Line Maintenance Manager

• Support our growing operations across NZ & International  
• Full time, permanent opportunity in Auckland, New Zealand
• Take off with exclusive employee perks, including our world-class staff travel program

 The Jetstar NZ Engineering Team are at the forefront of delivering our superior safety standards. They are responsible for ensuring the airworthiness of our fleet of aircraft and customer aircraft, including completing all required maintenance that must be carried out on time and to approved standards to ensure they take to the skies safely. At every stage, all maintenance needs to be documented, detailed records maintained, with aircraft parts ordered and available at all times. 
 
The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Leader to join our Engineering AMO Leadership team in the role of Line Maintenance Manager

Reporting to the Regional Maintenance Manager – New Zealand & International, this role will play a critical role in delivering management to the daily operations of Jetstar’s Engineering Line Stations located across New Zealand and International locations. You will lead a team of Shift Duty Managers and a team of dedicated engineers, providing coaching and mentoring whilst ensuring the ongoing safety and compliance of people and operations.  

As a Line Maintenance Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing critical support to the Regional Maintenance Manager for the ongoing safety and compliance of the AMO people and operations in accordance with the AMO exposition
• Fostering a superior safety culture, including consultation with the team on safety matters, adherence to safe work practises including Fatigue Management Principles, safety inductions, leading investigations and implementation of post incident/hazard identification action plans
• Creating and maintaining a quality focused culture, including ensuring team member compliance with Jetstar MOE and CASA Regulatory requirements, ensuring that all aircraft technical documentation is completed and distributed in accordance with policy and procedures, and carrying out ongoing quality monitoring of documentation and procedures.
• Daily operational management, including managing aircraft schedule disruptions and recovery in consultation with MOC, management of daily unscheduled and planned maintenance, liaison with a variety of stakeholders such as maintenance planning, and participation in daily operation meetings
• Managing shift rostering requirements including roster build, overtime management, fatigue management within roster build, ad-hoc call outs, inclusion of relevant allowances, correction and submission of shift timesheets.
• Delivering strong leadership to a team of direct reports, with an emphasis on growth and development and team member engagement.

To be successful in this role, ideally you’ll have:

• Previous experience and passion for leading, coaching and mentoring a team of direct reports, within the aviation industry
• A desire for continuous improvement and proven passion about aviation
• An individual who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly changing, operational environment
• Flexibility to travel across our NZ and international ports from time to time
• Strength in problem solving and decision making, including the ability to consider the customer, cost, people and industrial impacts when proposing solutions
• Comprehensive knowledge of the CASA regulatory framework (preferred)
   

Your Life At Jetstar Is Unlike Any Other

Put the craft in aircraft: There’s a new fleet of A321LR NEO’s waiting for your arrival. Beyond Jetstar, our Engineering Team get to exposure to projects related to the Qantas Group’s A320/1, B787 and A321 Freighters.

Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar.

There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar: For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us. If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.

We’re Jetstar. Let’s takeoff together
We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply by: Tuesday 17th March 2026.