Part-145 Maintenance Manager

An exceptional opportunity for a highly motivated, senior professional seeking a challenging and rewarding leadership role within a fast-paced, growing MRO business. Based on-site at St Athan, the Accountable Manager will lead the operational team in delivering safe, efficient, and cost-effective aircraft transition services to airline and lessor customers. A key objective of the role is to achieve operational excellence through strong leadership, positive culture, and the implementation of business improvement strategies — all whilst maintaining full regulatory compliance.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the Maintenance Operations team, providing strong direction and management with a results-oriented focus across safety, people, quality, service delivery, and cost.
• Ensure compliance with the organisation's Part 145 MOEs and all relevant regulatory requirements.
• Drive the safety strategy and make a proactive contribution to the overall safety culture of the business, influencing key stakeholders on all safety aspects relating to service delivery.
• Determine and enact requisite actions for the management of non-compliances, establishing robust processes and a working framework for all future non-compliance issues.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with relevant regulatory bodies.
• Lead, organise, measure, and drive the performance of the operations team in support of company goals and objectives.
• Provide technical support to the operational team as required.
• Design, develop, and deliver management processes that comply with relevant regulatory and business requirements.
• Proactively measure, monitor, and evaluate operational KPIs, taking appropriate actions to ensure performance levels are maintained.

Key Attributes

• A credible, accomplished MRO leader with well-developed communication, influencing, and negotiation skills, ideally gained within organisations undergoing significant transformation.
• A people-focused leadership style, with the ability to tailor your approach to get the best from the collective team.
• Strong, credible impact with a demonstrated capability to resolve conflict and build lasting relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to make the complex simple, with a track record of driving results in a healthy, challenging environment.

Skills & Experience

• 10+ years' experience in aircraft maintenance, preferably with exposure to aircraft lessors.
• Degree or equivalent level of knowledge and skill acquired through experience, qualifications, and professional development.
• Proven experience operating at senior level within an MRO function, with strong leadership and management credentials.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a range of project types, complex business initiatives, and change programmes.
• Strong commercial acumen with a track record of driving continuous improvement and developing business cases.
• Liaison experience with aviation industry stakeholders, particularly lessors.
• Working knowledge of inspection procedures, methods, equipment, and accepted industry standards.
• Strong background in Safety Management Systems (SMS) and quality assurance within the aviation maintenance industry.
• Previous experience as a Form 4 post holder.
• EASA Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance Licence (preferred).

Location & Hours

St Athan, South Wales | Full Time