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Kenya Airways, the leading African airline flying to more African destinations than any other carrier, takes pride in being at the forefront of connecting Africa to the world and the World to Africa through its hub Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Purpose
Organize and control the aircraft spares in the warehouse to ensure spares are securely warehoused, handled and issued in accordance with airworthiness requirements and Kenya Airways Plc Quality standards to support schedule requirements of Kenya Airways and other operators.
Responsibilities
Aircraft Spares & Tools Management:
- Ensure proper warehousing and handling of aircraft spares and tools in compliance with airworthiness and company quality standards.
- Issue items as needed to support schedule requirements for Kenya Airways and other operators.
Access Regulation & Security:
Inventory Management:
- Oversee inventory levels within the warehouse and utilize software systems (like OASES) to track stock, maintain accurate records, and conduct regular audits.
- Ensure stock accuracy of at least 98%.
Receiving & Inspection:
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Oversee the receipt of incoming shipments, checking for quantities, defects, and ensuring that all items meet quality standards and match purchase orders.
Storage & Organization:
Distribution & Allocation:
Safety & Compliance:
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Ensure the warehouse complies with safety regulations, including adherence to OEM guidelines (e.g., MSDS), proper handling of materials, and overall compliance with safety protocols.
Documentation & Reporting:
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Maintain records of inventory transactions, orders, and shipments, while generating reports to track trends and support decision-making processes.
Continuous Improvement:
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Actively identify and implement opportunities to enhance warehouse operations, optimize inventory practices, reduce costs, and improve overall efficiency
Skills
- Knowledge of KCAA/EASA and Company requirements preferred.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure
- Ability to work on a shift schedule.
Qualifications
- Degree in Supply Chain management/Logistics/Business management/Commerce OR Diploma Supply Chain Management/ Logistics/Business Management and 5 years’ experience in aviation may be considered.
- An in-depth knowledge of Inventory and Supply chain management.
- Training in handling of Dangerous Goods will be an added advantage.
- Forklift certification and/or ability to successfully complete forklift training and operate machinery safely will be an added advantage.
- General knowledge of logistics, warehousing procedures and statutory regulations.
- Computer literacy, MRP proficiency.
- Minimum 2-year experience in a similar role within a Warehouse environment.
Additional Information
- Attention to Detail: Critical for managing inventory levels and ensuring accuracy in records and transactions.
- Organizational Skills: Essential for overseeing warehouse operations, ensuring proper storage and easy accessibility of materials.
- Problem Solving: To handle discrepancies, resolve issues with shipments, and optimize processes.
- Safety Awareness: Ensuring adherence to safety standards in both handling and storing materials.
- Communication & Coordination: Ability to liaise effectively with various stakeholders, including procurement, material planning, engineering
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Purpose
Administer, Initiates and progress claims in respect of maintenance reserves, warranties, guarantees and insurance for enhanced product quality and protecting the financial interests of the organization through effective warranty management.
Responsibilities
Maintenance Claims
Warranty Claims
Contracted terms claims
Guarantee claims
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Track aircraft, engine, and component performance and MTBF/MTBRs and where below guarantee, initiates action to obtain compensation.
Insurance claims
Records
Skills
- Strong Business acumen.
- Self-starter who can work with minimal direct supervision on both ad -hoc requests and core tasks.
- Strong analytical ability and attention to detail, excellent math skills a must.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and working knowledge of MS Excel, Word & Power Point programs.
- Ability to work a task to completion within predetermined time constraints is critical for this function.
Qualifications
- University Degree from recognized institution in Engineering or Supply Chain Management.
- Familiar with all corresponding repair, warranties, stores, inventory, technical, production and quality interfaces.
- Aviation Industry experience in supply chain is preferable Additional Qualifications.
- Proficient in examining large and complex datasets to detect trends and derive meaningful insights.
- Ability to understand complex contracts and summarize key terms.
- Strong working knowledge of aircraft maintenance is an added advantage.
- Successful completion of the Graduate Engineering Program will be an added advantage.
- 5 years working knowledge and experience preferably from aircraft maintenance or in a technical field.
Additional Information
- Assertive
- Good decision-making ability
- Strong team player
- Proactive (Bias for action and takes initiative)
- Have proven integrity, transparency and accountability
- Ability to handle multiple tasks without compromising quality
- Ability to work independently in fast paced environment
- Leadership quality
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Customer focused and quality consciousness
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Purpose
- Provide guidance for new systems and enhancements to existing systems/applications, and insights to key stakeholders to plan, direct and coordinate activities for provision of aviation support services. Develop insights and understanding of the market for the MRO including growth opportunities.
- To ensure that strategic inventories, Tooling & ASE control processes are in place to enable operational and maintenance continuity. Takes a co-coordinating lead, working closely with internal and external parties to ensure supply of materials is in place to satisfy maintenance requirements. Able to deliver efficient, effective, and flexible solutions to meet maintenance requirements. Develop coordinates and plan warehouse storage and distribution strategies for all technical materials, Equipment and Tools to ensure an effective business support through timely availability of materials and spares.
- Ensure all corrective maintenance activities are responded to and completed by the outsourced facility maintenance contractor, within agreed contractual Service Level Agreements (SLAs), by monitoring output performance, chairing regular performance review forums.
- Technical asset management through running of day-to-day sub -ledger.
- Day to day management of all materials in outstation and outsourced consignment globally.
Responsibilities
Strategy and Development
- Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practices in inventory control vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
- Develop tactical and operational plans in support of Departmental strategic directions.
- Develop and implement materials movement transaction processes for all KQ inventories that ensure timely, accurate and complete recording of materials related business operational costs across the business functions for an effective and efficient cost structure and management accounts reporting.
- Develop and coordinate implementation of stock management policies and procedure guidelines for all Company inventories across the network and devise a revision mechanism that guarantees business development strategies are adequately aligned with such policies to promote growth.
- Support function (third party Maintenance/Business).
- Developing of asset management framework.
General and Task Management
- Maintain receiving, issuing and transportation operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing company policies and procedures.
- Develop and implement measures that ensure that all aircraft spares, tools, and materials received comply with specifications and airworthy documentations in the Acceptance, Storage, Control, Security, Handling and Delivery as per KCAA and KQ requirements whilst ensuring that the data is correctly recorded in the OASES system.
- Controls inventory levels by conducting cycle counts and other physical counts as needed. Ensures that all results are properly reconciled with OASES data.
- Monitoring the contracted consignment stocks and ensuring timely inventory reconciliation and reporting.
- Ensuring effective and efficient distribution system of Technical Materials to 3rd Party MRO clients.
- Implementation and management of free-trade zone operations in the bonded warehouse.
- Continuously design, develop and implement flexible solutions to aid business efficiency, drive process improvements and add value.
- Ensure strategic and operational information, reports and metrics are available to share with others in the business as and when required.
- Report on achievement of targets and identify any corrective action.
- Maintains physical condition of warehouse by planning and implementing new design layouts, ensure regular repair and maintenance, to create a conducive working environment for staff.
- Monitoring material movement in the outstation.
People Management
- Manage, coach, and develop a high performing team that meets agreed objectives, and which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements.
- Ensure planning for leave days, staff training, appraisals, hiring of new employees and their orientation, employee performance appraisals, coaching and mentoring front line supervisors.
- Set departmental objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports.
- Ensure that the function operates in accordance with any health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of self, staff, and visitors.
- Monitoring the performance of contracted staff and ensuring agreed targets are met.
Relationship Management
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to forecast, plan, and facilitate on-time materials availability as and when required avoiding disruption to maintenance.
- Take lead on internal and external relationships to ensure consistent, timely and effective communication regarding material availability.
- Work with cross functional teams to deliver effective solutions.
- Liaise with stakeholders on product change requests and review and communicate the impact on material availability and schedules.
- Support new business initiatives and projects and contribute to review meetings and change process. Ensure effective implementation takes place relating to the changes.
- Contribute to supplier meetings and negotiations to ensure demand for materials is met.
- Resolve supplier concerns and evaluate supplier performance in conjunction with members of the materials management and procurement team.
- Work closely with the purchasing team to ensure purchasing strategies are maximized.
Self-Management
- Comply with the Health, Safety and Environmental Policies.
- Support, encourage and develop team.
- Proactively contribute to creating a good team atmosphere.
- Is resilient, optimistic and open to change 5. Self-starter and able to motivate others.
- Flexible and works well under pressure.
Budget & Reporting
- Develop and implement the annual budget for Technical Stores.
- Prepare management reports to support decisions on a regular basis.
- Approve and review all freight invoices to ensure proper billing for services received, review and dispute when necessary any charge backs and/or unforeseen accessorial charges.
- Review and approve freight invoices through checking for fairness, accuracy, and conformity with contracted terms to ensure proper billing for services received.
Contract Development & Management
Process Development & Improvement
- Continuously evaluate functional capability of the aircraft MRO system (OASES) to optimize business information exchange for better planning and operational purposes.
- Liaise regularly with Material Planning to continuously develop and review an aircraft materials stock holding policy to ensure adequate and cost-effective inventory holdings are achieved.
- Develop continuous process improvement initiatives for Technical Stores such as KQ Way.
Skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Highly skilled communicator with the ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally.
- Proven analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills.
- Unquestionable integrity and ethics.
- Experience of delivering results through cross-functional working.
- Knowledge of KQ Way Practices.
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Results orientated and organized with the ability to plan and deliver against deadlines.
- Excellent attention to detail.
Qualifications
- Degree in Engineering/Supply Chain Management or related field.
- Commercial and financial acumen.
- Proficiency in computerized inventory control system.
- Proven management skills with the ability to optimize team performance and development 5. Expert knowledge and understanding of a variety of aviation processes, component handling and supply chain management.
- Asset management. Additional Qualifications (Technical).
- Knowledge of aircraft parts airworthiness certification (EASA, FAA) KCAA and customs regulations relevant to aircraft parts.
- Strategic thinking and business understanding.
- 8 years’ experience in material management or supply chain operation with at least 3 years in management role.
- 5 Years’ experience in aircraft maintenance environment preferred.
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Purpose
- Design, develop, implement, and maintain cost effective strategies for Technical Material Planning to meet production requirements of Kenya Airways and third-party operators while meeting KCAA requirements and other relevant Civil Aviation Regulators.
Responsibilities
Strategic Development
- Lead and manage creation of vision, strategies, policies, processes, and procedures for provisioning aircraft materials and inventory management.
General and Task Management
- Lead and manage development of strategic, tactical, and operational material management plans for effective delivery of Material Management process for aircraft spares, rotables and services.
- Manage and guide components provisioning operations including initial and continuous material provisioning.
- Lead and manage continuous review of materials consumption and stock availability to meet KQ and its third-party customer’s expectations.
- Lead and manage implementation of inventory management strategy processes & controls to ensure optimum stock levels.
Self-Management
- Comply with the Health, Safety and Environmental Policies.
- Support and develop team.
- Proactively contribute to creating good working environment.
- Is resilient, optimistic, and open to change
- Self-starter and able to motivate others.
- Flexible and works well under pressure.
People Management
- Lead in the development and coaching a high performing team.
- Lead and manage setting of sectional objectives/KPIs and performance appraisal.
Process Development & Improvement
- Continuously optimize aircraft MRP to support the material cost management and supplier performance processes in liaison with IS department.
- Review and analyse spend costs and patterns and advise the business on best practices and corrective actions.
Relationship Management
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external customers and supplier that results in timely spares delivery for KQ and third-party customer satisfaction.
- Contribute to supplier meetings and negotiations to ensure company interests are protected.
- Perform supplier performance and resolve supplier concerns in conjunction with other stakeholders.
- Develop and implement service level agreements (SLAs) are adhered to by the relevant stakeholders.
- Lead in timely and satisfactory resolution of orders, quotes & invoices queries raised by both internal and external customers.
- Ensure compliance with MCM, Civil Aviation regulations and Laws of Kenya in acquisition of aircraft parts and tools.
Budget & Reporting
- Develop, implement, and control the annual budget for material planning.
- Lead and manage quarterly review of budgetary performance adjusting to meet requirements.
- Lead in preparation of Management reports to support decisions on a regular.
Skills
- Strategic thinking and business understanding.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Unquestionable integrity and ethics.
Qualifications
- Degree in Engineering/Supply Chain Management or related field.
- Aircraft maintenance & parts repair management experience.
- Commercial experience.
- Proficiency in computerised inventory control system.
- Knowledge of aircraft parts airworthiness certifications (EASA, FAA) KCAA and customs regulations relevant to aircraft parts desirable.
- Good understanding of IATA resolutions and industry rules.
- Setting and managing contracts with clear targets.
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a planning function with at least 3 years in a management role.
- 5 Years’ experience in aircraft maintenance environment preferred.
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Purpose
Ensure inventory optimization through review and analysis of data and provision of solutions / proposals that guide agreement / contract decisions and establish supplier performance indicators by applying industry proven metrics for measuring & improvement of supplier performance to drive business operations.
Responsibilities
- Drive contracts negotiation by analyzing and reviewing the requisite materials data.
- Operationalize existing contracts and agreements.
- Monitor and control contracts performance – CSP, PBH’s, GTA’s,Adhocs.
- Generating management reports regularly or as required.
- Review and management of materials cost.
Skills
- Proven analytical, planning and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Cost analysis and management skills.
- Project management skills.
- Organizational skills.
- Contract Management.
- Good communicator with ability to form and maintain good relationship.
Qualifications
- University degree in Engineering/Supply Chain Management.
- Strong IT systems knowledge and skills including advanced Excel skills.
- Experience of working in a material cost control role and supervising the smooth supply of materials in line with maintenance requirements and budget, ideally within aviation or manufacturing.
- Experience in contract management.
- Knowledge of inventory management.
- Advanced understanding of materials management data and systems.
- Knowledge of aircraft components/parts.
- Ability to read, understand & interpret approved maintenance documentation e.g.; IPC, RSPL, AMM, SBs etc · Knowledge of lean techniques.
- Knowledge of aircraft parts airworthiness certification (EASA, FAA) KCAA and customs regulations relevant to aircraft parts desirable good understanding of IATA resolutions and industry rules.
- Membership of an appropriate professional body will be an added advantage.
- 5 years working knowledge and experience preferably from aircraft maintenance or in a technical field.
Additional Information
- Strategic thinking and business understanding.
- Results orientated with the ability to plan, deliver against deadlines and meet targets.
- Ability to do conflict resolution.
- Is organized and able to balance work and life.
- Good in time management.
- Able to do self-improvement.
- Resilient and able to manage stress and deliver results.
- Has high level of patience.
- Attention to detail.
- Unquestionable integrity and ethics.
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Purpose
Prepare and apply protective and decorative coatings on aircraft components to required technical and quality standards. As assigned, maintain Kenya Airways aircraft livery, paint components and equipment to meet Kenya Airways, KCAA and other applicable regulatory requirements whilst enhancing market appeal.
Responsibilities
Surface Preparation:
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Remove old paint, corrosion, and contaminants using chemical and mechanical methods.
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Clean, mask, sand, and chemically treat surfaces prior to painting.
Paint Application:
- Use appropriate techniques and procedures to produce the required finish on the components
- Work with epoxy, polyurethane, enamel, and chromate-based products as required.
- Rectify paint defects such as runs, sags, fisheyes, or foreign object debris (FOD) contamination.
- Diagnosing and resolving issues related to paint application, adhesion, or finish.
Quality Control:
- Inspect and document all work, ensuring compliance with internal procedures, OEM manuals, and regulatory standards.
- Check that tools and equipment are in a safe, tested and usable condition and within current calibration date
Maintenance
- Maintain spray equipment, paint booths, ventilation systems and tools in a clean, safe, and operational condition and return all tools and equipment to the correct location on completion of the activities.
- Ensuring proper storage and handling of paints, solvents, and other materials.
Safety Compliance:
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Adhere to procedures or systems in place for risk assessment, personal protective equipment, and environmental protection, handling of hazardous materials, relevant safety regulations and procedures.
Documentation:
Skills
- Proficiency in surface preparation and paint application techniques.
- Understanding of aircraft materials (aluminum, composites, etc.) and corrosion protection.
- Attention to detail and a high standard of workmanship.
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and process sheets.
- Familiarity with paint thickness measurement tools.
- Strong focus on safety, cleanliness, and FOD prevention.
- Knowledge of paint mixing and color matching.
- Good communication and teamwork abilities.
- Familiar with paint systems and application techniques, including the use and maintenance of painting tools and equipment.
- Knowledge of safety regulations and procedures related to paint handling and application.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Good communication and documentation skills.
Qualifications
- Completed a recognized apprentice program or
- Holds relevant KNEC Engineering Diploma or equivalent from a recognized institution
- Trade test training or certification in industrial or aircraft painting.
- Knowledge of desktop publishing software and stencil cutting techniques.
- Physical stamina and ability to work in confined spaces or at heights.
- Familiarity with aerospace materials and coatings is a plus.
- Minimum of 1 years of experience in aircraft or industrial painting.
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