Armament, Egress & Sur Eqpt Superintendent
Summary
Oversees aircraft maintenance operations in Dhahran, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards while managing teams and resources to maintain airworthiness.
Grade\: 6
Location\: Dhahran
Working hours\: full time
Advert closing\: 30/07/2026
Responsibilities
· Undertake review of maintenance and challenge current practices and identify potential capacity for improvements within the organisation.
· Recognising and Manage any malpractice that could affect the airworthiness or safety of the assigned components or personnel within their area of responsibility and raising the issue/concern to the Maintenance Manager.
· Ensure/ Manage that the necessary manpower and facilities resource are available, in accordance with company policies to enable their organisations to perform their duties and any contractual obligations.
· Monitor standards of the personnel within their organisation in order to identify any negative trends, non-conformities or motivational deficiencies.
· Accountable and responsible for all person’s development reports within their direct line of management.
· Providing a working environment of trust, where all employees of whom are professionals, each have a clear understanding of what standard of behaviour is considered acceptable or unacceptable, following the companies “Code of Conduct”.
· Ensure all maintenance activities comply with company, RSAF, and regulatory safety and quality standards.
· Manage operational readiness of shop equipment in line with shop component repair plan and schedule necessary calibrations. Enhanced by ensuring the correct tooling, approved data is available. Raise appropriate media for deficiencies in approved data (e.g., TPDIRs, TQs, etc.).
· Ensure/ manage that all personnel undertaking maintenance in their area of responsibility are authorised.
· Oversee the development and training of personnel, ensuring competency.
· Ensure effective communication and coordination with maintenance teams, engineering departments and management.
· Safety\: Uphold a safety-first approach, implementing safety measures and guidelines to protect personnel, product and operations. Support and promote Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) and Product Safety & Environment (PS&E).
· Compliance\: Ensure adherence to BAE Systems Operational Framework, Life Cycle Management (LCM) practices, Maintenance & Continuing Airworthiness (M&CA) Mandates, Maintenance Organisation Exposition (MOE), and Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) Logistics Management Regulations (LMR) to meet the contractual obligations.
· Support\: Enhancing customer satisfaction in supporting maintenance, airworthiness, safety and continual improvement. Developing new ways to improve the customer experience or otherwise growing the maintenance organization as a whole. This includes creating personnel development programs for both company and customer employees, implementing new processes and procedures.
· Continuous Improvements (CI)\: Strive for business excellence, by driving a culture of CI throughout the maintenance organization, encouraging innovative ideas and initiatives. Continuously seek opportunities to apply and adapt changes or improvements to best industry practices to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in the maintenance processes and create a sustainable future.
Job Requirements\:
Essential\:
· A recognised qualification to NVQ3/ONC/OND/BTEC level in a relevant technical discipline, or a technical apprenticeship, or suitable equivalent technical qualification acceptable to M&CA,
OR
· Part 66 licensed (current or lapsed), or suitable equivalent technical license acceptable to M&CA.
· Relevant type training (‘Q’ Course) and equipment specific training if required
· Have at least 10 years post qualification practical maintenance experience within operational flying aircraft environment supported by formal recorded workplace applied related training OR 5 years on same aircraft type.
· Have at least 3 years experience in a relevant management role.
· Must have experience working knowledge of EASA/M&CA Part 145.
· High level of interpersonal skills to co-ordinate a number of activities and the ability to communicate, influence and direct decision-making.
· Saudi Council of Engineering (SCE) Registration.
SAUDI NATIONAL EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
In return for the required high levels of commitment and hard work you will receive a competitive salary and benefits package, including a generous leave and leave allowance, a full health care scheme and access to discounted gym membership.
BAE Systems
BAE Systems has a heritage of commitment to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For 50 years, we have provided the platforms and services that support the Saudi armed forces to defend the interests of the Kingdom. In support of the Saudi Arabia National Objectives, we’ve invested heavily in the development of Saudi people, technology, infrastructure and local companies in the defence supply chain. Our investments have helped to
develop the Saudi defence industry as well as developing a skilled and highly productive workforce.
(BAE Systems KSA is committed to the full inclusion of qualified people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, BAE Systems KSA will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation during the job application or interview process, and or to perform essential job functions).
Note\: All appointments in Saudi Arabia are subject to receipt of all necessary Government and/or Customer approvals..