Volantes Technical Recruitment, on behalf of our long-standing Rotary Client have the permanent role of Hangar Superintendent available.

This role is for their Stansted Base.

Working hours are Monday to Friday , 0800 – 1630 each day.

The purpose of the role is to Control all aspects of aircraft scheduled and unscheduled maintenance through the delegation of tasks to the Engineering team. This will be done in conjunction with the Technical Services Department and Technical Director / Head of Engineering or Engineering Manager.

Principle Accountabilities

• Control and standards of performance of the Maintenance Department
• Day-to-day administration of staff
• Overseeing work on aircraft and in support departments
• Ensure the Stores’ procedures are adhered to in a timely manner and approve spares for the support of maintenance activity
• Active role in aircraft maintenance
• Manage customer enquiries from end-to-end, giving regular feedback
• In the absence of the Engineering Manager (EM), the Superintendent will deputise and perform agreed functions of the EM role as applicable

Administrative Responsibilities

• Control of overtime and lieu time
• Audits of the Hangar and Facilities in accordance with Company procedures
• Regularly meet with the Engineering Manager and provide detailed weekly report in a verbal format
• Oversee the allocation of engineering staff to cover line and base maintenance activities, both on and off base
• Assist with planning scheduled maintenance
• Ensure aircraft documentation is completed in accordance with the Company procedures
• Ensure engineers complete the Engineering Handover Log accurately and precisely
• Manage annual leave request and maintain the top plot/resources for staff absences and leave and training type events
• Investigate and respond to customer concerns and complaints

People Management

• Control and discipline of staff; any requirement to take formal measures must be done in conjunction with the Engineering Manager
• Promote an open and just reporting culture for items of safety
• Ensure staff adhere to their contracted working hours and start times
• Inspire, motivate and lead the staff to full satisfy their responsibilities
• Carry out Personal Development Reviews of the L4 Licensed Engineers, and other members of staff as required
• Ensure staff are productive and cost-effective in both busy and quiet periods to ensure customers are accurately charged for work done
• Instill housekeeping guidelines to ensure the cleanliness of the facility

Additional Responsibilities

• Ensure the effective completion of any delegated tasks
• Ensure sufficient staff of the correct trade and certification are present to complete the required work
• Ensure allocated tasks are completed within the allotted time scales
• Ensure tasks are being completed and being staged correctly onto the worksheets and the accurate time recording by staff
• Ensure that the customer’s approval for the work/rectification to be carried out has been obtained and that payment terms are agreed
• Ensure that the customer’s approval for the purchase of spare parts up to the agreed limits has been obtained
• Liaise with other trades and departments within the client or external companies as necessary to initiate or complete the assigned task
• Liaise with customer operators and owners on matters pertaining to maintenance contracts and work place on their respective aircraft
• Maintain a high standard of appearance of their staff, premises, vehicles and equipment
• Notify the Compliance Monitoring Manager, or the nominated representative, of any defect or incident that will affect the continuing airworthiness of the aircraft
• Produce procedures which will ensure effective communication in relaying the desired information i.e. creating work instructions
• Assist in completing internal incident reports i.e. ViSERS and Audit Non Conformities where possible
• Respond effectively to due lists highlighting, test equipment and tool calibration and/or inspection validity expiry dates. In doing so, the Superintendent has responsibility for ensuring that all test equipment and tools in use are within calibration and/or inspection validity
• Take ownership of problems and deal with them in a professional manner
• Assist with the training and development of the staff
• Ensure that a safe and just culture is encouraged in the workplace
• Carry out random audits of the engineers tool boxes and ensure the contents correspond to their inventory list
• Review of pre-loads to ensure that items have been correctly booked and issued to the customer

