Lead Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Airframe Workscope Analysis

• Develop and review aircraft maintenance workscopes for major maintenance events.
• Analyze historical maintenance workscopes and identify recurring and avoidable tasks.
• Review maintenance task requirements, intervals, thresholds, and escalation opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for workscope optimization and maintenance cost reduction.
• Assess the impact of maintenance findings on aircraft downtime and future maintenance requirements.
• Evaluate opportunities to combine, defer, or optimize maintenance tasks within approved regulatory and maintenance-program requirements.

Aircraft Maintenance Planning

• Analyze aircraft maintenance schedules and upcoming major maintenance events.
• Review A, C and other scheduled maintenance requirements.
• Analyze structural inspections, landing gear, flight controls, fuel systems, ATA chapters and other major airframe maintenance requirements.
• Support long-term maintenance forecasting and aircraft downtime planning.
• Evaluate maintenance capacity and turnaround-time requirements.

Fleet Lifecycle Optimization

• Analyze aircraft age, Flight Hours (FH), Flight Cycles (FC), utilization and maintenance history.
• Assess aircraft remaining useful life and maintenance burden.
• Identify aircraft suitable for continued operation, life extension, storage, lease return, retirement or part-out.
• Develop aircraft lifecycle optimization recommendations.
• Compare maintenance investment requirements against remaining aircraft economic life.

Reliability & Performance Analysis

• Analyze aircraft reliability trends and repetitive defects.
• Review technical delays, cancellations, AOG events and aircraft-related operational disruptions.
• Identify reliability improvement opportunities.
• Analyze maintenance cost trends and cost drivers.
• Develop aircraft health and maintenance performance indicators.

Workscope Cost Optimization

• Analyze maintenance event cost drivers.
• Evaluate labor, material, inspection and repair requirements.
• Identify opportunities for cost avoidance and maintenance efficiency.
• Support Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for aircraft.
• Develop business cases for major maintenance and lifecycle decisions.

Data Analytics & Reporting

• Analyze large aircraft maintenance and utilization datasets.
• Develop fleet health dashboards and maintenance forecasting models.
• Perform trend, variance, scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Translate technical data into actionable management recommendations.
• Prepare technical reports and executive presentations.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with Engineering, CAMO, Maintenance, Planning, Reliability, Supply Chain, Finance and Operations teams.
• Work with MRO providers and aircraft OEMs where required.
• Participate in technical workshops and fleet review meetings.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Required Experience

• 8–15+ years of aviation experience, preferably in aircraft engineering, technical services, maintenance planning, CAMO, MRO or fleet management.
• Strong experience in airframe maintenance workscope development and optimization.
• Experience with commercial aircraft maintenance programs.
• Experience analyzing aircraft maintenance records and utilization data.
• Strong understanding of aircraft lifecycle and maintenance cost drivers.
• Experience with major maintenance events and aircraft downtime planning.

Preferred Aircraft Experience

Experience with one or more of:

• Airbus A320 Family
• Airbus A330/A340
• Airbus A350
• Boeing 737 NG/MAX
• Boeing 747/757/767
• Boeing 777
• Boeing 787
• Regional aircraft

Technical Expertise

Strong knowledge of:

• Aircraft Maintenance Programs
• Maintenance Planning Documents (MPD)
• Maintenance Review Board (MRB) requirements
• MSG-3 methodology
• Airworthiness Directives (AD)
• Service Bulletins (SB)
• Structural inspections
• Corrosion prevention and control
• Landing gear maintenance
• Flight control systems
• Fuel systems
• ATA chapter structure
• Aircraft reliability programs
• Aircraft technical records
• Maintenance task intervals and escalation
• Heavy maintenance / base maintenance
• Aircraft lease return requirements

Data & Analytical Skills

Mandatory

• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Data analysis and visualization
• Maintenance forecasting
• Trend analysis
• Cost analysis
• Scenario analysis

Preferred

• Power BI
• SQL
• Python
• Tableau
• Statistical analysis
• Optimization modeling
• Predictive maintenance analytics

Aviation Systems Experience

Experience with one or more:

• AMOS
• TRAX
• Ramco Aviation
• Maintenix
• Rusada ENVISION
• SAP
• Oracle
• CAMP
• Airbus Skywise

Preferred Certifications

• Aircraft Maintenance License – DGCA / EASA Part-66
• PMP
• Lean Six Sigma
• Reliability Engineering Certification
• IATA Aviation Maintenance / Engineering courses

Experience Level: 8-15 Years

Roles and Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Aircraft Airframe Workscope & Fleet Optimization Expert with strong hands-on experience in aircraft maintenance planning, airframe workscope development, fleet lifecycle management, and maintenance optimization. The ideal candidate will have the ability to analyze aircraft maintenance data, utilization, workscopes, structural requirements, maintenance intervals, reliability trends, and aircraft lifecycle information to identify opportunities for improving fleet availability, optimizing maintenance costs, and maximizing aircraft utilization.