Aircraft Maintenance Planner (Base Maintenance) (Contract)

A progressive maintenance and repair organisation are looking to recruit a Aircraft Maintenance Planner (Base Maintenance) for their Luton facility.

This is an initial 3 month contract working Monday to Friday.

Working directly within the operator's Maintenance Planning Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring rectification of Defects and out of phase maintenance is carried out.

The responsibilities of the Aircraft Maintenance Planner (Base Maintenance) will include;

• To ensure that all appropriate legislative and Company Procedures are adhered to in order to ensure that the Company remains compliant and aircraft airworthy.
• To actively identify the requirements, review and create the Base check work-scope for the Base checks
• Ensure company systems accurately reflect the planning status of all scheduled and unscheduled tasks falling under the responsibility of this role.
• To ensure that the aircraft management systems accurately reflect both maintenance activity and the true aircraft status
• To control the content and distribution of the Workpackage to the sub contracted CAMO (AMES)
• In co-ordination with the Material planner, ensure that the material and the resource requirements for the base inputs are timely identified, progress chased and provisioned for the check
• To co-ordinate all planning activities in relation to the base inputs with the various stakeholders
• To comply with known and notified health and safety requirements, communicating them to others when appropriate
• To ensure that company and contracted customers' policies are complied with
• To ensure that all maintenance requirements are accomplished and data fed back to the relevant records department
• To accept other duties and responsibilities as may reasonably be requested by the Planning Manager

The Aircraft Maintenance Planner (Base Maintenance) will require the following attributes;

• Computer literate- Intermediate to advanced level knowledge and experience in using MS Office suite especially MS Excel
• Prior experience in AMOS will be an advantage
• Ability to create plans, clear understanding of the various stakeholders in the Base Planning process and the requirements of the same
• An understanding and demonstrable ability of efficient hangar slot utilisation
• An understanding of costs in relation to Planning of maintenance
• Proven Experience in an airline aircraft engineering Base planning function
• Knowledge of EASA, FOCA and CAA regulations
• A good understanding of an Airline Maintenance Programme
• Proven ability to communicate with suppliers and customers alike

The estimated start for this contract is immediate.

Role: Aircraft Maintenance Planner (Base Maintenance)
Location: Luton

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