Senior Engineer Production Planning

Emirates Airlines - Other locations; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading airline in Dubai is seeking a skilled Production Planning Manager to oversee and enhance production activities. You will manage all planning processes to ensure timely maintenance operations while collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate will have at least 10 years of experience in engineering/planning and hold a degree in a related field. Expect competitive, tax-free salaries alongside excellent benefits, including travel discounts and healthcare packages.

Benefits

Tax-free salary

Generous travel benefits

Healthcare package

Life insurance

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years experience in Engineering/Planning.
• Degree in Aeronautical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering.
• 6+ years in a supervisory role in Production Planning.

Responsibilities

• Direct and manage all production planning and control activities.
• Monitor progress and issues, providing status reports.
• Manage creation of a robust demand plan for all planned work.

Skills

Aircraft systems knowledge

People management

Leadership skills

MS Office proficiency

Education

Degree in Engineering

Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Licence

Tools

ULTRAMAIN

Job description

Job Purpose

The Production Planning department at Emirates Engineering plays a pivotal role in getting all the required maintenance done in the most efficient manner. Utilizing advanced planning tools, in depth technical reviews and collaborating closely with various teams, we ensure smooth maintenance operations, minimizing downtime and maximizing aircraft availability. Our focus is on maintaining high safety and efficiency standards while adapting to the airline’s dynamic requirements.

In this role you will:

• Direct and manage all production planning and control activities in order to ensure accomplishment of all planned and non-routine activities on time, in budget and to the quality and safety standards expected.
• Work in close and continuous co-ordination with workshops, aircraft maintenance, planning sections and materials management to improve the processes, efficiency and productivity, reduce turn round time, material, labour costs and wastage, optimise work allocation, deployment and utilisation of all resources (manpower, materials, equipment and facilities).

• Responsible to monitor progress, problems and issues to be able to provide day to day Status Reports on work progress to all stakeholders, highlighting any significant deviations from the production schedule, so as to discuss them in the Daily Production Meetings, and take prompt and effective actions as necessary including remedial actions, emergency planning, etc to mitigate these issues.
• On a periodic basis, analyse actual production performance against the standards and plans, in order to highlight variances, causes and effect, and make recommendations to improve the future planning integrity on the one hand, and for the concerned sections to take necessary remedial actions. Manage the implementation of remedial actions to ensure continuous improvement and efficiency.
• Manage the creation of a robust demand plan for the delivery of all planned work as notified by the Airline CAMO and Materials Management in conjunction with the 145 Management Team. Ensure this plan covers both short, medium and long-term demands and takes into account any possible demand driver from across the business. Work with all business units to identify and forecast these demands.
• Accountable for the delivery of the PPC function in assigned area within Budget, ensuring the team have a cost conscious mind-set.
• Responsible for working with the 145 management team in assigned area to reduce the cost of maintenance across all categories; Labour, Materials & other costs and where possible mitigate cost by generating revenue from 3rd parties.
• Manage the Safety and Compliance of assigned PPC teams deliverables, ensuring adherence with EPM's and Work Instructions.
• Manage the Performance Management System and ensure all assigned staff are actively engaged in achieving 100% of the planned Objectives and Development Plans. Accountable to ensure team members are developing and providing the department with a benefit from the training and development effort. Where team members are not delivering or performing as required responsible for taking necessary actions to correct this.
• Aircraft Maintenance:
  • Manage the delivery of Production Planning activities for Aircraft Maintenance working with the hangar managers to ensure the service is meeting agreed SLA?s. Direct and guide Production Planning and Control staff in following efficient processes in all planning and control phases of the maintenance input, including; work pack production, downtime estimation, workflow planning, check control and non-routine re-planning, materials coordination and work pack closure and control.
• Workshops:
  • Manage the delivery of Production Planning activities for Overhaul Workshops working with the shop managers to ensure the service is meeting agreed SLA's. Ensure the planning process is delivering SSS parts to Aircraft Maintenance per agreed timelines though appropriate planning and prioritisation of available resources in the shop. Simultaneously ensure that minimum stock levels are maintained for components as agreed with Materials Management by balancing workloads for the production team.
  • Identify opportunities for new capability development and create business plans to support this capability development and investment.

Qualification

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Qualifications: Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)
• Experience: Engineering/Planning 10+ Years
• Degree in Engineering (Aeronautical, Mechanical, Avionics, Electrical & Technical Engineering) Or Holder of Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Licence - GCAA/EASA Type Licence on EK fleet Type
• Experience in Aircraft maintenance Experience of which 6+ years must have been in a supervisory/managerial role in Production Planning at an Airline or 3rd party Maintenance Facility.
• Good knowledge of aircraft systems, power plant and components.
• Thorough understanding of Aircraft Regulatory requirements and Aircraft Maintenance documents.
• Knowledge of MS Office applications i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of ULTRAMAIN is an advantage
• Excellent people management skills.
• Leadership Role: Yes
• Safety Sensitive Role: No
• Leadership Role: Yes

Salary & benefits

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers