Part-145 Production Planning Engineer (Aviation)

Part-145 Production Planning Engineer (Aviation)

£35,000 - £40,000 + Generous Annual Leave + Enhanced Pension Scheme + Life Assurance + Employee Cash Plan + Pay and Role Progression + Electrical Vehicle Scheme

Location: Stansted

Are you an experienced Aviation Engineer looking to establish yourself in a central role of the UK's largest FBO, earning a great salary with a generous benefits package?

This company has built market dominance within the UK aviation industry over thirty years. This SME has built upon a foundation of high standards and expectations to become the most successful jet modification company in the UK - looking to expand their client base and always offer the best service possible.

This role will see the successful applicant accountable for the production of accurate maintenance work packages and the management of complex maintenance and modification projects in accordance with company processes and procedures. The suitable individual will demonstrate strong PC user skills and good presentation and interpersonal skills.

The Role:

1. Manage aircraft maintenance and modification projects to protect the critical path.
2. Communicate with customers at a professional level in relation to maintenance input planning ensuring that the requested work scope is received, understood, and translatable into a tangible work package.
3. Produce work packages in line with the customers' requirements to ensure access, spares, tooling, manpower, and third-party service requirements are identified, ordered, and available prior to scheduled aircraft downtime.
4. Communicate with approved third-party vendors for the arrangement of services to ensure their attendance and time estimates fall within the requirements to maintain the critical path.
5. Coordinate Part-21 Design Organisations to engineer and support customer requests for aircraft modification, ensuring documentation meets the requirements of EASA/Foreign NAA to allow implementation under company approvals.
6. Prepare and chair internal pre-input review meetings with Commercial, Engineering, and Logistics departments in line with company milestone requirements.
7. Coordinate acceptance of aircraft into maintenance.
8. Identify and resolve critical path issues which could affect the aircraft input schedule.
9. Provide our customer with updates on the project progress on a daily basis during aircraft maintenance.
10. Review and complete the aircraft library, e.g., Technical Log, Deferral Log, etc. during an input and upon release to service.
11. Generate documentation and support certifying staff through the return to service stage of aircraft maintenance input.

The Person:

1. Proven experience in aviation maintenance, operations, CAMO, or manufacturing.
2. Demonstrable experience of project management within an engineering department.

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We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates. The salary advertised is a guideline for this position. The offered remuneration will be dependent on the extent of your experience, qualifications, and skill set.

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