Certification and Legal Responsibilities

• Be conversant with the Company Procedures and have a good understanding of their content and work within the boundaries of the procedures
• Ensure all work carried out by staff under their supervision complies with the Regulatory Authority and Company Procedures in force at the time of the work carried out
• Ensure all documentation is completed correctly before the work day/shift ends and a detailed hand over of any work in progress is completed
• Ensure that a system to record the shift and maintenance activities by means of a daily log is compiled each day and that all maintenance required is recorded
• Monitor the quality of work accepted by the certifying engineers to ensure that Company quality standards are being adhered to

Health and Safety

• Ensure that the staff are working to the Health and Safety regulations in force at the time of the work being carried out i.e. use of safety goggles, safety harnesses etc.
• Ensure that the highest standards of housekeeping in the hangar and workshops are maintained at all times
• Ensure safety procedures are adhered to for the task in work i.e. safety barriers, warning notices, staff positioned around the area for function checks etc.
• Be instrumental in performing or delegating the undertaking of Risk Assessing of tasks and processes

As always, you must already have the right tot live and work in the U.K

Volantes Technical Recruitment,. on behalf of our long standing Aberdeen based Rotary client have the position of Airworthiness Engineer available.

This role is expected to be between 6 – 9 Months.

The Airworthiness Engineer reports to the Senior Continuing Airworthiness Manager for the client.

This is a very busy department that is fast moving and dynamically responds to the needs of the business. The ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative is paramount to being successful in this challenging role, which will offer you a great development opportunity and job satisfaction covering a diverse range or aircraft, engines and projects working with an international team.

Key Responsibilities

The Airworthiness Engineer is responsible for the following activities:

• Supporting the review and assessment of aircraft maintenance history, modification application, component installations and repairs for the preparation of Airworthiness Renewals and recommendations
• Supporting the analysis and review of airworthiness engineering data, including Airworthiness Directives and Service Bulletins maintenance program completeness.
• The successful and timely management of varied projects as set by the Senior Continuing Airworthiness Manager
• Assist the Senior Continued Airworthiness Manager in the fulfilment of all continuing airworthiness engineering activities as directed
• Actively involved in the improvement, development and embodiment of the Continuing Airworthiness Organisations process, procedures and work instructions to continually achieve the Operators Airworthiness Policies
• Utilising the company MRO system to ensure fleet configuration standards and embodiment of airworthiness tasks. Running and interpreting MRO system reports on aircraft status and configuration and making changes as required to assure the airworthiness of the fleet

Qualifications & Attributes

• A Degree in aviation or relevant engineering discipline or relevant experience in any of the following: Aviation technical services with airworthiness review and data analysis experience; CAMO department activities; Airworthiness records/ aircraft maintenance environment as a technician or maintenance staff; experience within Safety and Quality
• Awareness of some of the operator’s fleet types such as AirbusH175, Sikorsky S92A and Augusta AW139 is desirable
• Awareness of UK and EASA regulations is desirable
• Experience in the use of Aviation ERP systems such as AMOS, SAP, IFS, Helisoft or Rusada is desirable
• Strong IT skills including the use of Word, Excel & PowerPoint
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to present technical subjects to audiences of differing technical abilities
• Team orientated
• Able to demonstrate time management

To be considered for this position you must already have the right to live and work in the U.K

Volantes Technical Recruitment,. on behalf of our long standing Aberdeen based Rotary client have the position of Technical Records Officer available.

This is a 6 month fixed term position.

This position will report to the Airworthiness Records Team Leader and will be responsible for the control, verification and updating of aircraft records within the relevant systems and ensuring compliance with regulatory and company requirements at all time.

Key Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of an Airworthiness Records Officer are

• Control and updating of aircraft records in AMOS
• Verification of aircraft records scanned to AirVault
• Updating and recording of aircraft and component log-cards & logbooks from maintenance work packs
• Timely archiving and storing of aircraft records
• Liaising with Engineering on issues relating to the aircraft assigned to the officer
• Liaising with Airworthiness Records Departments around the whole group.
• Compliance with UK Part M, CAME, Work Instructions and all relevant Safety & Quality requirements to ensure the highest standards of their work
• Provide effective and timely response to queries from the organisation

Qualifications, Skills & Attributes

The ideal candidate will have the following

• Experience working with aircraft records and/ or working knowledge of aviation regulations is preferred
• Technical knowledge of aircraft maintenance programs and configuration management is preferred
• Ability to work on own initiative and within a team environment
• Strong organisational skills
• Be an effective communicator, highly credible with strong interpersonal skills
• Be competent in the use of MS Office systems which are relevant to the position
• Be able to deliver to targets and deadlines within the department
• Be able to work in a busy environment on a daily basis
• AIMS knowledge is preferred
• Working knowledge of AMOS Maintenance Systems is preferred
• Fluent in both spoken and written English language

Candidates must also have the right to live and work in the UK.

Volantes Technical Recruitment, on behalf of our long standing U.K rotary Client have potions available for Passenger Service Officers.

These positions are at their Norwich base, we have both contract as well as permanent roles available.

The Role

• Complete the check in and boarding process for passengers and their baggage, in accordance with CAA regulation and in line with the client and company policies, procedures and requirements.
• To ensure the overall Passenger experience is of an exceptional standard at all times.
• Provide and maintain an excellent standard of customer service.
• Work cohesively as part of the team so as to maximize co-operation leading to the efficiency and effectiveness of the operation.
• Ensure effective communication with other departments and clients as to maximise co-operation leading to the efficiency and effectiveness of the operation.
• Deal with customer complaints/problems, at source where possible, keeping line management informed.
• Ensure all paperwork and administrative duties are completed in a timely manner and relevant information is forwarded where appropriate.
• Ensure all working areas such as Check in desks, are in safe working order and to report any faults.

As always, you must already have the right to live and work in the U.K to be considered for these positions.

Volantes Technical Recruitment. On behalf of our long standing U.K Rotary Client have the permanent role of B2 Engineer available.

This position is for their SAR Base in Sumburgh.

Ideally, you will already be type rated on the S92 however the client will consider Engineers not rated with a view to enrolling you on the next available type course.

The Purpose of the role

• Certification and line Maintenance, modification, repairs and component changes on S92 and any other aircraft required.

Responsibilities

• Aircraft Maintenance
• Certification at B2 level of S92
• Quality & Safety
• Help Maintain / Improve Company Standards
• Training
• Where assigned Mentor Trainees
• Aircraft Ramp
• Marshalling, refuelling, ground handling.

The Successful candidate

• B2 Type Rated on S92 preferable
• 2 Years S92 preferable

You must already have the right to live and work in the U.K in order to be considered for this position.

Please apply for more details.

Volantes Technical Recruitment are seeking a B1.3 A109 for a leading rotary client in the South East

 The engineer will be working on the Leonardo range of helicopters, Monday to Friday within a fantastic facility with opportunity to gain further types.

The successful candidate will ideally have a type rating for the AW109 series. The role will primarily be to support our own very prestigious operator with line maintenance work, and hence supervisory skills are essential to look after our dedicated team of Ramp Staff. Experience of working closely with CAMO, compliance, operations staff and crews would be advantageous.

Excellent Salary and benefits package on offer.

Volantes Technical Recruitment, on behalf of our long-standing business jet client have the permanent role of Production Planner available at their Bournemouth base.

The successful candidate will join a long established and respected forward-thinking company that has a proven pedigree in career development within the organisation.

The Production Planner will deliver the full life cycle planning process of aircraft maintenance input to achieve on time delivery of aircraft events. In order to ensure both customer satisfaction and business needs are met, the role will require working in partnership with the customer and wider internal teams including customer service and engineering on a daily basis, whilst producing accurate customer service reports.

