Aircraft Maintenance Planner

About the role

The Aircraft Maintenance Planner manages and coordinates aircraft scheduling, maintains aircraft forms and records, and oversees quality of maintenance actions to ensure compliance. The role acts as the scheduling focal point and works closely with Operations, Maintenance Supervision and the Production Superintendent.

Key responsibilities

• Develop operational and maintenance schedules for assigned aerospace vehicles, engines and support equipment into long-range, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily plans.
• Inform the Production Superintendent and Maintenance Supervision of maintenance capability, problem areas and adherence to production schedules.
• Coordinate aircraft and equipment utilization, sortie rates and flying hours with Operations, and run the day-to-day aircraft Plans and Scheduling office in line with AFI 21-101.
• Maintain aircraft forms and records in the management information systems, and draft and submit aircraft/engine management and inventory reporting reports.
• Prepare weekly, monthly and yearly reports, process readiness documents, and administer the aircraft configuration status accounting program.
• Monitor aircraft configuration status, weight and balance and inventory data, and assist in preparing the Monthly Maintenance Plan.
• Log support equipment custody records, aviation armament equipment, aircraft inventory records and technical directives, and perform in-process inspections.
• Perform quality management oversight of maintenance actions, detect negative trends, develop corrective action plans and brief pilots and crew on functional check flights.

Required profile

• Internal Quality Auditor certification passed.
• FAA Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) license.
• At least four years of experience in plans, scheduling and documentation functions.
• At least three years of T6 aircraft experience.
• U.S. citizenship preferred.
• Strong communication, leadership and personnel management skills.

Required skills

• Familiarity with the Maintenance Information System (MIS) to retrieve and input data.
• Proficiency in personal computers, including MS Office.
• Ability to work day, swing, night and weekend shifts.