Job Description:

 Job Description: 

Job title : Powerplant & APU 

Work location : Bangalore 

Accountabilities: 

The Jobholder is responsible for the oversight, delivery and performance of the Powerplant and APU activities provided across all the contracts under Flight Hours Services (FHS) scope managed by the Central Plateau. 

In this function, the job holder will be responsible for maintaining the fleet under his supervision to the highest Operational Reliability, in line with applicable airworthiness requirements such as EASA & National Aviation Authority (NAA) and in accordance with Airbus Technical Standards and FHS Financial interests. 

The Power Plant /APU engineering team is responsible for the following activities: 

● Powerplant/APU mid and long term engineering support 

● Technical publications and embodiment policy management 

● Components and systems reliability analysis and monitoring 

In addition the job holder shall 

● Manage the technical interface with customer facing team and liaise with the FHS operational holder administrating the contractual set-up from Toulouse HQ. 

● Ensure Internal Customer satisfaction acting on relationship, collaboration, responsiveness and performance, 

● Achieve compliance with Regulation, Airworthiness and Quality standards, 

● Propose additional values to support Airbus Services (Digital Tool, Methodology, MRO Standards....) 

Dimensions: 

There is no team or budget responsibility linked to this position. 

Main activities: 

The Powerplant/APU engineer with his/her peers, as a team, shall endorse the key following activities: Powerplant and APU Engineering work scope: 

● Ensure engineering technical follow-up and defect/delay analysis in collaboration with Toulouse (FHS Headquarter), local teams. 

● Develop close relationship with the local teams, align and collaborate on processes and deliverables expected

● Produce and share engineering analysis, action plan and technical follow-up within a regular time frame agreed with the local team 

● Ensure appropriate support for technical issues resolution within mid and long term timeframe and ad hoc short term support for critical event management 

● Develop close relationship with FHS HQ and their stakeholders in order to escalate critical issues to be further investigated with Customer Support and Airbus Programs 

● Contribute to the functional organization objectives and be motor in ensuring knowledge, process and methods are capitalized 

● Ensure regular reporting on his/her different scopes of activity, for achievement, performance and improvement demonstration, 

● Ensure Technical support, if required, with Local Aviation Authorities, EASA and FAA, to meet local regulations and expectations

● Contribute to the development and implementation of industrialized processes, methods and tools to improve efficiency and qualitatively the activities performed, 

● Provide engineering assistance to the region on-site engineering team on engine/APU related defect issues when required. 

● Provide technical expertise to validate or trigger engine or APU replacement (oil consumption etc)

● Prepare engine or APU accessories work scope for engine shop visit. This includes a list of SB/VSB to be incorporated for an engine during shop visit, and maintenance tasks based on the EMMP. 

● Focal point for supporting engine or APU shop activities and technical related topics for repair shop

● Following an Engine or APU shop visit, validate that proposed work scope requested has been performed and analyze Shop finding Reports (SFR) for corrective action performed. 

● Support the yearly/bi-yearly shop performance review with FHS Repair department (technical support) and FHS engineering 

● Support validation of APU and Engine LRU standard exchanges proposed by shop (with FHS Repair department) 

● Validate technical work scope with shop if deviating from the baseline, and provide sound recommendations in order to optimize the overall cost of the repair vs the expected technical conditions, 

● Focal point for technical questions related to APU and Engine delease support (Work Scope, APU reliability trend etc), participate in nomination, collection of all shop reports and ensure completeness of shop records including back to birth required. 

● Provide follow up on health condition of engine and APU based on alerts received from OEM via Engine and APU health monitoring 

● Perform regular reliability updates on APU and Engine LRU, investigate reliability issues and coordinate with FHS engineering, OEM. 

● Issue monthly APU and Engines reports on health status, removals 

● Feedback to FHS engineering with baseline adjustment by analysis or from shop advise and participate to the yearly revision of the baseline 

● Manage database administration during engine or APU induction into the fleet 

Reliability: 

● Master the reliability process and tools and leverage on the reliability team triggers to identify arising low performance topics and properly address the recovery plan with FHS HQ. 

● Manage reliability technical dossier and contact relevant stakeholders as necessary for technical alignment. 

● Analyze reasons for removal on identified components (in volume, vs Guaranteed Mean Time Between Unscheduled Removal (GMTBUR), vs worldwide fleet Mean Time Between Unscheduled Removal (MTBUR), No Fault Found (NFF) rate) 

● Perform technical investigation (using data from aircraft maintenance logs, Maintenance Information System (MIS), aircraft service records and shop finding reports) to determine possible root cause and failure trends as necessary with objective to define/implement available mitigation/solution or drive definition of technical fix 

● Investigate reliability issues on APU & APU LRU’s and coordinate the investigation with FHS Engineering, Airbus Support & OEM. Perform regular reliability updates. 

Technical publications: 

● Manage and control AD and any mandatory documents to ensure compliance with with Regulation, Airworthiness and Quality standards 

● Master the technical publication process and the documentations such as VSB, SB, SIL, TFU, AOT and OIT issued at aircraft/component level and provide recommendation 

● Support mods meetings and FHS SB Scan process preparation 

● Liaise with the customer facing team to assist driving the relevant embodiment strategy which would maximize customer and FHS benefit

Outputs: 

● Advise engineering actions to enable achievement of FHS performance indicators,

● Airworthiness Directives Control and Technical Publications and recommendations

● Reliability Dossier 

● Engine/APU work scope for shop visit 

● Monthly removal forecast based 

● APU MTBUR vs GMTBUR figures 

● Cost reduction initiatives and APU repair baseline 

Required Skills: 

● Minimum degree holder in Aerospace Engineering or equivalent 

● Preferred are those potentials with relevant experience in (Airline / MRO), mainly in the Technical Services roles 

● Good knowledge of Continued Airworthiness Management 

● (License / Type training) on commercial transport category aircraft, preferably on any Airbus product such as (A320 / A350 / A330) 

● Good Knowledge of Engine/APU health monitoring tools. 

● Superior organizational skills, flexibility managing multiple priorities, adaptability to changing deadlines and attention to detail, 

● Excellent team player with good communication and interpersonal skills 

Those candidates with relevant experience ranges between (5 - 10) years are suitable for this requirement. 

The (designation / title) of this position would vary with respect to the relevant experience of the respective candidate. 

Organisation structure: 

The Jobholder reports operationally to the Powerplant and APU Manager of the Central Plateau. 

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