Overview

Job Title: Technical Services Engineer

Location: Stansted - Onsite

Employment Type: Permanent

Salary/Rate: Annual Salary

Role Conditions

• Shift Pattern: 4 on / 4 off (7am - 7pm)
• Benefits: 22 days annual leave including bank holidays rising to 23 days after 5 years and 24 days after 10 years of service, Salary Exchange Pension Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Life Assurance, Employee Cash Plan, Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Schemes, Professional Growth and Development, state-of-the-art equipment and technology
• Career Development: Ongoing Training and Certification Programmes

About the Role

On behalf of our client, a leading organisation in the aviation industry, we are currently recruiting for a Technical Services Engineer to support their engineering activities. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic environment with a strong focus on safety, compliance, and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage complex aircraft maintenance and modification projects to protect the critical path.
• Professionally communicate with customers to plan maintenance inputs, ensuring work scope is received, understood, and translatable into a tangible work package.
• Produce work packages that meet customer requirements, ensuring access, spares, tooling, manpower, and third-party services are identified, ordered, and available before scheduled downtime.
• Communicate with approved third-party vendors to arrange services, ensuring their attendance and time estimates align with critical path requirements.
• Work with Part-21 Design Organisations to engineer and support customer modification requests, ensuring documentation meets EASA/Foreign NAA requirements for implementation under company approvals.
• Prepare and chair internal pre-input review meetings with Commercial, Engineering, and Logistics departments, as well as pre-input review meetings with customers to discuss defects and specific requirements.
• Coordinate the acceptance of aircraft into maintenance.
• Proactively identify and resolve critical path issues that could affect the aircraft input schedule.
• Provide daily project progress updates to customers during aircraft maintenance.
• Instruct the shipping agent on aircraft import and export procedures for base maintenance projects.
• Review and complete the aircraft library, including Technical Log and Deferral Log, during input and upon release to service.
• Assist Document Control with reviewing completed paperwork and resolving any arising issues.
• Generate documentation and support certifying staff through the return to service stage of aircraft maintenance input.

Candidate Requirements

• Essential:
• Demonstrable experience in project management within an engineering environment.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in aviation maintenance, operations, CAMO, or manufacturing.
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Experience using Wings ERP or equivalent.
• Flexible with time.
• Desirable:
• Preferred technical university degree or equivalent.

Why Work with JMC Aviation?

At JMC Aviation, we specialise in aviation recruitment across [engineering services and training to airlines, MROs and OEMs, leasing and asset management companies, and component overhaul organisations]. With deep industry knowledge and a global network, we match the right talent to the right roles — contract or permanent.

• Industry-leading compliance support
• Fast onboarding and documentation assistance
• Dedicated recruitment consultant
• Placements across the globe
• Extensive experience and knowledge of the aviation sector

Compliance & Equal Opportunities

JMC Aviation is committed to equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace. All applicants will be considered based on merit, qualification, and business need, regardless of age, gender, nationality, or background. We operate in full compliance with global aviation recruitment regulations.

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