Component Paint Technician Supervisor

For Saudi National Only

Grade\: 7

Location\: Taif

Advert closing\: 29/10/2026

Responsibilities\:

• The Job Holder within the Typhoon Maintenance Organisation, responsible for the aspects of Component Paint shop, compliance and continuous improvement while holding company line management responsibilities commensurate with the role, which includes providing functional direction and guidance, exercising duty of care, welfare, health & safety.

• To provide effective delivery of all activities as specified in the shop component repair plan.

• Support Salam Project success against the Maintenance Support Service contracted Operational Readiness (OR) and Key Performance Measurements (KPM)

• 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. This includes highlighting potential 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.

• Accountable to their Primary Line Manager; however, they have direct access to Secondary Line Manager. This is to provide an independent route to address any issues within the Component Paint maintenance environment.

• Undertake review of maintenance and challenge current practices and identify potential capacity for improvements within the organisation.

• Recognising 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 Senior Maintenance Manager.

• Ensuring 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 and indirect line management, within their Area of Responsibility.

• 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”.

• Provide training, consolidation and counterpart development activities to the RSAF and BAE Systems personnel.

• Ensure all tasks are completed within designated timeframes to support Forward Maintenance and SMU activities.

• Maintain 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., TPRFs, TQs, etc.).

• Ensure that all personnel undertaking maintenance in their area of responsibility are authorised.

• Any damage or deficiencies to equipment and infrastructure, are reported and monitored using the correct media (e.g., IDR, MDR, CAR, SORT, 1400-61, etc.).

• Maintain an anti-FOD surveillance and report potential Hazards, which is further enhanced by the regular oversight checks of the shop and the components in the shop.

• Ensure all maintenance tasks are carried out and meet the highest quality standards, including recording of maintenance carried out on the airworthiness tool (ESS) to accurately reflect the work carried out, test results indications/ values, consumables and POL.

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Conduct oversight checks to ensure high standards of shop husbandry.

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Assist in updating the TTP131 spreadsheet to reflect any forecasted planning, highlight any deficiencies or delivery/ FDD issues with consumables & PPE at the earliest opportunity.

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Ensure daily shop status is updated in a timely fashion to support the reporting to customer and company.

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Ensure that your individual breathing air quality test / Qualification through online portal, provide evidence of a successful pass certificate to be passed to training & displayed within Individual Logbooks.

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Ensure that your individual breathing air quality checks/mask checks and annual COSSH medicals are carried out in accordance with Company/local procedures.

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Ensure that your individual appropriate records are maintained.

Job Requirements\:

• 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.

• Have at least 7 years post qualification practical maintenance experience within operational flying aircraft environment supported by formal recorded workplace applied related training OR 3 years on same aircraft type.

• Relevant type training (‘Q’ Course) and equipment specific training if required.

• Leadership skills and proven ability to supervise all levels of engineering personnel.

• The successful candidate, Saudi or Expatriate must obtain Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE) membership at the appropriate level, prior to starting the new role or commencing employment in KSA, SCE membership must be maintained throughout their employment in this role.

Desirable

• Broad Aerospace and defence company / industry knowledge.

• An understanding of BAESSA engineering operating procedures.

• Experience working with ESS.

• Proven supervisory experience within the area of definition.

CORE (Q3) FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES\:

The post holder will have the following background\:

• Experience serving on an operational military flying unit.

• Experience of working in the aviation industry in a Gulf Coast Country preferred.

• The ability to act upon his own initiative within the scope of his job.

• A conscientious approach to work and meticulous attention to detail.

• A track record of meeting strict deadlines without compromising standards and quality.

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For Internal Employee

• All Candidates must inform their current Line Manager that they are applying for this job
• Employees who started in their current role within the last six months are not eligible to apply for Company vacancies of the same grade.
• Employees who started in their current role within the last two years are not eligible to apply for Company vacancies where the vacancy is at a higher grade.

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).