Maintenance Planner in Arden

Arden White Recruiting on Behalf of Our Aviation Client

Job Title: Production Planning Engineer

Location: Brize Norton

Job Purpose:

Pre-input planning of customer aircraft line and base maintenance in accordance with MAA Regulatory requirements governing P145 AMO.

This includes creation of aircraft work packs, issuance of pre-load, task breakdown, and other scheduled maintenance planning activities.

The role provides full on-site planning support to the production teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review customer work packs to ensure they are within the scope of P145 as detailed in the MOE.
• Assemble scheduled and unscheduled aircraft maintenance work packages, including milestones, resource, and critical path planning.
• Generate new task cards for complex maintenance tasks.
• Produce reports detailing access requirements, tooling, parts, and material call-ups.
• Identify and manage work content requiring external agencies and subcontractors.
• Identify complex, safety-critical, critical path tasks, and any additional P145 AMO regulatory requirements.
• Ensure task cards are accurate and complete, and apply task time estimates.
• Organize and chair pre-input meetings with multiple stakeholders for all base inputs.
• Follow MOE and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance.

Health and Safety Responsibilities:

• Understand and manage individual operational safety and security responsibilities.
• Ensure personal health and safety and the health and safety of others at work.
• Be aware of aviation safety responsibilities as outlined in the Safety Policy.
• Understand aviation security responsibilities as per the Security Policy.

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience in using aircraft technical documentation for maintenance planning.
• Good working knowledge of MAA Regulations and CAMO P145 interface requirements.
• Excellent organisational ability with high attention to detail and logical task sequencing.
• Previous experience in civil or military maintenance/production planning, with base or line planning.
• Ability to review tasks for adequate planning considering Human Factors.
• Ability to converse with customers at all levels of seniority.
• Good working knowledge of AMOS or similar systems in a production planning role.
• Advanced level experience with Outlook, Word, and Excel.

Desirable Skills:

• Strong project management skills with lean management principles.
• Effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of financial, commercial, and procurement processes.
• Recognised aircraft engineering qualification.