Maintenance Planner in Laurencekirk

Overall Purpose of Role: Working in the Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation (CAMO), coordinating and scheduling major maintenance tasks to ensure fleet availability. Sharing and communicating plans with stakeholders, and gathering data to feedback into future planning.

Responsibilities:

• Working to ensure maximum availability of serviceable aircraft for contracted flight operations through organisation of when aircraft will be sent to the maintenance organisation.
• Providing an overview of fleet status for CAMO, 145 and Flight Ops management which shows current hours, location, serviceability, deferred defects, and time remaining to major maintenance.
• Developing a 24 month base maintenance plan showing when and where aircraft will have scheduled major impact maintenance work performed.
• Working with Flight Operations and Commercial teams to ensure that the plan factors in forecasted flying activity and shows the window where aircraft are predicted to run out of hours.
• Working closely with the Part 145 Maintenance Planner and Base Maintenance Manager to ensure that the plan is deliverable.
• Ensuring that the plan captures aircraft import/export activity, lease return, and major modification programmes as needed.
• Ensuring that the plan leaves reasonable long to medium term allowance to prevent disruption from emergent/unscheduled work significantly impacting delivery of the plan.
• For aircraft scheduled on the base maintenance plan, developing scope of work that includes: Scheduled requirements to ensure a good balance between base maintenance capacity and work that would otherwise be required to be completed on the line; Deferred defect rectification; Airworthiness directives, service bulletins and modifications as required.
• Working closely with the Part 145 Maintenance Planner, Base Maintenance Manager, CAMO Engineers and Chief Engineers to ensure that the scope of work is deliverable.
• Developing a plan for tracking scheduled maintenance tasks across each fleet group that require advance planning to limit the impact to Flight Operations.
• Working closely with the Part 145 Maintenance Planner, Base Maintenance Manager and Chief Engineers to ensure that the plan is deliverable and aircraft are positioned as required.
• The plan must provide information to assist management in making urgent decisions on aircraft movements between bases.
• For modification programmes, airworthiness directives, service bulletins, etc. developing an implementation plan to carry them out as quickly as practical and in the most efficient way possible.
• Working closely with the Part 145 Maintenance Planner to ensure that required parts, tools and data are available.
• Monitoring the performance of Part 145 for the purposes of adjusting future plans and to provide CAMO and Part 145 Management with information to aid strategy and decision making.
• Turn around time for aircraft major inspections compared against the planned time for the input, taking into account mitigating factors such as supply chain issues, or major unscheduled defects.
• Robbery rates.
• Defect rates.
• Cancelled work.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Good standard of education including Maths and English.
• Experience: Prior maintenance planning experience is strongly preferred, especially from an aviation environment. Alternatively, a candidate with experience of the aircraft maintenance environment, or aircraft continuing airworthiness management who has excellent administrative skills would be considered.
• Skills: Excellent communication and organisation skills, needs to be able to negotiate needs between departments, balance competing interests, and communicate plans effectively, while adapting to changing circumstances. Strong IT skills, especially an ability to use Microsoft Excel to manipulate data and format spreadsheets. Also ability to use Microsoft Word to prepare reports and format documents. Familiarity with maintenance planning software strongly preferred, especially SAP and/or RAMCO. Awareness of aviation regulatory environment. Ability to work well within a team, showing professionalism and approachability. Sound understanding of aircraft maintenance programmes preferred. Understand the need for integrity and the importance of safety culture.

Equal Opportunities: Bristow Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran/ex-military status.

Military-Friendly: As a Military-Friendly employer, we are dedicated to providing meaningful employment opportunities for military veterans. This commitment is embodied by our Managed Military Pathway Programme and our Silver Award under the Armed Forces Covenant, which collectively demonstrate our support for veterans and reservists as they transition to civilian careers.

Disability Confident: We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and take pride in creating and maintaining environments that are inclusive and respectful. As well as offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum advertised requirements, we also invite applicants to advise us of any reasonable adjustments, at any stage of the application or hiring process, by contacting hr.sharedservice@bristowgroup.com