BA Cityflyer
BA Cityflyer Fleet Performance Engineer
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BA Cityflyer is an airline with a difference. Yes, we’re part of the British Airways family and take great pride delivering the same impeccable customer service. However, we also do things in our own, unique way.
We serve a business and leisure market from London City, a single-terminal airport just east of Canary Wharf. It’s a place where you’ll really get to know your colleagues and become part of a close-knit team.
You might also get to know our customers too, some of whom fly with us weekly, or even daily. In fact, our diverse and dedicated team really feel like they’re part of a family when they join us.
So, whether you are a reassuring voice on the end of a phone, a smile at the door, under a wing keeping the turbines spinning or landing us gently in exciting places, a job at BA Cityflyer is yours to make.
This is an airline where your original personality and skills will really shine through.
The role: BA Cityflyer Fleet Performance Engineer
Salary: £74,106 per annum plus a non contractual discretionary incentive award.
Due to an internal move we have an opportunity join our Maintenance Control Team as a Fleet Performance Engineer. This role manages and develops BA Cityflyer’s preventative maintenance programme and leads the airlines predicative maintenance philosophy for our fleet of Embraer E190 aircraft. With a focus on the highest levels of aircraft reliability this role helps ensure we carry our passengers safely, and on time, to their desired destination.
What You’ll Do
Using multiple data sources, you’ll identify the maintenance tasks, outside or scheduled maintenance programme, required to keep our fleet flying without interrupting our scheduled operations. These requirements will be communicated to our line and base engineering teams using Engineering Technical Requirements, work instructions, in a timely manner to address repetitive, latent, and active aircraft defects.
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This role ensures continued focus on Technical Dispatch Reliability from an Operational and reliability perspective to meet the company’s targets. You should be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of this roll by developing, maintaining, and presenting operational and performance reports.
In addition to the predictive analytical element of this role you’ll act as a technical expect on our fleet, being able to support the Maintrol Team with ad-hoc shift cover and guidance on troubleshooting complex issues and repetitive defects.
You’ll collaborate with our Safety Service and Air Ops teams on the review of Flight Data conditional events, interpreting the flight data recorders, for required Engineering follow-up requirements.
What You’ll Bring To British Airways
- Ability to make decisions based on sound rationale and technical knowledge.
- Sound analytical skills - ability to manipulate, analyse and report on complex data
- Able to work under pressure and deliver against challenging targets
- Ability to travel to various locations within the UK and Europe
- Ability to hold a full airside pass
- Communicate the right information in the right way and effectively with the team you work in.
- Ability to communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately at all levels, both verbally and in writing
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships
- Ability to influence at all levels
- IT Skills (Advanced Excel and preferably some coding/SQL/data analytics and aircraft health monitoring Applications)
- Knowledge of the Embraer E-Jet family of aircraft
Your Experience
- CAA Part-66 B1/B2 licence or equivalent engineering technical qualification
- Type rating on Embraer E190 aircraft, or experience within a similar technical support/technical services role
- Working knowledge of CAA/EASA Part-CAMO, Part-M and Part 145 requirements
- Technical Services experience
- Experience of the aircraft certification, technical support and maintenance from a practical and continued airworthiness viewpoint
- Knowledge of Airline business, regulatory and operating environment
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What We Offer
We believe that all the people who work with us should feel valued for the part they play. It’s one of the reasons our rewards go far beyond a competitive salary.
From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.
At British Airways you’ll have the chance to take on new challenges and move forward in a way that feels right for you. We encourage all those who work for us to consider opportunities right across our business to help you develop and progress.
We never stand still, and we don’t expect our people to either.
Inclusion & Diversity
At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work.
Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain.
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