Take Your Career to New Heights with ASL Aviation Holdings

Join ASL Aviation Holdings, a global aviation group with over 150 aircraft and 4,000 people across 51 nationalities. Whether on the ground or in the air, we offer exciting opportunities to grow, learn, and shape your career.

Who We Are

Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, ASL operates five wholly owned airlines across Europe and Australia, and joint ventures in South Africa, Thailand, and India. Our airlines deliver cargo for the world’s leading parcel integrators and online retailers and provide passenger and charter services worldwide. We also operate ASL Maintenance, a certified EASA Part 145 organisation keeping our fleet of B747s and B737s flying safely.

Why ASL?

• Career Development: Clear growth paths, learning, and advancement opportunities.
• Inclusive Culture: Gender diversity initiatives and fair employment practices across all airlines.
• Global Experience: Work with a diverse, international team in a fast-paced, dynamic industry.
• Job Satisfaction: Be part of a workplace that motivates, inspires, and rewards your contribution.

At ASL, you don’t just start a job, you start a career in aviation, with the support, opportunities, and expertise to help you reach new heights.

ASL Aviation Holdings - where your career takes flight.

To maintain and take good care of the customers’ fleet in accordance with the highest standards, and with focus on safety, reliability and on-time performance.

The Engineer Team Leader supervises aircraft maintenance engineers and mechanics and ensures all technical work meets aviation safety standards and regulatory compliance. They coordinate engineering activities, review maintenance procedures, and provide technical guidance to resolve complex aircraft defects and troubleshooting challenges. The role involves managing workload distribution, monitoring project timelines, and ensuring quality control throughout engineering processes.

Main tasks and responsibilities

Maintenance Operations

• At the start of the shift, receive daily objectives and priorities from the Maintenance Duty Manager. Analyse the work to be done and allocates it as effectively as possible according to the skills available.
• Be hierarchically responsible for the people reporting to him/her during duties. Manage his/her team and ensure that discipline is maintained and addressed when needed.
• Communicate and mobilise the team during 5-15-minute team meetings (work cards, priorities, training, procedures, important messages, etc.).
• Lead and coordinate the daily activities of the assigned maintenance team.
• Allocate tasks according to operational priorities, competencies, authorisations and workload.
• Be responsible for ensuring that daily site tasks are completed on time: he/she reports to the Duty Manager any difficulties encountered in carrying out tasks and justifies any discrepancies between the time allocated and the time actually spent.
• Work on the aircraft himself when his team is working productively.
• Ensure that reports are drawn up in accordance with the procedures in force.
• Ensure maintenance activities are performed safely, efficiently and in accordance with approved maintenance data.
• Monitor progress, identify constraints and escalate issues that may impact aircraft availability, quality or delivery.
• Ensure effective shift handovers and communication of outstanding maintenance activities.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of technical issues within the team's scope of responsibility.

Safety, Compliance & Airworthiness

• Ensure team members comply with EASA Part-145 requirements, company procedures and applicable maintenance standards.
• Ensure personnel work within their qualifications, licences, authorisations and competency levels.
• Verify that maintenance documentation and technical records are correctly completed.
• Promote a strong safety and reporting culture within the team.
• Identify and escalate safety, quality and compliance risks.
• Support audits, investigations and the implementation of corrective actions.

Team Leadership & People Development

• Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance and support to team members.
• Act as a role model for professional conduct, safety awareness and company values.
• Promote teamwork, accountability, discipline and mutual respect.
• Monitor individual and team performance and provide regular feedback.
• Identify training, competency and development needs and communicate them to the appropriate management.
• Support the onboarding and integration of new employees.
• Encourage knowledge sharing, mentoring and development of less experienced engineers.

