Director Maintenance And Engineering
RwandAir Limited is the flag carrier airline of Rwanda. It operates domestic and international services to East Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East from its main base at Kigali International Airport. Our mission is to provide unsurpassed, safe and reliable services in air transportation, including strategically linking Rwanda with the outside world, while ensuring a fair return on investment. We are looking for interested, qualified and competent candidate to fill the position of:

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Department: Maintenance And Engineering
Section: Maintenance And Engineering
Unit: Maintenance And Engineering
Location: Kigali

2. Job Purpose
The Director Maintenance and Engineering is a nominated post holder acceptable by the Authority and reports to the Deputy CEO/ COO. The Director Maintenance and Engineering is responsible for the management and supervision of all activities in maintenance and engineering including the requirement to ensure that all maintenance is conducted in accordance with the approved maintenance program, regulatory requirements, RwandAir Standards and that maintenance is conducted in accordance with the conditions and restrictions of the AOC. Through the Maintenance Control Manual and other maintenance and engineering manuals, the Director Maintenance and Engineering is responsible for the formulation of policies, processes and procedures for the conduct of aircraft maintenance and ensuring that all aircraft remain airworthy with all emergency equipment serviceable.
The Director Maintenance and Engineering shall provide strategic direction and ensure the existence for facilities, equipment and all resources necessary for delivering quality and safety products. The Director Maintenance and Engineering shall have direct access to the Accountable Manager for any issues relating to Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering.

3. Key Responsibilities
• Developing, managing, monitoring and supervising the organization’s Maintenance and Engineering Management System to meet regulatory and organizational requirements;
• Planning and budgeting of all maintenance and engineering activities as a way of ensuring that adequate resources are available for the intended tasks;
• Monitoring and controlling of subcontracting service providers to ensure they provide services in accordance with the terms and conditions in the contract document or Service Level Agreements;
• Ensuring maintenance of equipment and tools used in support of maintenance operations and providing a schedule for proactivity maintenance program;
• Training and coordinating for training of personnel through formal classroom, on-job training, mentoring and other personnel development exercises to meet current and future organizational needs;
• Providing facilities, equipment and technical data that is required for the conduct of maintenance and engineering activities;
• Ensuring that maintenance and engineering activities are conducted in accordance with regulatory requirements, rules, laws of areas where operations are conducted, RwandAir standards and that maintenance and engineering activities are conducted in accordance with the conditions and restrictions of the AOC;
• Liaising with Original Equipment Manufacturers(OEM), subcontractors, suppliers and any other external entities on issues relating to maintenance and engineering;
• Coordinating maintenance, planning and materials section and ensuring exchange of operationally relevant information with other departments;
• Monitoring of the airworthiness of aircraft to ensure ongoing conformity with all regulatory requirements, organization standards and procedures;
• Ensuring effective and efficient maintenance of aircraft and equipment in accordance with the approved technical data;
• Developing policies, processes and procedures in maintenance and engineering contained in the engineering manuals and ensuring that they are regularly updated to remain current;
• Correcting non-conformities raised during internal or external audits;
• Conducting safety risk assessment and ensuring that decisions relating to risk tolerability are made by appropriately qualified and authorized personnel;
• Coordinating aircraft delivery and redelivery for lease and purchases;
• Participate in management review and providing feedback to executive management on areas requiring improvement;
• Promoting and supporting the implementation of the safety management system within the department;

4. Job Requirements
Education and Experience
• Graduate degree in engineering coupled with aircraft maintenance and engineering management background and relevant experience in continued airworthiness management;
• Aircraft maintenance Engineers License with appropriate airframe and power plant or Avionics ratings or Aeronautical Engineering degree;
• At least 10 years’ experience in aviation Maintenance senior management;
• Familiar with aircraft types operated by the RwandAir;
• At least 5 years’ previous experience in aircraft maintenance and engineering;
• Computer literate;
• Skills in computerized maintenance software;
• Shall be accepted/approved by the Authority as part of AOC conditions

Submission Procedure
• An application letter addressed to Director-Human Resources;
• Recent Curriculum Vitae;
• Notarized Relevant certificates;
• Copy of current passport;
• Three referees
The deadline for submitting application documents is April 18 2022 at 4pm local time
Please send your application on recruitment@rwandair.com
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.