Component Supervisor

The Component Spray Bay Supervisor will be an experienced and skilled Paint Supervisor, undertaking a range of detailed maintenance activities in the Aircraft Component Spray Bay.

The post holder will be responsible for maintaining airworthiness through appropriate task delegation and authorisation on the Aircraft Component Spray Bay activities and will be able to demonstrate awareness of broader external dependencies and identify areas for continuous improvement.

Core Activities

• Undertaking and completing tasks in the Component Spray Bay that includes recovering surfaces of aircraft panels and components aswell as recovering the surface finish of the Typhoon aircraft at 1st line operations.
• Stand up the Component Spray Bay activities/capability in Qatar.
• Demonstrate a flexible and proactive attitude to carrying out responsibilities appropriate to the role and take direction appropriately.
• Ensuring staff are sufficiently competent and approved for the maintenance tasks allocated to them. Maintain personal & teams task authorisation for working on an aircraft or components in accordance with AMC requirements.
• Responsible for meeting agreed delivery targets in the short to medium term through the supervision of others. Progress reporting against delivery targets to management.
• Provide guidance and leadership to the team. Develop team members using formal assessment processes, e.g. Performance Reviews, supports and sponsors training requests including ‘on the job training’. Demonstrate sound and comprehensive communication and people management skills.
• Maintaining personal and teams task authorisation for working on an aircraft or components in accordance with QAF requirements.
• Maintaining a personal Log Book to demonstrate currency on completion of On the Job training (OJT) activities, sign other personnel’s logbooks as appropriate within your trade and skills boundaries. If you are an approved designated assessor, undertake authorisation and task competency approvals, and check Pt 145 license application packs prior to submission.
• Undertaking support tasks within the Component Spray Bay facility, which are required to maintain compliance with the MOE procedures (e.g. oversight checks, control of tooling/test equipment etc).
• Undertaking fault evaluation and raise ad hoc work cards for ‘found faults’ during maintenance.

Key Accountabilities

• Performance indicators – Ensure the effective management of Regulatory activities by setting delivery targets, monitoring progress and developing performance improvement programmes. Prioritises activities within/across teams to maximise efficiency. Responsible for the assessment of escalated issues for any impact on Continuing Airworthiness and generating effective resolution, or sponsoring escalation to management, as appropriate.
• Completion of activities – Ensure all maintenance activities are appropriately documented and airworthiness records are maintained on relevant systems (IT/paper based). Compile required reporting, identify any issues and escalate as appropriate.
• Procedure/standards – Comply with the regulatory framework, and associated procedures and standards, and any other company procedures and standards, as applicable. Identify and propose changes, as required.