Station Manager

  • Forward Assist Recruitment
  • Luton, Bedfordshire
  • Oct 12, 2025
Full time

Job Description

Our client is a leading International Line Maintenance Provider, operating a 24-hour comprehensive support for Commercial Aircraft Operators.

Station Manager Luton


Effective Management, development, and motivation of the team

  • To establish a strong work ethic and encourage staff interaction and ownership of issues across all reporting areas and departments.
  • To establish a proactive and professional working culture
  • To establish and develop a strong, informed, tenacious and technically efficient team.
  • To lead by example
  • To establish good working relations with other Station Managers and interfacing departmental managers/supervisors.

Station Manager - Regulatory and Budgetary Requirements

  • To ensure all relevant Station, EASA and CAA regulations are met.
  • To ensure relevant procedures are developed, maintained, and reviewed ensuring compliance with all regulations.
  • To ensure all relevant directions, procedures and directives are controlled and correctly read and recorded.
  • Manage the line Station costs and revenue and ensure all expenditure is recorded and potential cost savings or potential overspends are brought to the attention of the OMM.
  • To ensure all overtime claims are accurate and filed in a timely manner.
  • To ensure all non-conformities are responded to within laid down timelines.

Station Manager - Line Maintenance

  • Maintaining an efficient and effective Station structure to support the Customer Airline fleet.
  • Ensure staffing levels and skills are sufficient to fulfil shift requirements.
  • To ensure a good relationship is established and maintained between all line stations and strive for uniformity in working practices.
  • To manage, understand and strive to improve station KPIs.
  • To have a good over site of selected 3rd party suppliers
  • To ensure all responsible staff are regularly briefed and aware of their responsibilities and updates.
  • To initiate corrective or disciplinary action as required by HR guidelines.
  • To ensure that all responsible staff s qualifications are kept up to date.
  • To ensure all relevant staff are aware of all H & S obligations and responsibilities.

Station Manager - Communication

  • To ensure good communication is established and maintained across their relevant stations and interfacing departments.
  • To ensure meetings are established and maintained with shift supervisors, OMM and Senior Management
  • To encourage open communication amongst all staff using all medias available

Ad-hoc

  • To carry out tasks as detailed by the OMM, LMM and Senior Management

Stores

  • To ensure the line stores is a safe and efficient operation and in compliance with all relevant regulations.
  • To instigate and maintain a rolling audit, security measures, stores procedures and tooling inventory as required.

Station Manager - Additional Requirements:

Qualification & Education:

  • EASA and UKCAA licenses
  • O level or GCSE A-C standard grades

Experience:

  • Communicator and Man Manager
  • Experience of customer-based A/C
  • Ability to be acceptable to the authorities.
  • Qualified Part66 Licence holder

Supervisory and or Managerial experience

  • Engineering background
  • Basic P+L skills

Training & Knowledge:

  • Excel, Word, Power Point
  • SGHA Knowledge
  • Team Leader and Motivator
  • Organisational Skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Self-Starter

You must have the right to work in the UK Proof will be required at the scheduling interview stage.


Company Benefits:

  • 7% employer contribution to pension
  • 3 x Life assurance
  • Private Healthcare
  • Private Dental
  • EAP Programme
  • 25 days annual leave per annum


Forward Assist Recruitment is operating as an employment agency. Forward Assist Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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