Company Overview

Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. At Joby, we've been working to make that dream a reality since 2009 and we're now in the final stages of certifying our aircraft with the FAA. With plans to launch our aircraft in the US and Dubai, we're now scaling manufacturing and preparing for the launch of our commercial service.

Overview

Joby is seeking an experienced aircraft maintenance professional to serve as the UAE Maintenance Manager and the nominated post holder for Joby’s Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO) under UAE GCAA CAR 145. Accountable to the Accountable Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that all maintenance carried out on the Joby eVTOL aircraft in the UAE is performed to the standards required by CAR 145 and the approved Maintenance Organization Exposition (MOE), including the authority to certify release to service.

This is a leadership role centered on building and running the UAE maintenance organization. The post holder will own the MOE and its supporting procedures, establish and administer certifying staff authorizations, ensure the facility, tooling, stores, and maintenance data meet regulatory requirements, and lead the maintenance team delivering base and line maintenance in support of the flight program. The role works closely with the Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO), the Quality/Compliance function, flight operations, and Joby’s engineering and maintenance teams in the United States.

The post holder is Joby’s primary maintenance interface with the GCAA and will represent the organization during initial approval, audits, surveillance activity, and scope extensions. The ideal candidate is passionate about establishing and executing the highest standards of aircraft airworthiness, with safety and regulatory compliance at the core, and is motivated by the challenge of standing up a maintenance organization for a new aircraft type.

Responsibilities

 Act as the GCAA-nominated post holder responsible for ensuring all maintenance carried out by the organisation is performed to the standard required by CAR 145, and hold final authority on airworthiness and certification of release to service for each S4 aircraft maintained in the UAE.

•   Own the Maintenance Organisation Exposition (MOE) and its supporting procedures, including drafting, submission, revision control and continued alignment with the approved scope of work and capability list.
•   Direct base and line maintenance activity, including maintenance planning, work package preparation, task allocation, defect rectification, shift handover and technical records.
•   Lead and resource the UAE maintenance team, covering recruitment, development, rostering and the forecasting of manpower and licence coverage against the demands of the flight programme.
•   Establish and administer the certifying and support staff authorisation system under CAR 66 and CAR 145, together with the initial, continuation and human factors training programmes and associated competence records.
•   Ensure facilities, tooling, calibrated equipment, ground support equipment, stores and the traceability of aircraft parts meet CAR 145 requirements, and lead the build-out of the UAE MRO and line maintenance facility including capability development and spares provisioning.
•   Ensure approved maintenance data — maintenance manuals, service bulletins, airworthiness directives and engineering orders — is current, controlled and available to personnel, and that embodiment is correctly planned and recorded.
•   Interface with the CAMO on maintenance programme compliance, airworthiness reviews, deferred defects, MEL rectification intervals, reliability data and continuing airworthiness records

• Coordinate maintenance processes and procedures with Joby as the OEM and with Joby’s FAA Part 145 repair station, aligning UAE practices, tooling and training with OEM standards while meeting CAR 145 requirements, and feeding UAE in-service findings back to the OEM.

•   Support the compliance monitoring programme on audits, findings, root cause analysis and corrective action, and act as the primary maintenance point of contact for the GCAA during initial approval, surveillance, inspections and applications to extend the approval scope.
•   Uphold occurrence reporting and mandatory occurrence report obligations, contribute to hazard identification and risk mitigation under the Safety Management System, and instil a strong culture of safety and regulatory compliance across all maintenance activity.
•   Report maintenance performance, aircraft airworthiness status and resource risk to the Accountable Manager, escalating any issue affecting airworthiness without delay, and support other maintenance projects as assigned.

Required

High school diploma or GED equivalent; a technical or engineering qualification is preferred.

•   A UAE GCAA CAR 66 aircraft maintenance licence (B1 or B2), or an EASA Part-66 licence or FAA Mechanic Certificate with Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) rating together with the ability to qualify for and obtain a UAE licence.
•   Minimum of five years of recent aircraft maintenance experience within a CAR 145, EASA Part-145 or equivalent approved maintenance organisation, including at least two years in a supervisory or managerial capacity.
•   Ability to meet the knowledge, background and experience criteria for a GCAA-nominated CAR 145 post holder and to be accepted by the GCAA following documentation review and interview, including working knowledge of CAR 145, CAR 66 and continuing airworthiness requirements; knowledge of EASA and/or FAA regulations preferred.
•   Practical experience developing and revising a Maintenance Organisation Exposition, and administering certifying staff authorisations, technical training and human factors programmes.
•   Ability to qualify for and obtain a Joby S4 type rating.
•   Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to represent the organisation credibly to the regulator and to senior leadership.

• Have a UAE driver's license or the ability to obtain one

•   Eligibility to live and work in the UAE, a valid passport with no travel restrictions, and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% of the time.

Desired

Previous acceptance by the GCAA or another civil aviation authority as a nominated post holder for a CAR 145 or Part-145 organisation.

•   Experience taking a maintenance organisation through initial CAR 145 or Part-145 approval, including capability and scope development and the drafting of expositions for a UAE CAMO and AMO.
•   Experience maintaining novel, experimental or flight test aircraft, including electric propulsion, high-voltage battery systems, composite structures or eVTOL platforms.
•   Familiarity with electronic aircraft maintenance management and ERP systems.
•   FAA Inspection Authorization.
•   Arabic language skills.