Emirates
Aircraft Technician - London Heathrow
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Job Purpose
Join the world’s largest International airline and take your engineering career to new heights. At Emirates, our Aircraft Technicians play a key role in maintaining the safety, reliability, and performance of the Emirates fleet — including the world’s largest A380 and Boeing 777 operations — as well as third-party aircraft.
As an Aircraft Technician, you’ll work as part of a professional maintenance team under the guidance of a Licensed Aircraft Engineer (LAE). You’ll perform a range of maintenance tasks on aircraft and components, ensuring full compliance with approved procedures, regulatory standards, and manufacturer requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out routine servicing, maintenance, and approved structural repairs on aircraft, engines, and components in accordance with manufacturer and regulatory procedures.
- Perform component replacements and other maintenance activities as directed by the immediate supervisor or LAE.
- Use and interpret approved documentation such as the Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM), Illustrated Parts Catalogue (IPC), and Component Maintenance Manual (CMM).
- Assist Licensed Aircraft Engineers in aircraft walk-around checks, troubleshooting, defect rectification, and modification work.
- Follow all safety procedures for aircraft refuelling, fluid replenishment, and system charging/servicing.
- Promote a strong safety culture by identifying and reporting potential hazards and ensuring work areas are clean, organized, and free of Foreign Object Debris (FOD).
- Maintain excellent housekeeping standards in all work locations, including ramp, stands, vehicles, and toolboxes.
- Comply with airport safety regulations, maintain a valid airside driving permit, and adhere to all airside manoeuvring requirements.
- Ensure prompt attendance to allocated tasks to maximize aircraft ground time efficiency and minimize operational delays.
- Communicate any defects or technical findings to the LAE clearly and ensure smooth shift handovers.
- Support station material and stores audits to maintain Engineering Quality Compliance.
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Qualification
Our Ideal Aircraft Technician Will Have
- Recognised aircraft maintenance qualification or apprenticeship.
- Relevant experience within aircraft maintenance, repair. A380 experience in particular will catch our attention.
- Strong teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to follow instructions accurately.
- Familiarity with aviation safety standards, documentation, and quality systems.
- Commitment to maintaining the highest standards of safety, precision, and professionalism.
Things You Must Have To Be Considered
- The unrestricted right to live and work in the UK, unfortunately we are not able to assist with sponsorships or visas.
- A UK driving licence.
- The ability to pass a five year history check including a criminal records check, in order to hold an airport pass.
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Salary & benefits
Why Join Emirates Engineering at London Heathrow?
You will get to work with cutting-edge aircraft whilst building a global career with an award-winning airline. At London Heathrow you would be joining a fantastic team in one of our busiest stations outside of Dubai.
Our teams work on a 4 on 4 off shift pattern, with no night shifts. Recognizing the importance that our people play in making Emirates such a success, we offer competitive salaries, along with shift pay, licence pay (if held) and other allowances, which we expect to be around 55k in your first year with us. Each November we like to reward our team with a contractual one week salary bonus, and after five years we increase that to two weeks. Your health and wellbeing is really important to us, so we will also give you benefits such as staff travel from day one where you can use your annual leave (up to 26 days plus bank holidays) to explore our global route and hotel network. To make sure we are keeping you healthy, you will be given private health care and a health cash plan to look after yourself and many other benefits such as profit share, high street discounts and private healthcare.
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