New Delhi, March 2 Air India's Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Sisirakanta Dash, will assume the role of Group Chief Strategy Officer – Engineering, starting April 1, according to an internal communication.
The airline's Senior Vice President, Project Management Office (PMO) – Engineering, Jeremy Yew, will take over as Senior Vice President (Engineering & Maintenance). In this role, he will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Engineering Division for the Air India fleet, starting April 1.
Tata Group-owned loss-making Air India is in the middle of an ambitious transformation plan.
In this new role, Dash will be responsible for developing core strategic engineering capabilities vital to the organization's long-term needs, including setting up an ecosystem to support the projected fleet growth within the Air India Group.
He and his team will be working with various stakeholders to develop local engineering capabilities, including existing greenfield projects (MRO and BMTO), and to grow strategic partnerships, Air India CEO and MD Campbell Wilson said in the communication to the staff on Monday.
MRO refers to Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) while BMTO is Basic Maintenance Training Organisation.
The communication also stated that Jeremy Yew has more than twenty years of experience in various engineering leadership positions within the Singapore Airlines Group, and that he brings a wealth of engineering and maintenance expertise to support Air India's ongoing transformation and development of in-house capabilities.
Dash and his team will report directly to Wilson, while Jeremy Yew will report to Air India's Chief Operating Officer (COO), Captain Basil Kwauk.