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Maintenance Assistant/Tug Driver

Ref 80151
Location Gatwick Further Information
Contract Type Permanent
Salary Range £20,000+
Job Type Engineering
Job Details

Salary: £20,150 - £21,787 plus shift pay
Contract Type: Permanent, full time
Working Hours: 4 on, 4 off 2 days (0700-1900hrs) 2 nights( 1900-0700hrs) or permanent nights (2100 - 0720hrs)
Location: LGW Hangar
Closing date for applications: Wednesday, 21st December 2011

Role Purpose

To ensure all hangar ground equipment is serviced, inspected and cleaned to a level in accordance with the TPM processes.
Responsibilities

Positioning equipment, maintaining vehicles and hands on maintenance rectification where possible
Assist with collection and carrying of equipment
Perform routine maintenance of vehicles including regular checking/replenishment of fluid and oil levels
Transportation of Nitrogen/Oxygen bottles for changing
Assist engineers in basic fully supervised aircraft maintenance tasks when the schedule and workload requires them to and TPM is complete.

Requirements

Must hold a tug driver licence
Recent experience as a tug driver essential with proven experience of moving Boeing 747's and Airbus A320 family aircraft at London Gatwick airport
Full knowledge of the airside/ATC driving rules at Gatwick Airport
As night shift is the critical operation, a certain amount of flexibility is required to slip on to night shift to cover leave and sickness