Gallery: GT Engine Services' Facility At Stansted Airport

Located next to Stansted Airport, around 35 miles east of Central London, GT Engine Services was founded in 2010 by Greg Macleod, who remains the company's managing director.

Likened by its owner to a "pseudo overhaul shop," carrying out most engine MRO services apart from full overhauls, GT Engine Services currently specializes in the maintenance and repair of CFM56, CF34, CF6, PW4000, V2500, RB211 and Trent 700 engines. Among its core specialist services include engine checks, borescope inspections, module changes, top case and bottom case repairs and storage and preservation work.

GT Engine Services has capacity to store up to 150 engines in total with space for around 20 or so engines in its workshop. Split into two separate buildings, the company has recently merged the location of maintenance and repairs into one building with engine storages consolidated into the other location.

GT Engine Services currently employs around 40 people, all on full-time contracts, at its Stansted facility. The company says recruitment has been consistent despite the industry-wide challenges of the past two years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company intends to recruit more staff in order to meet any work ramp ups.

Sustainability has been a key focus of GT Engine Services' strategy in recent years, with the business rolling out initiatives including the incentivizing of employee electric car ownership and targeting recycling of parts taken from engines. The company's latest initiative is the planned installation of solar panels on the roof of its facility. Further reduction of waste through digitizing its paperless documentation processes is also something under consideration.

While not immune to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, GT Engine Services says business is now surpassing pre-COVID levels in terms of work volumes. Much of this is driven by narrowbody engines but some new success was found in widebody engines serving the cargo segment, according to Macleod. The managing director now sees new-generation engine models, namely the LEAP and the GTF, as playing big roles in the company’s future as it looks for further growth.