Senior Technical Services Engineer - Reliability & Value Engineering

Role Introduction

Reports to: Technical Services Manager (Reliability & Value Engineering)

Departments: ENG - Engineering

Engineering’s role is focused on reassurance, keeping our people and our customer’s safe, ensuring that in every aspect of our operation we have industry leading performance and that our various fleet programmes are delivering to plan, budget and specification. Engineering’s ambition is to be one of the world’s highest performing, customer centric and progressive engineering teams.

The role of the Senior Technical Services Engineer – Reliability & Value Engineering is to deliver operational excellence in support of the airline’s vision to become one of the world’s greatest service brands by ensuring the Cathay Pacific fleet is safe, compliant, reliable, on-time and defect-free.

Key Responsibilities

The Technical Services section is responsible for Engineering activities related to the airworthiness, safety, reliability, operational disruption, and commercial cost effectiveness of all aircraft types operated by Cathay Pacific Airways and its customer airlines.

Responsible for:

• Providing the operation with specialist reliability and value engineering based technical support.
• Driving continuous improvement, processes and procedures.
• Managing the technical relationship with vendors to ensure they effectively support Engineering’s Vision and Goals.
• Keeping abreast of industry best practice ideas and developments - adopting these where appropriate
• Representation of the HKAR-21 design organisation as a DE or CVE
• Prepare Maintenance and Reliability Summary (MARS) and Component Reliability Report (CRR).
• Develop effective trends monitoring and measurement criteria.
• Assist in management of component and system issues through the Reliability Action Report (RAR) and Operation Reliability Meeting (ORM) process.
• Perform rogue unit identification and correction action follow-up.
   

Using Reliability Centred Maintenance Philosophy to:

• Ensure an efficient effective maintenance programme to be safe, compliant and consistently achieve optimal levels of aircraft availability at the lowest cost,
• Manage operational key drivers and KPI’s,
• Review and develop the aircraft maintenance program,
• Review OEM documentation and industry best practices.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years' experience in an Engineering role.
• Degree in Engineering or aerospace discipline, or an equivalent professional qualification. Strong aviation engineering knowledge and experience, preferably in aircraft systems role.
• Holder of (or capable of obtaining) Design Engineer (DE) position in an HKAR-21 subpart J Design Organisation
• Strong supplier management experience.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to interact and influence across Engineering sections, OEM’s, other operators, industry experts and regulators
• Candidate with less experience will be considered for Technical Service Engineer

Application Deadline: 26 Sep 2024

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