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This powerful combination puts us at the forefront of our industry, both in the air and on the ground. It also ensures we can deploy and support quickly and efficiently, even in the world’s most challenging environments.\nDue to continued growth and expansion, DEA is looking for a Maintenance Manager, reporting into the Head of Maintenance.\nKey Duties & Responsibilities\nSatisfactory completion and certification of all work required by contracted operators/customers in accordance with the work specification (Work Order and approved MOE procedures).\nEnsure that the organisation's procedures and standards are complied with when carrying out maintenance.\nIdentify updates and proposing changes to the MOE.\nEnsure the competency of all personnel engaged in maintenance.\nEnsure that any work for internal workshops or external contracted/subcontracted organisations are correctly detailed in a work order/contract and that the requirements of the contract/work order are fulfilled in respect of inspection.\nProvide feedback to the Compliance Monitoring Manager about the services provided by contracted Organisations, Subcontractors.\nRespond to non-compliances in the area of activity for which he/she is responsible, which arise from independent compliance audits.\nEnsure, through the workforce under his/her control, that the quality of workmanship in the final product is to a standard acceptable to the organisation and the appropriate authority.\nImplementation and promotion of the safety policy and human factor related issues including proactively reporting of near misses and potential compliance issues through the company’s reporting system (Centrik).\nEnsure availability of facilities appropriate to the planned work including hangars, workshops office accommodation, stores as applicable for the planned work.\nEnsure availability of a working environment appropriate to the tasks being undertaken.\nThe incoming inspection of components, parts, materials, tools and equipment, the related classification, segregation and storage according to the manufacturer’s recommendations. This will be done in conjunction with the Logistics Manager.\nDeveloping a production planning system appropriate to the amount and complexity of the maintenance scope of work. The day to day maintenance planning will be the responsibility of the Production Planner with assistance as required by the Maintenance Manager.\nAvailability of tools, equipment and materials to perform the planned tasks.\nAvailability of sufficient competent personnel to plan, perform, supervise, inspect and certify the work being performed.\nAvailability of all necessary maintenance data.\nRecording and notifying any inaccurate, incomplete or ambiguous procedure, practice information or maintenance instruction contained in the maintenance data used by maintenance personnel to the author of maintenance data.\nProviding a common work card or worksheet system to be used throughout relevant parts of the organisation and ensure such documents comply with 145.A.45 (e). DEA CAA MOE Iss 14 Rev 1 18 02nd December 2024\nNotifying the Head of Maintenance whenever deficiencies emerge which require his attention in respect of finance and the acceptability of standards (Head of Maintenance and Compliance. Monitoring Manager to be officially informed of any lack of 25% of available man-hours over a calendar month).\nSupplying the necessary technical documents for customers and storage of the organisation’s technical records.\nKnowledge of the CAA regulations and documentation signature implications.\nUnless previously reported by the Operator the Maintenance Manager is responsible to report to the manufacturer and to the CAA any condition of the aircraft (or a component), which can hazard safety. This will be accomplished using the Reporting module on Centrik.\nCarry out aircraft work and certification privileges where appropriate\nCoordinating, reporting and authorising overtime, subsistence claims, contractor invoices and timesheets for submission to payroll and accounts payable.\nPerforming PDR’s for staff within your area of responsibility.\nThe production of risk assessments as required to establish safe working practices and environment within the areas of responsibility. \nIn the event of prolonged absence of the Maintenance Manager the Echo Track Lead will deputise his position.\nThe Maintenance Manager will deputise for the Head of Maintenance.\n Compliance and Safety Monitoring Responsibilities:\nProactively identify and mitigate Pt 145 related risks and document via the company's risk register.\nEnsure Safety Performance Indicators are implemented and performance tracked.\nCarry out occurrence investigations\nWorking closely with the company’s Management Systems team to ensure internal and external audit findings are closed within an agreed timeframe.\nWorking closely with the company’s Management System team to ensure any occurrence reports are progressed in a timely manner.\nProducing and amending departmental PPG (Policy, Procedure & Guidance) documentation.\nResponsible for the management and development of the company’s Part-145 documentation repository on Centrik.\nEnsuring any departmental changes are captured via the Management of Change function.\nAssisting the Management Systems team promoting Safety and Compliance within the Part-145.\nFacilitating with all levels of the Part-145 team to ensure effective root cause analysis is performed in order to avoid recurrent findings.\nCapture and document lessons learned in order to demonstrate continuous improvement.\nSkills, Knowledge & Expertise\nAbility to continually manage conflicting demands and prioritise tasks and workload to meet deadlines.\nContinually demonstrate strong leadership and managerial competency.\nContinually demonstrate a positive attitude to work and operate as part of a team with the ability to motivate colleagues with enthusiasm.\nRemain calm under pressure and encourage others to do the same.\nAdopt a flexible and adaptable approach to work.\nApply methodical, strategic thinking and analysis to problem solving by gathering data; analysing relevant information to balance cost, benefit, and risk implications.\nExcellent organisational skills.\nCommunicate clearly and effectively.\nDeveloping and building relationships, with both internal and external stakeholders to meet business objectives.\nContinually demonstrate a personal commitment to the Company’s health, safety and environmental procedures, ensuring they are always implemented and respected.\nEnsure the implementation of plans or projects in a timely, efficient and effective manner.\nProactive ‘can do’ approach to problem solving and providing creative solutions.\nExperience\nEssential\n5yrs+ Aviation Engineering Management Experience\n Preferred\n5yrs+ As a certifying Aircraft Maintainer (CAA & EASA Pt 66 B1.1/B1.2/B3)\nHolds DEA Aircraft Type Ratings\nQualifications:\n\nEssential\nHF Initial/Continuation\nPt 145 Maintenance Organisation Approval\nSMS Training\nOccurrence Reporting Investigation\nEngineering Management Degree or equivalent or Aircraft Maintainers Licence (CAA & EASA Pt 66 B1.1/B1.2/B3) or Former holder of Form 4 CAA/EASA (Nominated Postholder Position)\n Preferred\nLeadership & Management (Level 4)\nAircraft Maintainers Licence (CAA & EASA Pt 66 B1.1/B1.2/B3)\nType Approved on DEA platforms\nShift Pattern\nMonday - Friday\n37.5 hours per week","description_format":"text","description_chars":7531,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Geospatial Analytics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T17:21:20Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":16,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T19:26:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dea-maintenance-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dea-maintenance-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T19:26:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":37626,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":673302},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=673302"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdea-maintenance-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdea-maintenance-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdea-maintenance-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dea-maintenance-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdea-maintenance-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4081071}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"dea.aero","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4081071},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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