Summary
Air Arabia is recruiting a Cabin Engineer to carry out and supervise cabin appearance maintenance on its aircraft and third-party aircraft. Duties include inspections, defect rectification, maintenance certification and records, safety management, and coordination with engineers and technicians. Applicants need an aeronautical diploma or equivalent, relevant aircraft maintenance licensing and approvals, and experience in a line or base workshop; external applicants need at least one year certifying Airbus A320 family maintenance and four years in a maintenance environment. Applicants must be available to attend an invitation-only recruitment event in Colombo in mid-November 2026 if shortlisted and invited.
The posting
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Special Note – Sri Lanka Recruitment Event
This vacancy is linked to Air Arabia’s upcoming invitation-only Engineering Recruitment Event in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Candidates should apply to this vacancy only if they are available to attend the recruitment event in Colombo, Sri Lanka mid November 2026, subject to being shortlisted and invited by Air Arabia. Full event details, including venue, date, timing and interview schedule, will be shared only with shortlisted candidates prior to the event.
If you are interested in similar Air Arabia opportunities but are not available to attend the Sri Lanka event, please apply separately to the relevant non-event vacancy on the Air Arabia careers site.
Job Purpose
The successful candidate carries out and supervises Cabin Appearance Line or Base-level maintenance tasks on Air Arabia and Third party aircrafts within the corresponding License Category, ensuring the required work is performed, certified and recorded accurately and timely in accordance with Air Arabia and regulatory requirements.
Key Result Responsibilities
Operational Excellence
- Constantly verifies and ensures compatibility and readiness of cabin appearance components as per approved standards and quantity to be used as and when needed.
- Reviews assigned task cards with the Workshop Supervisor to gain full understanding of the work, priorities, documentation requirements and cautions, prior to starting work.
- Prepares and performs scheduled cabin appearance maintenance according to assigned task cards, ensuring feasibility and cost effectiveness; ensures that the required documentation, parts, tools and GSE are obtained and used per issued instructions (wherever applicable).
- Carries out component (cabin appearance) test and inspection tasks to the standard necessary to fully identify and record any defects or damage in accordance with approved maintenance procedures.
- Performs defect rectification in accordance with Aircraft Approved Data and instructions provided by Engineering Department.
- Signs off maintenance tasks performed or supervised within the scope of own authorisation, verifying that the task card and associated documents have been completed to the required standard following completion of all maintenance.
- Manages communications with other Engineers and Technicians related to the assigned tasks, ensuring proper coordination, continuity and handover of work.
Safety
- Manages the safety of assigned maintenance tasks, ensuring all published mandatory precautions are taken prior to commencing work and during task execution.
- Takes positive steps to protect self and other persons in the area of the maintenance activity from any possible injury, including the use of proper GSE and protective equipment.
- Manages human factors aspects of maintenance, ensuring that the continuity of critical maintenance tasks is protected, by avoidance of task interruption and the proper use of handover procedures.
Reputation and Teamwork
- Internal Customer Service: provides positive support to other operational teams in ABY, provides proactive and helpful professional advice, suggestions and solutions.
- Leadership: provides sound supervision and guidance to Technicians assigned to support own tasks. Ensures they are adequately briefed to perform the non-certifying maintenance tasks.
- Representing Air Arabia: presents a positive and competent image of technical professionalism to ABY Flight Crews, other companies’ personnel and ABY customers.
Cost Awareness
- Maintains positive awareness to the cost of aircraft maintenance including use of time and materials.
- Minimizes unnecessary waste of consumable material and part repair cost by avoiding unnecessary damage and repeat work during maintenance.
Qualifications (Academic, training, languages)
- Holds /has held an Aeronautical diploma or equivalent in applicable engineering and necessary Aircraft Maintenance License and company maintenance approvals on the relevant component of Airbus A320.
- Ability to obtain an unrestricted GCAA CAR 66 corresponding Category License.
- Able to demonstrate In-depth maintenance knowledge.
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English to a good standard for technical communications.
- Good computer skills (Microsoft Office)
- Ability to obtain UAE Driver’s License.
Work Experience
External applicants
- Extensive working experience in similar role in a workshop.
- At least 1 years’ experience certifying maintenance on the Airbus A320 family of aircraft.
- At least 4 years’ experience in a Line or Base Workshop Maintenance environment.