Maintenance Planner

**About our team...**

Airbus Helicopters is the world’s largest helicopter manufacturer and the company’s site at Oxford Airport is Britain’s civil helicopter hub.

AHUK is the MoD’s chosen provider of helicopters and maintenance for its Defence Helicopter Flying School (referred to as MFTS) located in RAF Shawbury (Shropshire) and RAF Valley (Anglesey).

**PLEASE NOTE - It is AHUK policy to require all applicants to demonstrate they have the right to remain and to work in the UK.**

**Description/Overall purpose of the Job**

**UK Military Flying Training System (Rotary Wing) Maintenance Planner, Shawbury**
**Reports to UK MFTS (RW) Planning/Operations Supervisor**
- The Maintenance Planner is responsible to provide short/medium term planning requirements and Material Planning requirements to support aircraft scheduled maintenance inputs.

**The main responsibilities of the post holder will be**:

- To ensure that all appropriate legislative and Company Procedures are adhered to in order to ensure that the Company remains compliant and aircraft airworthy.
- Liaison with Operations Controllers, Technical Records and the Maintenance Team to ensure a common understanding of capability and capacity.
- Entry of Technical log utilisation data onto the Maintenance system.
- Review of allocated Aircraft status reports on a weekly basis to ensure full maintenance programme compliance is maintained.
- Identify provisional maintenance dates for allocated aircraft based on projected utilisation and update the Maintenance planning calendar with 'Provisional' maintenance dates.
- Review material requirements against provisional maintenance dates for allocated aircraft. Raise reservations/purchase requisitions for missing materials
- Raise aircraft scheduled maintenance orders.
- Review of prepared work specifications and work packages for maintenance inputs to ensure that aircraft downtimes are minimised.
- Confirm material requirements are available for the scheduled maintenance events for allocated aircraft
- Ensure that the support and prepared documentation provided by Planning meets the needs of scheduled maintenance inputs.
- Reset Maintenance tasks in MIS.
- Other such reasonable tasks as directed by AHUK management team in support of the MFTS operation

**The post holder would ideally have the following Knowledge and Skills**:
**ESSENTIAL**
- Must have knowledge of EASA regulations relating to Part M and Part 145 Airworthiness and Maintenance requirements.
- Knowledge of MAA RA’s
- Experience with SAP and ERP software, for the use of Technical Records, Planning and Maintenance.
- Must have high computer literacy skills, competent with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Access).

**We require the post holder to have the following Education, Qualifications or special training**:
**ESSENTIAL**
- Formalised EASA Part 145 and Part M training.
- Human Factors training undertaken

**DESIRABLE**
- Academic qualification in Aviation related discipline (NVQ, BTEC, HNC/D).

**The post holder should have the following experience**:
**ESSENTIAL**
- Previous experience in a Maintenance Planning role.
- Experience of ERP systems.

**DESIRABLE**
- Knowledge of Airbus H135.
- Experience of Military Aviation.

**Key performance indicators**:

- Maintain aircraft availability levels of >98% at Shawbury (including deployments)

**Other requirements**:
**TRAVEL**
- Initial travel to Oxford to undergo training in AHUK process and procedures

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

**Company**:
Airbus Helicopters UK Ltd

**Contract Type**:
Permanent Contract / CDI / Unbefristet / Contrato indefinido

**Experience Level**:
Professional / Expérimenté(e) / Professionell / Profesional

**Job Family**:
Production Planning & Scheduling

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