Armament Technician
Posted 6 days ago by Totaljobs
£315 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
Saudi Arabia, Saud
Summary: The Armament Technician Supervisor role involves overseeing scheduled maintenance on RSAF Typhoon aircraft, ensuring technical quality and airworthiness. The position requires a qualified individual to perform inspections, maintain documentation, and assist with training and quality assurance. The contract duration is 12-18 months, with a start date as soon as possible, although deployment may take up to 5 months. The role is based in Taif, Saudi Arabia, with a daily rate of £315.
Key Responsibilities:
- Carrying out scheduled weapons maintenance on RSAF Typhoon aircraft, including disassembly, cleaning, inspection, and supervision of personnel.
- Maintaining technical quality and airworthiness by ensuring inspection standards meet RSAF/DA approved technical publications.
- Raising independent inspections and conducting vital or mandatory inspections as required.
- Performing daily inspections to maintain the programmed schedule of maintenance.
- Assisting with work environment checks, housekeeping checks, cleanliness checks, and FOD control.
- Completing SMU forms, aircraft forms, records, and maintenance documentation.
- Highlighting areas of inexperience or training requirements to the Team Leader.
- Complying with SMU Quality Systems and RSAF Technical orders and publications.
- Assisting the QA department with investigations from customer enquiries and complaints.
- Completing all mandated training and ensuring training validity dates remain current.
- Completing any other reasonable duties or requests from line management.
Key Skills:
- Completion of a recognized aircraft engineering trade apprenticeship.
- Qualified to NVQ/C&G Level 3 in a relevant technical discipline or suitable equivalent technical qualification.
- Part 66 Licensed (current or lapsed) or suitable equivalent technical License.
- At least 7 years post qualification practical maintenance experience within an operational flying aircraft environment.
- Relevant Type training or Typhoon Q course.
- Experience of working within a Typhoon aircraft maintenance organization.
- Good interpersonal communication and briefing skills.
- English Language Proficiency.
Salary (Rate): £315 per day
City: Taif
Country: Saudi Arabia
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job title: Armament Technician Supervisor
Duration: 12-18 months contract
Location: Taif, Saudi Arabia
Start: ASAP (however it may take up to 5 months to be deployed)
£315 per day LTD
48 hours a week – Sunday to Thursday
Overtime may be available at the normal day rate
Rates include shared accommodation and flights to/from the UK (related to job/visa)
Main Responsibilities
- Carrying out scheduled, Weapons maintenance on RSAF Typhoon aircraft as detailed in the relevant scheduled maintenance. This work includes but is not limited to: disassembly, cleaning, inspection, minor rectification and supervision of personnel.
- Maintain the technical quality and airworthiness of Typhoon aircraft by assuring individual inspection standards meet the requirement of the RSAF/DA approved technical publications, M&CA Mandates and the SMU QMS
- Responsible for raising of Independent inspections, conducting Vital or Mandatory inspections as required inline with second signature responsibilities.
- Perform the daily inspections required to meet and maintain the programmed schedule of maintenance.
- Assist with work environment checks, housekeeping checks, cleanliness checks and FOD control.
- Completes SMU forms, appropriate aircraft forms, records and maintenance documentation.
- Ensures his authorisations are current for the tasks in hand.
- Highlight to his Team Leader areas of his or others inexperience or training requirements needed to complete his or their daily tasks.
- Complies with the requirements of the SMU Quality Systems and RSAF Technical orders and publications.
- Assist the QA department with investigations arising from Customer enquiries and complaints.
- Complete all mandated training, ensuring training validity dates remain current.
- Complete any other reasonable duties or requests that are made by your line management.
Qualifications
- Completion of a recognised aircraft engineering trade apprenticeship.
- Qualified to NVQ/C&G Level 3 in a relevant technical discipline or a technical apprenticeship Or suitable equivalent technical qualification acceptable to M&CA.
- OR Part 66 Licensed (current or lapsed) OR suitable equivalent technical License acceptable to M&CA.
- At least 7 years post qualification practical maintenance experience within operational flying aircraft environment supported by formal recorded workplace applied related training OR 3 years on same aircraft type
- Relevant Type training or Typhoon Q course
- Relevant equipment specific training.
- Experience of working within a Typhoon aircraft maintenance organisation.
- Good interpersonal communication and briefing skills.
- English Language Proficeincy