Technical Services Director

Description

Roles and responsibilities

Responsible to define aircraft configuration specs for newly leased-in or bought aircraft to satisfy local regulations and standards.

Responsible to issue and update maintenance program (MP) and minimum equipment list (MEL) for each type of aircraft added to the fleet.

Study applicability of each AD or mandatory/alert service bulletin and issue an engineering order (EO) to applicable ones.

Study optional service bulletins as per policy and issue EO to implement selected service bulletins.

Performs engine fleet management and trend monitoring.

Responsible to communicate with manufacturers to receive maintenance and airworthiness data and its revisions, distribute current revised data to users and contracted service providers according to approved distribution lists.

Responsible to issue periodic revision status for each document of maintenance airworthiness data.

Liaison with aircraft and engine manufacturers to request concessions, chronic defects rectification, and repair schemes not included by the manufacturer.

Prepare engineering study for reliability reports and issue recommendations that are displayed to RCB for approval and implementation.

Prepare long, medium, and short term plans for aircraft maintenance events based on commercial department needs, aircraft maintenance program (MP), and modification campaigns.

Issue bill of work (BOW) for each check and prepare work package (WP) for each check to be sent to line/maintenance or contracted AMO before start of check with sufficient time. The BOW and WP shall include but are not limited to routine, non-routine, modifications, TCI components, and LLPs to be replaced.

Material control and procurement within technical services shall confirm material, component, and special tool availability before check or at defect rectification due time.

Controls inventory of supplied material and its stock.

Controls aircraft technical records, executed checks summary reports, and signed work packages. Then uses this feedback to update:

• MP status
• SB/EO status
• AD status
• Open items status

Controls planning, scheduling, and short-term escalation forms for approval from chief inspector and is responsible to track availability of requirements to close such open or deferred tasks in due time.

Controls aircraft records to keep and update logbooks and technical records as per ECAR and GMM required retention periods and is responsible to prepare records for delivery or redelivery for leased or sold aircraft records.

He is responsible for ensuring that the approved maintenance organization has all required facilities readily available and working to comply with the tasks allocated.

Makes sure that sufficient competent personnel are employed to plan, perform, supervise, inspect, and certify the work to be performed.

Makes sure that the required material is available and in a condition to be used without delay for the scope of work allocated to the maintenance organization.

Assures that all tools are available, tested, registered, and inspected for proper use during all maintenance activities.

Prepares and maintains aircraft maintenance program as approved by ECAA.

Ensures that all necessary airworthiness data and maintenance manuals from airworthiness authorities, aircraft manufacturer, and CMM vendors are available and up to date for the tasks being performed.

Ensures maintenance and local working procedures are established to achieve good maintenance practices in compliance with ECAA requirements and for establishing a quality system for the ECAR 145 organization to ensure the highest standards of airworthiness and workmanship.

Attends the safety committee meetings as a member.

Mitigates or controls the risks as assigned.

Monitors and measures the effectiveness of the operational quality and safety corrective actions.

Ensures that corrective actions are achieved for deficiencies resulting from maintenance raisings, internal and external audits carried out by quality auditors, ECAA, or other authorities.

Prepares and keeps up to date statistical data as may be required by the ECAR 145 organization or other departments.

Keeps the accountable manager informed of trends, status, and plans of the approved maintenance organization.

Maintains an effective relationship with other departments as may be required for effective coordination of business activities.

Executes such decisions, plans, and controls required to achieve the aims of the organization.

Delegates responsibility and authority as appropriate to subordinates; such delegation, however, will not relieve him of his accountability.

Requirements

Qualifications

The maintenance director shall be an experienced, qualified engineer who has at least 10 years managerial or working experience in maintenance organizations.

He must be thoroughly familiar with ECARs 121 and 145.

He should be able to apply modern computer software and hardware.

He must be acceptable to the ECAA (Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority).