About this position: 

A Global Aviation Company is looking for a Maintenance Planner for their facility based in Shropshire. The Maintenance Planner is responsible to provide short/medium term planning requirements and Material Planning requirements to support aircraft scheduled maintenance inputs.

Job Responsibilities:

• To ensure that all appropriate legislative and Company Procedures are adhered to in order to ensure that the Company remains compliant and aircraft airworthy
• Liaison with Operations Controllers, Technical Records and the Maintenance Team to ensure a common understanding of capability and capacity
• Entry of Technical log utilisation data onto 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 Maintenance planning calendar with ‘Provisional’ maintenance dates
• Review material requirements against provisional maintenance dates for allocated aircraft. Raise reservations/purchase requisitions for missing materials
• Raise aircraft scheduled maintenance orders
• Review of prepared work specifications and work packages for maintenance inputs to ensure that aircraft downtimes are minimised
• Confirm material requirements are available for the scheduled maintenance events for allocated aircraft
• Ensure that the support and prepared documentation provided by Planning meets the needs of scheduled maintenance inputs
• Reset Maintenance tasks in MIS
• Other such reasonable tasks as directed by AHUK management team in support of the MFTS operation      

Experience Required:

• Must have knowledge of EASA regulations relating to Part M and Part 145 Airworthiness and Maintenance requirements
• Knowledge of MAA RA’s
• Experience with SAP and ERP software, for the use of Technical Records, Planning and Maintenance
• Must have high computer literacy skills, competent with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Access)
• Formalised EASA Part 145 and Part M training
• Human Factors training undertaken
• Previous experience in a Maintenance Planning role
• Experience of ERP systems