Maintenance Operations Planner

Responsibilities

• Analyze and conduct scheduling and workload planning to ensure maximum efficiency and full compliance with maintenance requirements.
• Monitor, forecast and coordinate the scheduling of short-range maintenance requirements on aircraft.
• Effectively and efficiently, utilizing company computer systems to identify maintenance aircraft requirements and assigned/capable overnight stations ensuring the timely compliance.
• Maintain aircraft status and station operations and coordinate routing/rerouting aircraft to facilitate any operational irregularities while maintaining the integrity of the maintenance plan and established company performance objectives.
• Coordinate and communicate all "day of" operational changes affecting the maintenance plan, resolve conflicts between the maintenance and the daily operational schedules.
• Provide constant oversight of the short-range maintenance plan advising the Supervisor and Maintenance Planning department of any irregularities, and dispatch coordinators of any routing of any conflicts affecting the maintenance schedule.
• Balance station nightly workload; coordinate with Base Stations on overnight work plan, ensuring scheduled maintenance optimizes station capacity and capabilities.
• Cookordination with internal, functional departments to ensure parts, material, tooling and manpower are available for the work to be scheduled.
• Cookordination with OCC personnel for ferry or repositioning of scheduled maintenance aircraft.
• Create, review, and execute daily work orders to the required maintenance bases via electronic planning platform.
• Work closely with MOC & Liaison Engineering personnel in tracking and scheduling fault/deferred maintenance items such as Minimal Equipment List (MELs) and Configuration Deviation List (CDLs).
• Provides daily turnover communication to fellow team members of critical tasks and items of importance affecting the operation.
• Ensure all specified policies, practices and procedures are complied with.

Requirements

• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• Strong analytical and computer skills with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to speak/read/write in English.
• If hired, must be able to demonstrate that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
• Preferred: College degree or equivalent amount of work experience - two years' experience in aircraft maintenance. scheduling/planning/programs or related field.
• FAA Airframe and Powerplant certification.