Aircraft Planner

Morson Talent are currently recruiting for 2 x Aircraft Production Planners for permanent roles based at RAF Brize Norton. 

Job Purpose
Pre-input planning of customer aircraft line and base maintenance in accordance with MAA Regulatory requirements governing P145 AMO, including creation of aircraft work packs, issuance of pre-load, task break-down and other scheduled maintenance planning activity. Providing full on-site Planning support to the Production teams.

Key responsibilities
• Review customer work pack for content to ensure within P145 scope of work as detailed in the MOE.
• Scheduled and un-scheduled aircraft maintenance work package build/assembly including milestones, resource and critical path planning.
• Create new Task cards as required ensuring complex maintenance tasks are identified.
• Generation of equipment summary reports including access requirements, tooling, parts and material call-ups.
• Identification of work content requiring the services of external agencies and sub-contractors
• Detailed review of work content including the identification of complex, safety critical, critical path and any other tasks requiring additional P145 AMO regulatory requirements.
• Checking of tasks cards for accuracy and completeness and applying task time estimates.
• Organise and Chair pre-input meetings to multiple stakeholders for all base inputs.
• Follow MOE and procedures to ensure compliance at all times.
Health and Safety
• Understand individual operational safety and security responsibilities including
• Be aware of personal health and safety and the health and safety of others at work. Including Management responsibilities as required by H&S Manual.
• Be aware of aviation safety responsibilities with regards to the Safety Policy. Including Management responsibilities as required by the Safety Management Manual
• Be aware of aviation security responsibilities with regards to the Security Policy.
Essential skills and qualifications
• Experience in using aircraft technical documentation to plan aircraft maintenance with task and ground time estimation.
• Good working knowledge of MAA Regulations and CAMO P145 interface requirements.
• Excellent organisational ability with high level attention to detail and logical approach to task sequencing.
• Previous Planning experience civil or military maintenance/production planning, with base or line. • Ability to review tasks to ensure they are adequately planned to consider Human Factors.
• Ability to converse with the customer at all levels of seniority.
• Good working knowledge of AMOS or similar system in a production planning role.
• Experience in the use of Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Word, Excel at advance level.
Desirable skills
• Strong quantitative, analytical, project management skills and experience, with lean management principles.
• Effective, highly credible communicator written and with strong interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of the Financial, Commercial and Procurement processes within and the needs of the Customers.
• Recognised aircraft engineering qualification