Aircraft Interiors Manager

About the Role

Oaklands Global is recruiting an Aircraft Interiors Manager for a leading airline based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time, onsite position requires 5-10 years of experience and focuses on ensuring the airworthiness, safety, and reliability of the company’s cabin interiors, galleys, furnishings, and payload systems.

Role Purpose

The Aircraft Interiors Manager will lead the technical oversight of cabin and payload systems, ensuring full regulatory compliance and supporting operational excellence and customer experience initiatives. This role involves developing engineering solutions, managing fleet modifications, driving continuous improvement, and building a high-performing Cabin & Payload Systems team.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure continued airworthiness, safety, and regulatory compliance of cabin and payload systems across the fleet.
• Lead the evaluation and implementation of Airworthiness Directives, Service Bulletins, STCs, and fleet modifications.
• Manage cabin interior configuration and change control processes to maintain fleet standards and compliance.
• Drive reliability, availability, and cost-efficiency improvements through performance monitoring and data analysis.
• Build technical relationships with OEMs, suppliers, and service providers to ensure effective fleet support.
• Develop business cases for interior and payload system enhancements, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Lead, coach, and develop a capable Cabin & Payload Systems team while fostering innovation and technical excellence.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in aviation continuing airworthiness management (CAMO), engineering, or technical services within a commercial airline environment.
• Extensive experience in Cabin Interiors and Configuration Management, including seats, monuments, interior furnishings, non-equipment furnishings, galleys, and cabin systems.
• Strong knowledge of airworthiness, reliability, cabin standards, and fleet support.
• Experience evaluating and implementing ADs, mandatory modifications, Service Bulletins, STCs, and Part-21/DOA requirements.
• Proven interface with line maintenance, base maintenance, and workshops in an airline operating environment.
• Experience managing aircraft/cabin modifications, configuration control, OEMs, and suppliers.
• Demonstrable leadership experience managing engineering teams and cross-functional technical projects, with at least 3 years of supervisory experience.
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Mechanical, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Aviation, or an aircraft engineer type rating (full-time course, 3+ years).

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based entirely onsite in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a reputable and expanding airline.