Planning Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Prestwick; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading MRO company in Prestwick seeks a Planning Engineer to generate and control maintenance work packages for aircraft, ensuring compliance and efficiency. The role involves comprehensive planning, collaboration across departments, and requires extensive experience in aircraft maintenance, with tools like AMOS and OASES being advantageous. This permanent position offers a dynamic work environment with a commitment to employee training and development.

Benefits

Private Healthcare & Private Dental

Free Eye Tests & Vouchers Towards Glasses

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Referral Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Buy & Sell Annual Leave

Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Enhanced Loyalty Leave

3x Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in aircraft maintenance and production planning.
• Technical experience in aviation with knowledge of airworthiness regulations.
• Working knowledge of Aircraft Maintenance Planning desired but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Generate and control aircraft maintenance work packages ensuring compliance.
• Issue maintenance packages for production staff according to regulations.
• Liaise with internal departments for clear work instructions.

Skills

Aircraft maintenance

Production planning

Knowledge of airworthiness regulation

Commercial awareness

Tools

AMOS

OASES

Rusada

Job description

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JMC Aviation are working with an MRO company based in Prestwick, looking to recruit a new Planning Engineer to join their team.

This client is an international line and base maintenance provider, operating a comprehensive level of support for commercial aircraft operators. As an independent MRO, they are able to adapt their approach to respond to rapidly changing requirements and provide services which include component repairs, overhauls, piece part manufacture, aircraft fuel tank repairs, aircraft maintenance, aircraft interiors and AOG support.

The company’s culture of being a friendly, dynamic team with a professional work ethic of continually nurturing talent, means that their employees’ ongoing learning and development is taken seriously with training support to widen skills and knowledge.

This is a Permanent Position based in Prestwick.

Monday – Thursday (8am – 5pm) and Friday (8am – 2:30pm).

Salary and Benefits

• 3x Life Assurance
• Private Healthcare & Private Dental
• Free Eye Tests & Vouchers Towards Glasses
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Referral Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Buy & Sell Annual Leave
• Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Enhanced Loyalty Leave

The Role

The primary purpose of this role is to shall generate and control aircraft maintenance work packages, ensuring regulatory compliance at all times.

Other Duties Involve

• Generating and issuing comprehensive maintenance packages of work for production staff in accordance with the relevant regulatory airworthiness requirements and departmental procedures
• Providing costings assistance to sales for hours review.
• Creating and maintaining master work cards/databases where required for specific projects, identify sub-contract requirements, spares and tooling.
• Liaising with internal departments as deemed necessary to provide clear and concise work instructions
• Assisting the Engineering Support Manager with the daily operation of the planning department
• Having commercial awareness of the impact that decisions can have to the customer and to the business as a whole
• Liaising with Safety and Compliance to ensure compliance with procedures and audits.

In order to be successful in this role the Planning Engineer will need to demonstrate the following skills and attributes:

• Extensive experience in aircraft maintenance and production planning
• Experience in MRO IT software such as AMOS, OASES and Rusada (preferred but not essential)
• Technical experience in aviation and able to demonstrate knowledge of airworthiness regulation
• Have a working knowledge of Aircraft Maintenance Planning (preferred but not essential)

If you think this is the role for you and you have the necessary skills and attributes, please apply today or contact JMC Recruitment for more details.

Please note that due to the high level of applicants we will only be contacting shortlisted candidates regarding this role.

For this opportunity JMC Aviation Ltd is acting as an employment agency.