Since graduating Rachel has been working within Aviation for the past 14 years, the last 6 years in the Aircraft Engineering arena. In her last position Rachel held the position of Contracts Manager at Thomas Cook Aircraft Engineering (TCAE), a subsidiary of Thomas Cook Group plc.
Prior to TCAE, Rachel held positions with several handling companies, airlines and MROs including Aviance, Air 2000, Airtours, MyTravel Airways and MyTravel Aircraft Engineering.
Rachel has been involved in an interesting and diverse array of roles covering Route Planning, Business Intelligence, Materials and Logistics, Line and Hangar Maintenance, the provision of third party aircraft maintenance services and technical translation and authoring.
In addition to this Rachel has managed a variety of projects including running pan-European stock checks, the seamless joining of Engineering Commercial departments following the merger of MyTravel Airways and Thomas Cook Airlines, fuel monitoring programmes and the review and implementation of new Security, Safety and Facility operational functions at a Maintenance facility.
Rachel has a degree in Modern Languages, is Prince2 certified and is currently working towards gaining a CPE/GDL (Non-qualifying LLB) Law degree.