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Mechanical Junior Supervisor – Typhoon

Location: Qatar
Role: Mechanical Junior Supervisor
Aircraft: Eurofighter Typhoon
Contract Opportunity

Take the Next Step in Your Typhoon Career

Morson Edge is recruiting an experienced Mechanical Junior Supervisor to support a major Eurofighter Typhoon maintenance programme in Qatar.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Typhoon technician ready to take the next step into a supervisory position, providing technical leadership and guidance within a highly skilled aircraft maintenance environment.

You'll undertake detailed maintenance and inspection activities on the Typhoon and its components, while supervising a team to ensure work is completed safely, correctly and to programme.

Previous Typhoon experience is essential.

The Role

As a Mechanical Junior Supervisor, you'll combine hands-on aircraft maintenance with team leadership and technical oversight.

You'll be responsible for ensuring maintenance activities are completed in accordance with approved technical information, work packages, regulatory requirements and established procedures.

The role includes aircraft and component maintenance, fault diagnosis, inspections, repairs, modifications, servicing and functional testing, alongside supervising and developing less experienced personnel.

Key Responsibilities

Undertake detailed maintenance, inspection and supervision activities on Typhoon aircraft and components

Supervise teams carrying out maintenance tasks and ensure work is completed to schedule

Ensure maintenance is performed using the correct approved technical information

Diagnose and resolve aircraft system and component faults

Undertake aircraft ground handling and flight servicing activities as required

Support aircraft role changes, component removals, inspections, repairs and modifications

Carry out fault rectification, component replacement and functional/system testing

Raise ad-hoc work cards for faults identified during maintenance

Ensure personnel are suitably competent and authorised for allocated tasks

Maintain personal task authorisations and currency/recency records

Carry out independent and vital inspections where authorised

Provide technical guidance and leadership to team members

Support the development of less experienced engineers through on-the-job development and formal assessment processes

Maintain tooling and test equipment controls

Ensure maintenance activities remain compliant with relevant procedures

Escalate technical or programme issues where required

Maintain a high standard of safety, housekeeping and FOD prevention

Essential Requirements

Previous Typhoon experience – essential

Engineering apprenticeship, ideally in Aeronautical Engineering, or military equivalent qualification

Minimum City & Guilds 2675 or 2661 in Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance, or equivalent

Minimum 2 years' experience working at Technician level before undertaking a supervisory role

Demonstrable experience and competence within an aircraft maintenance environment

Strong understanding of approved technical data and aircraft maintenance procedures

Experience supervising or providing technical guidance to maintenance personnel

Practical experience applying aviation safety standards and safe operating practices

Experience maintaining aircraft/component records and technical documentation

IT literate

Additional Requirements

The successful candidate will be expected to have or complete relevant programme requirements, including:

Typhoon Composite Flight Servicing

Human Factors

E&PW Awareness

ITAR Awareness

Fire Training

Leadership Foundation

PDR training/experience

Relevant Exposition and Functionally Mandated Procedures awareness

Why Consider This Opportunity?

Work directly on the Eurofighter Typhoon

Progress into a junior supervisory position

Combine hands-on maintenance with team leadership

Work within a highly experienced international engineering organisation

Support a major military aviation programme

Develop your leadership and technical responsibilities within a specialist fast-jet environment

If you're an experienced Typhoon Technician who is ready to take the next step into supervision, we'd like to hear from you
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed