Job Opportunity Briefing by SAESL

Job Opportunity Briefing by SAESL

Date: 17 Sep 2025 (Wed)

Time: 3pm to 4pm

Venue: Via Zoom

SAESL is looking for a team of component repair and engine overhaul technicians to join them. Details about vacancies as follows.

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Job Description

1. Engine Overhaul Technician / Module Technician (Please note that shortlisted candidates will be assigned to selected scopes of work from the list below)

• Engine Test (aero engine testing / testbed operation, engine EBU / starter generator install/removal)
• Airframe / Powerplant Mechanic Skills (torque wrench, safety cable and lockwiring, handskills for mechanical fitment and removal task)
• Electrical and Instrumentation (use of electrical measurement tool, multi-meter, extraction/insertion repair kits)
• Module Building (strip and assembly, torque wrench, safety cable and lock wiring, manual measuring instruments)
• Balancing Machine (manual radial drill machine, CNC high speed grind machine, static balancing machine, horizontal balancing, etc. 

2. Component Repair Technician (Please note that shortlisted candidates will be assigned to selected scopes of work from the list below)

• General Repair (handskills for mechanical fitment and removal tasks, metal fabrication, sheet metal work, spray painting, riveting, shot peening, extraction/insertion repair kits etc.)
• Fusion Welding (TIG/GTAW, resistance welding, SMAW, MIG, EB welding, etc.)
• Non-Destructive Test (penetrant, magnetic, ultrasound, radiographic, eddy current)
• Additive Manufacturing (laser powder deposition, laser wire deposition)
• Machining (manual horizontal lathe, CNC milling, CNC vertical lathe, CNC grinding, etc.)
• Coatings (thermal spray, plasma spray, plating, CVD, PVD)
• Cleaning (chemical, mechanical cleaning / blasting, chemical etching)
• Measurement (visual, manual measuring instruments, Coordinate measuring machine (CMM),etc.)

3. Trainee Technician

The trainees will undergo a one-year traineeship program to prepare them to become qualified aircraft engine technicians to: 

• Perform preventive maintenance checks on aircraft systems, structural, electrical, and electronic components.
• Fabricate and perform approved minor repairs on airframe sheet metal parts, electrical wiring, and subsystem assemblies.
• Conduct operational checks on aircraft systems and components using appropriate test sets/tools to ensure serviceability and airworthiness, adhering to national regulations, company procedures, and safety standards.

4. Manufacturing Engineer

• HSE – Practice full compliance to Health, Safety & Environmental Standards and meet the expectations of the Zero Harm programme.
• Product Safety – Understand product safety risks and work on mitigation to meet the required safety levels supporting requirements of the Company’s Safety Management System.
• Quality – Practice a culture of zero defects ensuring that manufacturing processes and methods within the business are developed and deployed to support Right First methodology. Support process and product related Quality investigation, and manage NADCAP accreditation.
• Delivery – Ensure that manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture within the business and suppliers are developed and deployed to support/deliver Right First Time manufacture using SPS, DMAIC and System Engineering tools. Manage FAIR/MSA activities and Source & method change in the cell/area of accountability.
• Delivery – Review issues identified e.g. Troubleshoot Strip / Build, Balancing, Runout, In-situ repair, Component Repair processes and key equipment/toolings (ITT, VTL, BTG, Wash, FTB, CMM, etc), determine resolutions and reestablish the Standards.
• Cost – Support cell/area of accountability to meet cost targets e.g. productivity, CONQ etc.
• Standards – Deploy and sustain the SAESL Operating System Standards by working with the Cell/Area CFT, and where applicable with the suppliers. Identify opportunity to improve the Standards.
• Technical Authority – Specify Manufacturing Engineering and process requirements and make technical decisions in relation to the cell/area of accountability.
• Lean/Improvement – Identify requirements for improvements and innovations in manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture within their cell/area of accountability. Prioritise and promote launch of new projects based on business case. Drive manufacturing processes towards identified best practice.
• Deploy capability (including NPI) – Responsible for production readiness of new product manufacturing capabilities or methods of manufacture. Develop numerate, real time methods for capturing process capability, and ensure it is available and acted on within the facility/supply chain. Maintenance of Production Technical Packages (technical instructions, programmes, tooling, etc) for all parts/assembles which clearly define the manufacturing process ensuring manufacturing processes and/or methods of manufacture meets the requirements for quality, cost, delivery rate and lead time.