Maintenance Production Planner - 12 month FTC

Draken Europe; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension matching 12%

Bonus incentives

Discounted PMI

Electric car scheme

Tech vouchers

Wellbeing programmes

Job summary

Draken Europe is seeking a Maintenance Production Planner for a 12-month FTC at Teesside. You will translate maintenance scopes into detailed schedules, ensure resources, and align with AMP and CAMO requirements to keep base maintenance on time.

This role collaborates with engineering, CAMO, procurement and stores to secure parts, manage risks, and drive recovery actions while maintaining compliance with CAA Part 145, MAA and ISO quality standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in aviation production or maintenance planning.
• Strong knowledge of a CAA Part 145 environment and maintenance flow.
• Experience managing resource planning, materials coordination and schedule delivery.
• Familiarity with maintenance planning systems or MRO software.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work under pressure.
• Knowledge of CAMO functions and AMP control.
• Experience in military or mixed-regulation environments (MAA, FAA, EASA).
• Understanding of Safety Management Systems (SMS) and quality frameworks.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001/14001/45001/27001 standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed maintenance schedules aligned to aircraft delivery targets and priorities
• Translate approved work scopes into structured work packs and sequences
• Ensure availability of labour, skills, tooling, and materials
• Coordinate with procurement and stores to secure parts
• Track progress against plan and identify risks
• Drive recovery actions to address delays and shortages
• Liaise with CAMO Maintenance Planning for AMP alignment
• Support aircraft throughput and line operations availability
• Maintain accurate planning records and configuration data
• Contribute to safety, quality, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure planning activities comply with CAA Part 145, MAA, and MOE requirements

Skills

Aviation planning

CAA Part 145 knowledge

Resource planning

MRO software familiarity

Stakeholder engagement

Prioritization under pressure

CAMO knowledge

AMP control

Regulatory environments (MAA/FAA/EASA)

SMS & ISO awareness

Job description

Maintenance Production Planner - 12 month FTC

• Maintenance Production Planner - 12 month FTC

The Role

Maintenance Production Planner

Location: Teesside

Hours: Full-time 37 hours | 12 month fixed term contract

Draken believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12% matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.

About the Role

Draken is recruiting for a Maintenance Production Planner – 12-month FTC to support the delivery of the L159 Base Maintenance Programme.

This is a key role within our engineering function, responsible for turning approved maintenance work scopes into clear, deliverable plans. You will ensure that all activities are fully resourced, sequenced, and ready to execute—supporting both base maintenance output and ongoing line operations.

Working closely with engineering, CAMO, procurement, and stores, you’ll play a critical role in keeping aircraft maintenance on track, on time, and compliant.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed maintenance schedules aligned to aircraft delivery targets and operational priorities


• Translate approved work scopes into structured work packs and task sequences in line with Draken policies and procedures


• Ensure the availability of labour, skills, tooling, and materials to support maintenance activities


• Coordinate with procurement and stores to ensure parts are available when and where needed


• Track progress against plan, identifying risks, constraints, and critical path impacts


• Drive recovery actions to address delays, shortages, and emerging issues


• Liaise with CAMO Maintenance Planning to ensure alignment with the approved Aircraft Maintenance Programme (AMP)


• Support aircraft throughput, ensuring base maintenance output enables line operations availability


• Maintain accurate planning records and configuration control data


• Contribute to safety, quality, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives


• Ensure all planning activities comply with CAA Part 145, MAA (where applicable), and company MOE requirements

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

• Proven experience in aviation production planning, maintenance planning, or MRO operations


• Strong understanding of a CAA Part 145 environment and maintenance flow


• Experience managing resource planning, materials coordination, and schedule delivery


• Familiarity with maintenance planning systems or MRO software


• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills


• Ability to manage competing priorities and work under pressure


• Knowledge of CAMO functions and AMP control


• Experience in military or mixed-regulation environments (MAA, FAA, EASA)


• Understanding of Safety Management Systems (SMS) and quality frameworks


• Familiarity with ISO standards (9001, 14001, 45001, 27001)

Our employee values

Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.

At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect.

We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications.

In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.

About Us

Whether it is adversarial support, electronic attack or customised rotary-wing training, we offer the most accurate and advanced readiness training in the industry. Our vast, differentiated fleet, cutting edge hardware and experienced instructors are engaged to help your mission take off.

Being ready is not only a matter of when. But where. We provide services in the UK, US and across the NATO countries. Making sure that our allies can manoeuvre around defeat and prepare to prevail.