Lead Aircraft Technician (MAR/NASA)

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Lead Aircraft Technician (Mechanical) to join our team at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

You will lead Maintenance and Repair, execution, and delivery of aircraft inspections & repairs. Delegate as well as perform inspections & repairs of assigned work.  You will also drive work performance of technicians to ensure delivery dates are met. Raise issues and communicate/works to resolve daily challenges with Stakeholders of MAR Management.  

Meet the team:

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

Your working environment:

Just 45 minutes east of downtown Orlando you’ll find our facility nestled in at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

How we care for you:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)

• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.

• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages. 

• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

Primary Responsibilities:

Team Leadership: 30%

• Ensure compliance with FAA, company policy, OSHA, safety and environmental regulations

• Maintain aircraft delivery schedule dates taking into account parts, technician availability.

• Plan and prioritize the workload to ensure on time delivery of components in accordance with delivery schedules

• Control, assign workforce and monitor work flow according to schedules.

• Drumbeating the aircraft activity to reach target turnaround time.

• Raise any identified risk of not meeting a delivery date for an order of the assigned aircraft to MAR management following the defined communication process

• Identify missing parts and materials that could prevent meeting a delivery date and work on solutions. 

• Define when is the latest day we could receive the latest part to still meet the committed date

• Update MAR management on workload/capacity adequacy

• Identifying training needs in order to adjust capacity to workload

• Guide aircraft technicians and provide performance e