Aircraft Maintenance Planner - Now Hiring

Position Summary

Responsible for all planning, coordination, and scheduling activities applicable to aircraft scheduled maintenance events while minimizing downtime and costs. Ensures all mandated maintenance compliances are achieved within time constraints in accordance with Scheduled Maintenance Requirements and FAA approved Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance programs.

Essential Functions

• Adhere to General Work Requirements.
• Creates, maintains, and publishes annual maintenance plan that meets operational needs while providing maximum aircraft availability.
• Provides 7-day, 30-day, 60-day and annual maintenance forecasts to the Director of Maintenance and applicable management personnel as required.
• Acts as a single point of contact for coordination to ensure aircraft requiring maintenance tasks are properly planned for and communicated with third party maintenance providers.
• Ensure quick response time and delivery for any modified planning requirements due to additional work scope, engineering changes and/or miscalculated or shop and planning errors.
• Runs and reviews maintenance due reports creates and distributes scheduled maintenance work order requirements for completion.
• Ensures aircraft scheduled for out-sourced maintenance are positioned timely as required into third party vendors.
• Performs additional tasks as specified in the General Maintenance Manual.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Director of Maintenance

Key skills and competencies

• Working knowledge of corporate/ business aviation current practices and procedures.
• Strong technical background in aircraft maintenance.
• Must have a positive attitude and be able to handle changes and make sound decisions.
• Able to communicate and interact in a positive, professional manner.
• Able to work on multiple priorities or projects simultaneously and keep them progressing to completion.
• Computer skills necessary to operate word processing, email, and web-based applications.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
• Ability to work with others, including people from other departments to problem solve and achieve common goals in a participative manner.

Million Air Dallas Team Member Traits

• Critical Thinking – Adapts to changes quickly and effectively. Has the ability to analyze information and integrate diverse sources of knowledge in solving problems.
• Entrepreneurial – Self-starters that have the capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage their position successfully and help the company grow.
• Coachability – Humble; acknowledge strengths and weaknesses and take feedback well. Ability to self-diagnose and translate into an actionable solution.
• Intellectual Curiosity – A strong desire to learn new concepts, seek to understand and ask thoughtful questions.
• Own Your Success – Consistently achieve personal and professional goals.
• Brand Champion – Positive promoter of the Company and the Brand.
• Polished and Professional – Carry yourself in a courteous, respectable and appropriate manner.
• Passionate – Have a love for aviation, the customer experience, and doing the right thing.

Minimum Qualifications

• Three years or more experience in the technical area of aviation
• Comprehensive knowledge of maintenance planning processes to include proposal analysis and invoice analysis.
• Basic knowledge of applicable Federal Aviation Regulations.

Additional Desired Qualifications

• A&P Certification
• Previous experience in Part 121,135 air carrier or Part 91 corporate aircraft operations, or Part 145 Repair Station.

Physical Requirements

• Majority of work is completed in a normal office work environment and aircraft maintenance hangar environment.
• Physical demands that may require a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (i.e., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) telephone.
• Physical demands may include walking, carrying, reaching, standing, and stooping.
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, or pulling up to 25lbs.

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