About Errol Hodge

Qualifications

July 1975 – Attained the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA) Aircraft Maintenance Engineers License # 106
Successfully completed Initial training on nine different aircraft types operated by LIAT between 1972 to present and held Approvals on all complex airframes

Leadership Training Record 1986 – 2010

• Supervisory Skills - facilitated by Aer Lingus Instructor
• Total Quality Management – LIAT Training department
• Engineering Solutions to Human Problems – Directorate of Civil Aviation & the International Federation of Airworthiness
• Safety Management Systems – LIAT Training department

Antigua Barbuda Chamber of Commerce/University of the West Indies Executive Development Program covering the following subject areas
• Human Resource Management
• Leadership and Strategic Management
• Management of Organizational Change
• Behavioral Sciences for Managers
• Enhancing Team Building Skills
• Developing Problem Solving Skills

Technical Training Record 1972 – 2016

Proof of all training available on request

Expertise and Professional Experience

Nov 2000 to February 2018 - Executive Manager - Maintenance & Engineering at LIAT (1974) Ltd, reporting to and deputizing for the Director of Maintenance.

Responsible for the administration of all maintenance personnel, the allocation of staff to appropriate tasks, staff performance evaluation, training and advancement.

Held responsibility for all aircraft maintenance operations in Antigua, Barbados and Trinidad and for managing the logistics for rectification of unscheduled maintenance events across the Company’s network.

Responsible for Heavy maintenance checks in Antigua and at contracted Facilities in Canada. Oversight of various Contractor’s processes were maintained through On-Site representatives, ensuring that LIAT received value for money.

Liaison for technical matters with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) like Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney, ATR and others regarding issues affecting aircraft’s Dispatch Reliability.

Represented LIAT at Operators Conferences to ensure that issues affecting the aircraft’s reliability were tabled and discussed at open forum and commitments of resolutions gained.

1995 to 2000 - Served on the Bombardier Structures Steering Committee and the Aircraft Economic Working Group.

Assisted with the development of aircraft maintenance schedules at LIAT and served on the Maintenance Program Review and Reliability Committees.

Responsible for ensuring that the required standards of quality were achieved for all work and that maintenance was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authorities, the aircraft Manufacturers and the Company’s procedures.

Assisted the Quality Manager in investigating aircraft accidents, incidents and occurrences.