Aircraft Production Planner

MPI have a requirement for an Aircraft Production Planner to be based at Stansted for a minimum 3 months plus temp to perm for right candidate

Rate of pay to be discussed at time of application and are negotiable.

Job Purpose:

The Part 145 Planning Engineer Supports the organisation in production and management of maintenance and modification projects

Accountability:

Accountable for production of accurate maintenance work packages and the management of complex maintenance and modification projects in accordance with ITJC processes and procedures.

Main Responsibilities and Duties:

• Manages complex aircraft maintenance and modification projects to protect the critical path.
• Communicates with customers at a professional level in relation to maintenance input planning ensuring that the requested work scope is received, understood and translatable into a tangible work package.
• Produces work packages in line with the customers’ requirements to ensure access, spares, tooling, manpower and third-party service requirements are identified, ordered and available prior the aircraft scheduled downtime.
• Communicates with approved third-party vendors for the arrangement of services to make sure their attendance and time estimates fall within the requirements to maintain the critical path.
• Coordinates Part-21 Design Organisations to engineer and support customer requests for aircraft modification, ensuring documentation meets the requirements of EASA/Foreign NAA to allow implementation under company approvals.
• Prepares and chairs internal pre-input review meetings with Commercial, Engineering & Logistics departments in line with company milestone requirements.
• Performs pre-input review meeting with customer to discuss incoming defects and customer specific requirements.
• Coordinates acceptance of aircraft into maintenance.
• Identifies and proactively resolves critical path issues which could affect the aircraft input schedule.
• Provides our customer with updates on the project progress on a daily basis during aircraft maintenance.
• Reviews and completes the aircraft library, e.g. Technical Log, Deferral Log, etc. during an input and upon release to service.
• Provides assistance to Document Control with review of completed paperwork and rectification of issues arising.
• Generates documentation and supports certifying staff through the return to service stage of aircraft maintenance input.
• Constantly seeks improvement in all activities to maximise productivity and minimise cost.
• Provides assistance to SBDM to best manage customers’ expectations.
• Performs any other duties within his/her capabilities as directed by the Company.

Qualifications Prerequisites:

• Demonstrable experience of project management within an engineering environment.
• Must have a few years aviation maintenance, operations, CAMO or manufacturing.
• Strong PC user skills (Excel, Word, MS Project)
• Demonstrate good presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Show a good sense of priorities.
• Experienced in the usage of Wings ERP or equivalent.
• Time flexibility.

Other Specifications:

• Rigorous and self-motivated.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of the data.
• Attend and pass successfully all mandatory trainings & assessments according to the area of activity