Main Responsibilities:

• Develop and fully use operational processes to ensure efficient operational performance
• Customer service and client contact – point of contact for the customer and the interface between our engineering team and the customer’s on-site representative
• Pre-input planning, work pack generation, check progression and work pack closure process
• Control of completed work order and Certification documents, ensuring that these are closed accurately, billed, and delivered to the customer to the required KPI
• Ensuring that our customers’ requirements are understood and that our engineering response is planned, co-ordinated and executed in an efficient manner
• Liaise/engage with customers daily providing daily status reports on aircraft serviceability
• Liaise/engage with local operational teams to ensure smooth running of the department
• Participate in the quality audit programme and ensuring audit closure actions are developed and implemented
• Reporting of all SMS/Quality issues
• Perform other sections duties related to their position as directed by the line manager
• Provide briefings for engineering departmental management on a regular basis
• Support the Quality & Safety team regarding their duties to ensure all processes and department tasks are fulfilled

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Essential

• Experience of production/maintenance planning, ideally within an engineering environment
• A proven track record of flexibility, teamwork, and adaptability to changing environments
• As an integral and important part of the clients group you should have both strong verbal and written communication skills and be competent using IT
• Desirable
• Knowledge of aircraft maintenance and operations standards and practices
• Experience working within a business aviation environment
• Experience working directly with customer representatives

In addition to a Competitive Salary, our client will offer you:

• Competitive Group Pension Scheme
• Comprehensive Life Assurance *
• Comprehensive Income Protection *
• Comprehensive Travel Insurance *
• Comprehensive Private Healthcare (after successful passing of probation) *
• Free Car Parking
• 2 Paid Volunteering Days each calendar year (subject to line manager approval)
• Investment in Training, Qualifications and Professional Development

Volantes Technical Recruitment, on behalf of our Aberdeen Based Rotary Client have permanent positions  available for Rotary Aircraft Mechanics.

Ideally, you will have experience on 1 or more of the below types however the client will consider engineers with good overall rotary experience

• H175
• AW139
• S92

7 days on 7 days off shift pattern available.

Good opportunities to progress your career through becoming a Licenced Engineer should you be looking to complete your modules going forward.

You must already have the right to live and work in the U.K for your application to be considered

Volantes Technical Recruitment, on behalf of our Glasgow based Rotary client have the permanent role of B1.3 Engineer available

Ideally, you will already hold one of their types however the client will consider Licenced Engineers without type with a view to enrolling you on the next available Type Course

Our client offers a wide range of aviation services to utility and private clients. Services include commercial air transport; external load operations; airborne data acquisition; aerial filming; aerial survey.

The company employs ninety staff distributed between operating bases at Inverness, Cumbernauld and Wolverhampton, while operating and maintaining a fleet of 17 helicopters of several types.

The Role

• Equal Time On/Off Roster (4on/4off-6on/4off-4on/6off) 10-hour shifts- based on 35 hour working week
• Salary Range £40k-£51 depending on qualifications and experience
• Part of a 12-man team Engineering team at this location
• Line, Base and deep maintenance of EC135/AS350/AS355/AS365 Helicopters

If you have a B1.3 Licence, able to live and work in the UK with any need for sponsorship then please do get in touch to discuss in more detail

Volantes Technical Recruitment, on behalf of our Inverness based Rotary client have the permanent role of Compliance Monitoring and Safety Manager available.

Our client offers a wide range of aviation services to utility and private clients. Services include commercial air transport; external load operations; airborne data acquisition; aerial filming; aerial survey.

The company employs ninety staff distributed between operating bases at Inverness, Cumbernauld and Wolverhampton, while operating and maintaining a fleet of 17 helicopters of several types.

CAA AOC, SPO, ATO, Part 145, Part MG/CAMO Approvals are held or in current application.

Comprehensive Safety and Environmental Management Systems are in place. ISO 45001 and 14001 certification is held.

The Role

The CMSM reports directly to the Accountable Manager and will be approved as a Nominated Post Holder by the CAA.

