Maintenance Planning Engineer

About the role

The Maintenance Planning Engineer plans, schedules, manages and coordinates scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities to keep the airline fleet and third-party aircraft airworthy. The role develops short- and long-term maintenance plans with the line manager and internal stakeholders, supporting safety, cost efficiency and dispatch reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Develop long- and short-term maintenance plans based on the Approved Maintenance Program and CAMO engineering documents.
• Run maintenance activity forecasting in the company MIS (AMOS) and create work packages, preloads, Gantt charts and support documents.
• Create scheduled and unscheduled line, base, workshop and third-party work packages and coordinate with stakeholders.
• Develop a maintenance capacity plan and manage maintenance activities against calendar, hours, cycles, costs and business needs.
• Produce monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly man-hour forecasts and reports.
• Give feedback to CAMO engineering to improve maintenance documents and report completed maintenance events within the approved timeframe.
• Coordinate with Engineering Procurement for tools, spare parts and components before planning maintenance.
• Schedule airworthiness directives, service bulletins and modifications, and plan defects with the MCC department.
• Provide technical evaluation for aircraft lease/sublease processes and coordinate with Engineering, Finance and Legal.
• Analyse completed major checks (including "A" check) and monitor task completion against engineer requests.

Required profile

• University degree in Aircraft/Aeronautical/Aerospace/Industrial Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years in aviation, 4 as a Planning Engineer or similar; Airbus A320 experience preferred.
• Knowledge of MPD, MRB, AMP, CAMO, CAR-M, CAR-145, PART 21 and company manuals such as TPM.
• Experience with aircraft planning systems, procedures and regulations, and with EASA Part 145 and Part 21 Subpart M.
• Project management certificate or equivalent experience; cost control, budgeting and quality assurance training is an added value.
• Fluent English and excellent written and verbal communication.

Required skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Office and MRO systems.
• Teamwork in a high workload, fast-changing environment with strong time management.
• Problem-solving, cost-oriented approach and attention to detail.