Make an impact by driving fleet reliability, safety, and innovation across Jetstar’s operations
Full time, permanent opportunity based at our Jetstar Headquarters in Melbourne
Take off with exclusive employee perks, including our world-class staff travel program

About Our Engineering Team

We rely on our Jetstar Engineering Team to deliver our superior safety standards, up to the second. They’re the trouble-shooters, glitch-fixers and tech-experts who make sure we take to the sky safely. Solving problems. Trying new things. Getting hands-on. Fixing and double checking. It’s all part of the day job as a Jetstar Engineer – whether you’re on the frontline as a Maintenance Engineer or in our Engineering Corporate & Support Team ensuring that we land deadlines, keep projects on track and work as a team to help us transform our fleet for the better.

Your Opportunity

We are currently looking for suitably qualified Technical Specialist to join our CAMO/Engineering department. This position will be situated within the Jetstar CAMO Airbus Fleet Team. You will be responsible for supporting the operation of our fleet and display an ongoing commitment to operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Reporting to the Airbus Fleet Technical Manager, you’ll be required to demonstrate extreme ownership of systemic issues, prioritise and aggressively implement solutions. You will need to demonstrate strong leadership through collaborating and partnering with other parts of Engineering, the airline and external stakeholders.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Providing CAMO technical support for Jetstar fleet ensuring safe, reliable and compliant management in your field of work
Demonstrating commitment to CASA and other industry regulatory authorities so that continued airworthiness management and company standards can be sustained by sound process and procedures
Liaising with CASA Part 21 design organisations to develop and embody design changes to the fleet to support modifications and enhancements, ancillary revenue initiatives and fuel conservation projects
Technically assessing service literature from a large range of regulators, and OEM's
Consulting with Central Maintenance Planners and Heavy Maintenance Planners to ensure all maintenance requests are aligned with the expectations of Jetstar
Investigating safety critical events and defects in order to find root cause, identify mitigation actions and collate sound investigative reports
Providing technical expertise to the Maintenance Operations Centre and Jetstar Part 145 AMO by providing technical advice, documentation and AOG support
Working with internal and external stakeholders to identify and actively manage all fleet reliability and safety threats
Acting as the Technical Focal for AOG support on technical issues and provide onsite support as required
Collaborating with MRO Technical Coordinators to support operational requirements, C-Checks and other maintenance visits.

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

Qualifications as a Professional engineer (degree) or Aircraft Maintenance Engineer
Proven experience in an airline Technical Services, specialising in Avionics System
Experience in TRAX Maintenance Information System or equivalent MIS
Strong knowledge of A320 aircraft type
Ability to communicate & negotiate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
Knowledge of Departmental processes and procedures
Process driven, with experience in constructing new processes to deliver business goals
Highly motivated with a learning mindset
Able to build effective working relationships

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, plus Jetstar Branded Airlines (JBA’s) in Japan.

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: Sunday 11th January 2026

We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.

Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.

Our people are the real jet stars!

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Technical Specialist - A320 Fleet