They are responsible for the development, implementation and improvement of the Safety Management & Compliance processes in accordance with the companies CAA approvals

They will assist and support the Chief Pilot ensuring compliance with all applicable Flight Operation regulations, company approvals, permissions and exemptions. They will assist and support the Director of Engineering to ensure compliance with all applicable Continuing Airworthiness and Maintenance regulations.  They will assist the Safety Director in monitoring the effectiveness of the Safety Management System (SMS) and the day to day management of the Safety Team

Ideally, the right person will have a thorough working knowledge of UK aviation regulations, including Parts-ORO, CAT, SPO, ORA, FCL, M, CAMO, 145 and 66. They will be a qualified and experienced aviation Compliance/Quality Manager, with experience in aviation auditing. They will be able to work independently and autonomously within their own department, whilst also appreciating and supporting the wider needs of the company. The right person will also be able to work within a multidisciplinary team across the Company with high levels of accountability.

Key objectives

• Ensure regulatory compliance with applicable CAA rules & regulations relating to the CAA AOC, HRSPO, ATO, Part-MG/CAMO and Part-145 organisational approvals
• To manage an effective independent compliance auditing programme across all approvals and relevant departmental areas to the satisfaction of the Accountable Manager and the CAA
• Day to day management of the SMS, providing safety reports on a periodic basis and ensuring safety related documentation is available and current
• To ensure compliance with all applicable internal standards, policies, procedures and processes
• To provide advice to the Accountable Manager and the rest of the staff concerning compliance with

regulations and to ensure that changes to regulation are communicated throughout the

organisation

• Effective and efficient management of the Safety Team in support of meeting the key objectives of the role and in support of all ISO accreditations

Key responsibilities

• Maintain a current awareness of aviation and safety regulations that are relevant to the clients operations and activities
• Ensure compliance audit findings including root cause analysis and identification of preventative measures are actioned to the satisfaction of the Accountable Manager
• Attend all required CAA audits and inspections and to ensure timely and adequate response to any findings and observation
• Ensure that accurate, complete and readily accessible records documenting the results of audits of the internal oversight programme are maintained.
• Issuing and controlling any required personnel authorisations and maintaining the authorisation control system.
• Investigate Compliance and/or Safety related occurrences or accidents
• Manage, direct and support the Safety Team in their day-today tasks to ensure they effectively support the Safety and Compliance functions within the company, including HSE and ISO requirements.
• Planning and coordination of Compliance & Safety training as required
• Encourage and support the company’s Just Culture and strive for continuous improvement
• To make a positive contribution to all the clients operations.
• To develop and maintain a proactive relationship with the CAA

Experience/Skills:

• Able to demonstrate sufficient experience, knowledge and suitable attitude to be approved by the CAA as the Nominated Post Holder relative to the role
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the aviation industry (military or civil)
• Previously held a Part-66 B1 or B2 licence with helicopter experience (desirable)
• Previous experience of working with an aviation integrated Safety Management System
• To have completed a recognised course of training in aviation Compliance or Quality Management and/or auditing (desirable)
• Thorough understanding of appropriate Regulations, Risk Management, Risk Assessment and Root Cause Analysis
• Ability to analyse information and author concise reports
• Able to prioritise and organise workflow
• Able to educate, persuade, influence and communicate at all levels
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Diplomacy, integrity and discretion
• Presentational/training experience
• Understanding of Human Factors principles
• Understanding of Aviation Safety & HSE Management Systems
• Maintain current knowledge of industry developments and statutory requirements

• At least two-years (less than two-years may be considered for the right applicant) practical auditing experience in an  aviation environment

Other Role Requirements:

• Able to travel to support the role and function of the position
• Flexible attitude to working hours
• This role will include travel to all company bases and occasional travel to client or supplier’s sites

Salary and benefits

Salary is negotiable depending on experience and is based on a 35-hour working week, Monday to Friday routine, with occasional requirements at weekends. Benefits are in accordance with PDG’s standard terms.

If you feel you are suitable and are keen to hear more then please apply in the first instance for a confidential chat.