: There's a new fleet of A321LR NEO's waiting for your arrival. Beyond Jetstar, our Engineering Team get to exposure to projects related to the Qantas Group's A320/1, B787 and A321 Freighters, plus Jetstar Branded Airlines (JBA's) in Singapore and Japan.

Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar.

There's a place for everyone at Jetstar: For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us. If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.

We're Jetstar. Let's takeoff together

We can't wait to hear from you. Apply by: Thursday 13th November 2025

About us

We're Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we've flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.