Maintenance Planning Engineer

Oxford
£DOE
  
Description/Overall purpose of the Job
Responsible for Part M/A8-25 medium/short term planning requirements, Part 145/A8-23 material planning requirements and the production of work-packs to support aircraft scheduled maintenance inputs. Review of Aircraft base maintenance work packages before A/C departure. Update of Maintenance tracking system post maintenance interventions. The Part M/A8-25 planner is also responsible for raising and the upkeep of the maintenance forecasting sheet(s).
  
Main responsibilities
- Ensure that all appropriate legislative and Company procedures are adhered to in order to ensure that the Company remains compliant and the aircraft airworthy.
- Liaise with Technical Records, the Maintenance Team and other key departments to ensure a common understanding of capability and capacity.
- Enter Technical log utilisation data into the Maintenance system.
- Review of allocated Aircraft status reports on a weekly basis to ensure full maintenance programme compliance is maintained.
- Identify provisional maintenance dates for allocated aircraft based on projected utilisation and update the in-house maintenance planning calendar with ‘Provisional’ maintenance dates.
- Review material requirements against provisional maintenance dates for allocated aircraft.
- Raise reservations/purchase requisitions for missing materials.
- Liaise with Customer Support Managers to confirm maintenance dates with the owner/operator.
- Liaise with the Airworthiness Department for the accomplishment of ADs, SBs, EOS and related airworthiness requirements.
- Raise scheduled maintenance workpacks to support regulatory compliance and confirm that required materials and necessary documentation are available for allocated aircraft.
- Review of prepared work specifications and workpacks for maintenance inputs to ensure that aircraft downtimes are minimised.
- Approve Scheduled inspection task cancellations.
- Ensure that prior to Aircraft departing from Base Maintenance inputs, all planned maintenance has been accomplished, liaise with Customer Support Managers to highlight any tasks not carried out and that the tasks are still in compliance with the AMP.
- Issue ‘Out of Phase’ item forecast for each aircraft.
- Reset Maintenance tasks on the ERP software.
- Performance of other duties as detailed by the Maintenance Planning Supervisor.

Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Must have knowledge of EASA regulations relating to Part M and Part 145 Airworthiness and Maintenance requirements.
- Must have high computer literacy skills, competent with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Access).
  
Education, Qualifications or Training

Essential
- Formalised EASA Part 145 and Part M training.
- Minimum 5 GCSE’s Grade C or above or equivalent academic qualification in Aviation related discipline (NVQ, BTEC, HNC/D).
- Compliant with ITAR regulations and eligible for UK security clearance.
- A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience within the aviation industry in a Planning role.
- Experience with SAP and an ERP software, for the use of Technical Records, Planning and Maintenance.

Desirable
- Helicopter maintenance support experience.
 
Key performance indicators
- Task completion on time, cost and compliance.
- Customer response time.

About you
- Self-motivated & Proactive - ability to recognise potential issues and apply remedial action before raising concern or affecting operations.
- Methodical with acute attention to detail.
- Trustworthy, Reliable, Enthusiastic and Flexible.
- Ability to prioritise workload effectively in a high pressure environment.
  
Additional requirements
- Due to the nature of this position you will require DBS Security Clearance and be eligible for SC clearance. 
- Applicants must meet any/all requirements of Export Compliance Regulations

This company is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
 
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