Senior Production Controller - Technical Operations

Overview

Responsible for overall aircraft flow and paperwork accountability including complete event preplanning, aircraft induction and release process, daily flow and accountability ensuring aircraft is on track, and post check reporting. Liaise with multiple departments both internal and external, including vendor support companies to resolve issues and maintain aircraft flow. Resolve head count requirements to maintain required production levels. Report and analyze aircraft material costs.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing, implementing and managing overall aircraft check flow:
  • Develop long range plans for upcoming maintenance events
  • Daily management and workflow of aircraft or shop workloads to optimize resources
  • Building task assignments for oncoming shifts
  • Paperwork accountability and regulatory compliance
  • Status reporting and issue resolution
  • Forecasting and planning for necessary headcount
• Pre-induction Preparation And Post Check Analysis
  • Communications with multiple support departments to ensure required resources are available to maintain necessary production
  • Complete preplanning and detailed flow of event staged in manageable and logical sequence
  • Compile, analyze, and report on check performance
  • Cross event reporting and analysis
• Manage Support Shop Resources And Workload
  • Compile, analyze, and report on check performance
  • Maintain regulatory compliance of maintenance documents

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Aviation, management or operations management experience
• At least 3 years aviation experience
• FAA Airframe & Powerplant License
• Proficient in MS Office applications
• Strong data analytics skills
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact at all levels (including executive) and team with all internal and external business partners
• Ability to handle simultaneous projects and adapt to a fast-paced, changing environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of relevant work experience
• 5+ years of aircraft maintenance and production control experience
• Heavy aircraft maintenance planning experience
• Working knowledge of SCEPTRE
• Understanding of industry applicable process improvement and LSS (Lean Six Sigma)