Technical Planning Engineer
Job Description
Job title: Technical Planning Engineer
Company: VistaJet
Job description: Job Profile
Vista Members’ fleet comprises over 300 light, super mid-size, long-range and ultra-long-range aircraft. The Maintenance team provides a robust regional support network for Vista’s growing fleet, working across 7 maintenance sites with one of the leading base maintenance facilities in the world, taking care since 2004. The Technical Planning Engineers ensure that all workpacks created are in accordance with appropriate legislation, Authority and Operator requirements and that optimal planning and input to pre-engineering within maintenance capacity is achieved, in conjunction with all stakeholders.
Your Responsibilities
- Manage ‘pre-input’ process, including but not limited to organisation of ‘pre-input’ meetings as required with relevant stakeholder(s).
- Run daily status meeting in conjunction with Customer Support Manager and Aircraft Manager.
- Create project plans for maintenance inputs which identify key sequences, milestones and critical path tasks.
- Ensure that project timelines are updated to accurately reflect on-check progress and skill type forecasts for each input.
- Ensure all requirements are identified and pre-loaded/ordered including Maintenance Data/Spares/Tooling.
- Ensure that ‘job-cards’ are effectively sequenced daily to meet delivery targets and that they are staged appropriately for complex tasks.
- Ensure accurate manhour targets are updated in the templates and work packs to reflect changes in performance/working practices/maintenance requirements.
- Continually review systems and procedures to improve aircraft downtimes.
- Liaise with 3rd party contract companies including but not limited to Part 21 and working groups in conjunction with aircraft input, and also OEMs as appropriate to agree technical solutions.
- Be a focal point for Technical Support for allocated aircraft in work including repairs, mods, queries, tooling and specialist information.
- Assist with technical aspects of VAM quotations as required and directed.
- Carry out any other reasonable task in line with the role as requested by the Technical Services Manager.
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
- Educated to a minimum of ‘A’ level standard or equivalent.
- Previous demonstratable experience working in an aircraft maintenance, production planning or airline environment.
- Technical Support experience in aviation and able to evidence knowledge of airworthiness regulations (EASA).
- Able to demonstrate product knowledge of the Bombardier Series aircraft.
- Able to show the ability to make a technical assessment and decision with consideration to recognised standards using engineering knowledge.
- Excellent communication skills – verbal and written.
- Able to understand technical drawings, and to understand and write technical text.
- Able to demonstrate diligence with a high attention to detail.
- Good organisational and planning skills.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Willing and able to perform as part of a team in order to achieve delivery targets.
