Job Title: Solutions Engineer – Airline Engineering & Maintenance
Location: Leeds Bradford Airport
Hours: Full-time, Hybrid (Office-based Tuesdays and Wednesdays)
Are you an experienced airline engineering professional with a passion for aircraft maintenance, technology and solving complex operational problems?
Join our Engineering Technologies team at Leeds Bradford Airport and help shape the future of aircraft maintenance through cutting-edge digital solutions.
About Us:
Jet2.com is one of the UK's leading leisure airlines, committed to delivering a high-quality service to our customers. We pride ourselves on our award-winning friendly culture, dynamic working environment, and dedication to providing an excellent travel experience.
Why Join Jet2.com?
Alongside a competitive salary and fantastic career development opportunities, we offer our valued colleagues a comprehensive range of benefits, including:
Financial Rewards:-
Contributory Pension Scheme: Secure your future with our contributory pension plan.
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Annual Pay Review: Stay rewarded with yearly salary reviews.
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Generous Discretionary Profit Share Scheme: Share in our success with our profit-sharing programme.
Work-Life Balance:-
34 Days Holiday Per Annum: Enjoy ample time off to recharge and relax.
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Colleague Discounts: Save on flights with Jet2.com, holidays with Jet2Holidays, and more!
Peace of Mind:-
3x Salary Life Assurance: Benefit from financial security with our life assurance plan.
Career Growth:-
Fantastic Career Development Opportunities: Advance your career with us through numerous growth prospects.
What will you do in the role?
As a
Solutions Engineer in the Engineering Technologies
team, you will blend aircraft engineering & maintenance expertise with data, analytics and digital development, to enhance continuing airworthiness management, aircraft reliability and maintenance performance.
As an airline engineering-led role you’ll work closely with colleagues across Engineering & Maintenance to understand operational challenges, identify valuable use cases and turn them into effective digital solutions.
You will also contribute to the development of aircraft health monitoring, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance capabilities to improve safety and operational availability.
You will:
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Work with stakeholders to analyse Engineering & Maintenance processes, identifying operational challenges and improvement opportunities
- Translate engineering requirements into practical, scalable digital solutions
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Develop applications, workflows, reports and visualisations using Skywise
- Develop digital solutions that bring together aircraft, maintenance and operational data, helping users identify, understand and respond to technical issues more effectively
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Support condition-based monitoring and predictive maintenance activities
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Integrate solutions into existing processes and systems, ensuring they are aligned with safety, regulatory and continuing airworthiness requirements
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Support testing, implementation, training and adoption of new solutions
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Create reports and visualisations to share insights
What do we need from you?
Airline Engineering & Maintenance experience is fundamental to this position. We’re looking for someone who can quickly understand our engineering environment, engage credibly with stakeholders and recognise where technology can solve genuine maintenance and airworthiness challenges.
You will have:
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Experience within an airline Engineering & Maintenance environment
- Strong knowledge of continuing airworthiness and Part-CAMO activities
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Understanding of aircraft maintenance processes, engineering data and operational decision-making
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The ability to investigate technical problems, identify root causes and develop practical solutions
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Demonstrate analytical, communication and stakeholder-management skills
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The confidence to work independently and take ownership of solutions from concept through to implementation.
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The ability and willingness to learn new technologies and development tools.
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An aerospace, aviation engineering or related qualification, or equivalent relevant industry experience.
Beneficial skills:
We’re particularly interested in candidates with strong airline engineering experience who have the aptitude and enthusiasm to develop their digital capabilities through supported training and development.
However, experience or knowledge in any of the following would be beneficial but not mandatory:
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Airbus Skywise or Palantir Foundry
- Aircraft health monitoring or predictive maintenance
- Reliability analysis and fleet-performance monitoring
- SQL, Python or PySpark.
- Data preparation, transformation and visualisation
- Delivering training or supporting the adoption of new systems and processes
You’ll join a forward-thinking team working at the intersection of aircraft engineering, maintenance operations, data and technology.
This is an opportunity to apply your airline engineering experience in a different way, influencing how digital solutions are used, develop valuable technical skills and contribute to the future success of Engineering & Maintenance at Jet2.com.
At
Jet2.com, we operate scheduled leisure flights from our 14 UK bases to stunning holiday destinations across the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands, and Europe's most captivating cities.
Help us create memorable holiday experiences for our valued customers with
Jet2.com and
Jet2holidays!
