✈️ We're Hiring: Airworthiness Manager
📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time
💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are an aviation-focused organization committed to maintaining the highest standards of airworthiness, safety, reliability, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. Our distributed teams collaborate across Engineering, Maintenance, Flight Operations, Quality, Safety, Continuing Airworthiness, Technical Services, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, and Executive Leadership to ensure aircraft and aviation systems remain safe, compliant, and operational throughout their lifecycle.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Airworthiness Manager to lead continuing airworthiness management, regulatory compliance, aircraft technical oversight, maintenance programme governance, reliability monitoring, technical records, airworthiness reviews, and safety-critical engineering activities. The ideal candidate will ensure aircraft and aviation assets remain compliant with applicable airworthiness requirements while supporting safe, efficient, and reliable operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement airworthiness strategies, policies, procedures, standards, and governance frameworks aligned with organizational objectives and applicable aviation regulations.
- Lead continuing airworthiness management activities across aircraft, engines, components, avionics, systems, and associated aviation assets.
- Collaborate with Aircraft Engineering, Maintenance, Flight Operations, Quality Assurance, Safety, Technical Services, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturers, Maintenance Organizations, and Executive Leadership.
- Ensure aircraft remain compliant with applicable type-certification requirements, airworthiness directives, mandatory continuing airworthiness information, service bulletins, maintenance requirements, and approved technical documentation.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) including aircraft availability, technical delays, deferred defects, maintenance compliance, reliability, airworthiness findings, overdue tasks, component performance, audit performance, and corrective-action closure.
- Manage aircraft maintenance programmes, reliability programmes, maintenance planning, technical instructions, engineering orders, modification programmes, inspection requirements, and continuing-airworthiness tasks.
- Review and approve technical assessments, maintenance requirements, engineering recommendations, defect investigations, component evaluations, and aircraft configuration changes within applicable authorization and organizational procedures.
- Monitor aircraft technical status, deferred defects, repetitive defects, maintenance findings, component removals, reliability trends, and emerging safety or airworthiness risks.
- Lead reliability analysis and develop corrective-action strategies for recurring technical issues, component failures, system anomalies, and fleet performance trends.
- Coordinate with aircraft and component manufacturers, approved maintenance organizations, design organizations, lessors, suppliers, and aviation authorities on technical and airworthiness matters.
- Manage aircraft records, technical logs, maintenance records, modification records, life-limited component records, configuration data, certificates, and airworthiness documentation.
- Oversee airworthiness review processes, aircraft status reviews, records audits, compliance assessments, and readiness activities for certificates and regulatory approvals.
- Support aircraft acquisition, lease transition, induction, return, transfer, modification, reconfiguration, and disposal programmes by assessing technical condition, records, configuration, compliance, and airworthiness status.
- Conduct airworthiness risk assessments covering aircraft configuration, maintenance status, component life, technical records, regulatory changes, operational exposure, supply constraints, and safety-critical systems.
- Ensure effective management of mandatory inspections, life-limited parts, time-controlled components, structural requirements, corrosion programmes, reliability requirements, and other critical continuing-airworthiness controls.
- Coordinate technical responses to aviation authority findings, audits, inspections, investigations, safety occurrences, technical events, and regulatory information requests.
- Ensure compliance with applicable UAE aviation requirements and relevant international frameworks, including applicable requirements from GCAA, EASA, FAA, ICAO, and approved maintenance and design organizations.
- Maintain robust configuration-management and change-control processes to ensure aircraft configuration and technical records remain accurate, traceable, and compliant.
- Lead supplier and maintenance-provider performance reviews covering technical quality, turnaround time, regulatory compliance, documentation, reliability, safety, and service-level performance.
- Support maintenance planning and aircraft availability by optimizing maintenance schedules, component replacement strategies, material requirements, engineering resources, and technical priorities.
- Drive digital transformation through artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted predictive maintenance, aircraft-health monitoring, reliability analytics, automated compliance tracking, digital technical records, and predictive airworthiness risk assessment.
- Utilize aviation maintenance and airworthiness platforms, aircraft health-monitoring systems, MRO software, ERP systems, electronic technical-log platforms, document-management systems, Microsoft 365, Power BI, Tableau, reliability databases, and regulatory-information systems.
- Manage airworthiness budgets, engineering consultants, technical service providers, regulatory support, specialist inspections, aircraft records, reliability programmes, and airworthiness technology initiatives.
- Prepare executive airworthiness reports, fleet reliability dashboards, compliance assessments, technical risk registers, aircraft status reports, audit summaries, maintenance-performance reviews, and strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
- Lead, mentor, and develop airworthiness engineers, technical specialists, continuing-airworthiness personnel, reliability analysts, technical records teams, and multidisciplinary aviation professionals while fostering a culture of safety, regulatory compliance, technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Aviation Maintenance, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Master's degree in Aviation Management, Aerospace Engineering, Aviation Safety, Engineering Management, or a related discipline is highly advantageous.
- Appropriate aviation maintenance, engineering, or airworthiness authorization and professional certification recognized by the applicable aviation authority is highly advantageous.
- Experience or qualifications aligned with applicable GCAA, EASA Part-CAMO, Part-145, FAA, ICAO, or equivalent airworthiness frameworks are preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in airworthiness, continuing airworthiness management, aircraft engineering, maintenance engineering, technical services, reliability, or related aviation roles.
- At least 2 years of experience managing airworthiness programmes, aircraft technical teams, continuing-airworthiness functions, fleet reliability programmes, or complex aviation compliance initiatives preferred.
- Strong understanding of aircraft airworthiness, continuing airworthiness management, aircraft maintenance programmes, reliability engineering, aircraft systems, technical records, configuration management, regulatory compliance, and aviation safety.
- Strong technical leadership, analytical, regulatory, communication, stakeholder management, project management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong understanding of aviation safety management, human factors, risk assessment, quality assurance, occurrence reporting, technical investigations, and corrective-action management.
- Ability to interpret complex airworthiness requirements and translate them into effective maintenance controls, compliance programmes, technical decisions, and operational strategies.
- Ability to manage multiple airworthiness priorities while balancing safety, regulatory compliance, aircraft availability, maintenance requirements, technical risk, cost, operational schedules, and stakeholder expectations.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote environment with distributed engineering, maintenance, flight operations, safety, quality, technical services, supply-chain, regulatory, and executive teams, with regular travel for aircraft inspections, maintenance facilities, authority meetings, audits, technical reviews, aircraft transitions, and operational assessments as required.
What We Offer
- Fully remote work arrangement with flexible collaboration across global aviation engineering, maintenance, safety, quality, technical services, regulatory, supply-chain, and executive teams.
- Competitive compensation package with performance-based incentives.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
- Professional development and airworthiness leadership growth opportunities.
- Exposure to predictive maintenance, aircraft health monitoring, digital technical records, AI-powered reliability analytics, automated compliance systems, and next-generation aviation technologies.
- Collaborative culture focused on aviation safety, regulatory excellence, technical integrity, reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Opportunity to protect aircraft safety and operational readiness by leading world-class continuing-airworthiness, reliability, compliance, and technical-governance programmes.