Production Planning Engineer (MRO – Part 145)
Permanent
Monday – Friday (08:30 to 17:00)
Stansted Airport
Fixed Term Contract (15 Months)
Client Overview:
* The client is a leading MRO Aviation company, who specialise in light & business jet aircraft.
Role Overview:
* The Planning Engineer produces maintenance work packs and controls maintenance process from inception to client handover.
Responsibilities:
* Accountable for the production of maintenance work packages and the management of complex maintenance and modification projects.
* Communicates with customers regarding 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 to 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 Engineers 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. 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.
* Assist SBDM to best manage customers’ expectations.
Experience & Qualification:
* Demonstrable experience of project management within an engineering environment.
* 5 years of experience in aviation maintenance, operations, CAMO.
* Demonstrate good presentation and interpersonal skills.
* Experienced in the usage of Wings ERP or equivalent.