Planning & Resource Coordination

• Coordinate manpower and task allocation according to maintenance requirements and operational priorities.
• Ensure the team has the necessary tooling, equipment, documentation and materials to perform assigned work.
• Liaise with Planning, Materials, Engineering, Compliance, Safety and other relevant functions to resolve operational constraints.
• Anticipate resource requirements and escalate potential shortages or capacity issues.
• Support effective management of overtime and external resources where applicable.

Technical & Operational Escalation

• Act as the first level of escalation for technical and operational issues within the team.
• Support the resolution of complex maintenance problems and coordinate technical assistance when required.
• Escalate significant defects, safety concerns, delays or compliance issues to the appropriate management.
• Ensure recurring or significant issues are properly reported and followed up.
• Support effective communication with Engineering/Technical Services and other stakeholders.

Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor team performance, productivity, quality and compliance.
• Contribute to maintenance KPIs and performance reporting.
• Identify opportunities to improve maintenance processes, team organisation and resource utilisation.
• Promote standardisation and best practices across maintenance teams.
• Participate in improvement initiatives and support the implementation of corrective and preventive actions.

Internal compliance

• Comply with all relevant divisional and local company related policies, procedures and legal requirements.

Customer Experience

• At anytime and anywhere, perform the activities and display the behaviors that are designed to deliver a distinctive Customer Experience.

Corporate Responsibility / Health & Safety

• Comply with local, national legislation, Health & Safety and Environment regulations in order to maintain a safe working environment for self and all the depot employees.
• Comply with the company's corporate social responsibility, health, safety and environmental standards and responsibilities as identified within ASL management systems.
• Participate in the corporate initiatives.
• Respect the H&S procedures & instructions.
• Act & work safely.
• Maintain a clean office with due regard to Health & Safety matters like ergonomy.
• Make use of the PPE (personal protective equipment) provided by the company.
• Report possible risks to the hierarchy.

Essential Educational and / or Training Qualifications & Certificates

• Qualification as Licensed Engineer - certified B1 and/or B2 by relevant regulatory authority - EASA Part66.
• You have minimum 8 years’ experience as maintenance aeronautics technician or equivalent experience
• You have experience with leadership of a team
• You have a clean certificate of good conduct (required for work on airport sites).
• EU driving license.

Preferred Experience and Knowledge

• Minimum 8 years experience as aircraft technician.
• Knowledge of our aircraft fleet is desired.
• Experience in Line/Base maintenance on the aircraft types is an asset.
• Knowledge / experience with AMOS software.

Necessary Technical / Functional Skills

• Good leadership skills.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to delegate.
• Strong results-orientation combined with customer service mindset.
• Familiarity and experience of using IT systems including the MS Office Suite.
• Good knowledge of English (spoken & written) is a must. French or Dutch will be desired, depending on operational site.
• Ability to work under pressure. Can-do attitude.
• Safety-driven attitude.
• Good corporate and cultural sensitivity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to legally work in the EU.

Behavioural Skills

• Display a positive, open and cooperative behavior in order to facilitate a good relationship inside and outside the department, avoid and help to solve conflicts.
• Be rigorous, precise, well organized, solution orientated, proactive, etc.
• Proactive and solution-oriented attitude.
• Resistant to stress.
• Ability to remain calm and organised when dealing with urgent or AOG requirements.
• Demonstrate the following values/skills: integrity, confidentiality, respect, professionalism, team-spirit and cooperation, positive mindset, can-do attitude, constructive communication, engagement.

As Team Leader:

• Act as a role model for professional conduct, teamwork and company values within the team.
• Make fair and consistent decisions, addressing day-to-day issues and conflicts with professionalism and emotional intelligence.
• Organize and prioritize the team’s daily workload while ensuring discipline, cooperation and adherence to procedures.
• Take ownership of team performance, provide guidance and support to team members, and remain resilient and effective under pressure.

Working Conditions: Full-time permanent contract, shift work 24/7.

Salary range: According to the experience and skills of the candidate - Competitive package with insurances, in line with the aviation industry.

Location: ASL Maintenance - the position is based in Liège (Belgium).