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

Work arrangement
No