Capacity Manager

TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business.  Within TUI Group, TUI Airline combines all airline activities.  Engineering & Maintenance is a truly international multi-disciplinary team, with a common mission.  We combine highly specialised technical expertise with a blend of agility, problem-solving, innovation and pragmatism, to ensure we continue to deliver on our ambition to become stronger, smarter, and faster in the most cost efficient and sustainable way. 

As Hangar 61 Capacity Manager, your focus will be to manage hangar resources, their planning during and outside the checks, as well as their qualifications, training needs and development. You will need to be well versed in project management and resource management and can encourage cooperative working relationships with good communication skills. You will be responsible for the 5-year staffing plan for the Base Maintenance activity and be knowledgeable in the hiring, onboarding and training processes. 

In this role, you’ll report to the Base Maintenance Manager.

ABOUT OUR OFFER

• Personal benefits: Attractive remuneration, discretionary bonus schemes, generous travel benefits, extensive health & well-being support, and more.

• Flexible working: Work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with a dynamic working environment.

• A career to shape: Access the TUI Learning Hub to level-up and reach your ambitions.

• Broaden your network: We champion intercultural collaboration and provide opportunities to work on global projects and teams

• Community: Get involved with incredible local charity and sustainability initiatives like the TUI Care Foundation.

ABOUT THE JOB

As Hangar 61 Capacity Manager, you’ll be responsible for:

• Ensuring the facility has the manpower capacity to meet the Base Maintenance plan. Focus on balancing employee workload.

• Ensuring that the hangar resource and overall aircraft input flow have the necessary balance.

• Provide project management/chief engineering with collaborative support for ongoing and upcoming projects.

• Adapt plans and re allocate resources to increase efficiency or reforecast due to any unforeseen circumstance.

• Utilise a data driven approach to create decisions objectively. Interacting with modern project management software to track complex interdependencies in a clear, concise way.

• Interfacing with other parts of the business to ensure efficient collaboration in both directions depending on the needs of either activity

• Supporting with the administration of internal resources: leave, attendance, absences and roles

• Supporting the administration of temporary staff, contractors, trainees and subcontractors; ensuring their smooth integration and performance in line with published procedures, against strict requirements of the workload

• Manage the skills and optimise the versatility of each engineer to increase productivity and flexibility. Establish a training schedule and matrix to be followed by staff to maintain and develop individual skills within.

• Leading by example, encourage, support and participate to continuous improvement activities

• Monitor the staff and put in place succession planning within the workforce in line with projected organisational design headcount, considering demographics

• Responsible, alongside hangar management, to maintain overview of time and attendance system to ensure all staff clocking, overtime, holidays, sickness and training are corrected daily through H61 administration.

• Adopt required wellbeing values and support resource as required in this area alongside direct line management

• Responsible to deliver an effective apprenticeship training program in line with projected organisational Design

• Hold responsibility for internal Safety and compliance reporting platform and understand the relationship to said platform towards wider resource.  

ABOUT YOU

• Experience within resource management, ideally within Aviation.  
• Analytical and people management skills essential.
• Mindset to manage multiple projects simultaneously 
• Degree in business management, Economics, HR, Management, Organisational development preferred but not essential.
• Understanding of Aviation check management within a base environment
• Knowledge of Boeing 737NG/B737 Max and B787. Preferred but not essential.  
• Understanding of engineering finance.
• Able to build & grow internal and external customer relationships.
• Knowledge of EASA part-145/Part M regulations.
• Excellent facilitator/communicator both verbally and written.
• Excellent people person who can show empathy when needed.   
• Computer literate to a high standard including modern resource/project management software tools, word, excel, AMOS and SAP
• Flexible in working hours to meet the demands of the organisation
• Safeguarding Qualification as required to support apprenticeship program. 
• Role requires strong business English, both spoken and written, and may involve some international travel

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From a workplace to a place to belong. At TUI we embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, encouraging everyone to come as you are, because together, our potential is limitless.

We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities and impairments so if you require any support, please do let us know.

SECURITY CLEARANCE STATEMENT

At TUI, safety is our top priority. We conduct thorough background checks on all employees who join our Airline.
Rest assured; we’ll guide you on the necessary information you need to provide at each stage. 

Please note that if you are applying for a role in the UK, you must ensure you can provide a full 5 years referencing, plus a criminal record check for all countries you’ve resided in for more than 6 months in the past 5 years.