- Immediate access to world class staff travel benefits for yourself and your travel companions
- Collingwood Head Office Location
- 4 on, 4 off Day Shift
Love travel and passionate about all things aviation? You’re in the right place. At Jetstar, you get to takeoff at work, and in life.
As a team, we’re lucky we get to do both for a living - and we want you to be part of where we go next. Helping our teammates soar is what we’re all about. And with a new fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft, plus new routes being added, the sky’s the limit.
Jetstar Engineering: A team that takes off together
We rely on our engineers to deliver our superior safety standards, up to the second. They’re the trouble-shooters, glitch-fixers and tech-experts who make sure we take to the sky safely.
As part of our investment in our future, we launched our Melbourne Engineering Precinct as the main maintenance hub of our network and have now welcomed over ten new A321 NEO’s into our fleet. Our Engineering Operations team supports not only the maintenance of Jetstar aircraft, but also that of Qantas Group A320, and A321 Freighter aircraft and Jetstar Branded Airlines (JBA’s) in Singapore and Japan.
Ready for your next adventure?
We are on the hunt for an experienced aviation professional to takeoff in this newly created opportunity as Manager Engineering Operations. In this role, your primary function will be to manage engineering operations in the day-of-ops environment to support the successful delivery of Jetstar’s flying schedule.
Reporting to our Senior Manager Engineering Operations, you will primarily be responsible for:
- Manage Engineering operations in the day-of-ops environment with a key focus on schedule integrity, disruption management
- Acting as the key Engineering management representative providing dynamic leadership within the MOC and the Jetstar Operations Control Centre (JOCC).
- Management of planned and unplanned maintenance that balances the commercial, customer and operational impacts associated with disruption
- Acting as the operational Engineering point of contact and as an escalation point for activities within Engineering
- Providing operational leadership and management to those within the Maintenance Operations Centre (MOC).
- Managing a team responsible for ensuring effective communication flow between those within and external to Engineering
We are on the hunt for the following experience:
- Proven experience in an aviation operations or engineering environment
- Passion and experience in managing, coaching and mentoring a team of direct reports
- Aviation industry experience essential
- A desire for continuous improvement and are passionate about aviation
- Somebody who can demonstrate a thick skin in dealing with difficult situations whilst thriving in a fast-paced, constantly changing, operational environment
- Strength in problem solving and decision making, including the ability to consider the operation, customer, cost, people and engineering impacts when proposing solutions
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Solid internal and external stakeholder management skills
What’s in it for you
- Our team members enjoy access to unlimited heavily discounted fares to destinations all over the world - not only for team members, but for their favourite travel companions too. Our staff travel benefit includes discounts on airfares, accommodation, car hire and travel insurance for both domestic and international travel. Discounts can be used within the Jetstar Group airlines, Qantas and other partner airlines.
- Access to a range of salary packaging and leave benefits.
- As a member of the Qantas Group, you will have the opportunity to build a career across multiple functions, locations and airlines.
- Structured programs and resources to support your health and wellbeing and development.
- Talk to us about how we can make this role work flexibly for you such that you can achieve your potential.
Your life at Jetstar is unlike any other
There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar:
For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us. If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.
We’re Jetstar. Let’s takeoff together.
We're Jetstar
You may know us for famously low fares, but did you know that we’ve flown more than 400 million passengers since we launched in Australia in 2004? We take around 3,000 flights to the sky each week - and we're not just an Australian airline. The Jetstar Group includes Jetstar Asia and Jetstar Japan, making us one of the largest low-cost airlines in the region. Our fleet of more than 115 aircraft, includes the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8's.
Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.
Our people are the real jet stars.
We're Jetstar
You may know us for famously low fares, but did you know that we’ve flown more than 400 million passengers since we launched in Australia in 2004? We take around 3,000 flights to the sky each week - and we're not just an Australian airline. The Jetstar Group includes Jetstar Asia and Jetstar Japan, making us one of the largest low-cost airlines in the region. Our fleet of more than 115 aircraft, includes the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8's.
Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.
Our people are the real jet stars.
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