Niklas K.

Turned from a passionate cruiser into a airline enthusiast

Studying cruise tourism management made me joining the TUI Group where I've started my career as an intern before specilaising myself in project, process and change management within TUI Airline. Nowadays, I am responsible for the strategic development of the Engineering & Maintenance department as well as for our ENJOYNEERING Ambassador scheme. Hereby looking at how we can develop an enjoyable and enriching working environment for our teams.

I drive and implement digital change across our maintenance operations

Together with our international project teams we deliver a digital ecosystem to our engineers and allow for data-driven decision-making. We standardise processes, build predictive maintenance use cases to reduce operational disruption and explore machine learning solutions to predict base maintenance findings. Keeping our fleet systems operational and future-proof ensures that our customers depart on-time for their holiday.

Driving change for more than 1,000 Enjoyneers in over 25 locations

Rolling out projects and business change to over 1,000 colleagues spread across continental Europe and the UK makes me feel to be part of a truly international team. Having the opportunity to travel to our various locations on a regular basis allows me to build trusted working relationships with colleagues and customers.

Success begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Always choose the assignment or task where you only know 75% of the answer to.This will force you to learn new things and meet new people.

Delivering a 1.9m€ saving within a 3-month project on New Year's Eve

I was confronted with the challenge to deliver a proof-of-concept plus an corresponding implementation of a new operational system for aircraft health monitoring within only 3 months before the contract of a legacy system was to be renewed. Thanks to great committment, collaboration, and communication among our operational and back-office teams we got the job done. In the end, a significant saving plus a future-proof IT system to our Maintenance Control Center was delivered and went live on New Year's Eve.