Planning Engineer

Job description

Airbus Operations Limited

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2019 it generated revenues of € 70.5 billion and employed a workforce of around 134,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as one of the world’s leading space companies. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Job Description

Airbus – Brize Norton

Our Team at Brize Norton are on the UK Government’s critical personnel key worker list for ‘public safety and national security’, as the service that we provide is critical to the delivery of key defence outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our contract with the MOD states we will provide a continuous service to cover on a 24 hours, 7 days a week and 365 days a year to the Royal Air Force, to maintain and ensure airworthiness of their fleet of aircraft.

Our services include both direct and indirect functions which all work together to provide the airworthiness total service – including maintenance planners; licensed line maintenance engineers; technical services including structures and systems specialists; facilities management; security;  and health and safety etc.

Planning Engineer

A permanent opportunity has arisen for a Planning Engineer to join our Airbus A400M CAMO Services team at Airbus Support Centres UK based in RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.

Reporting directly to the CAW Manager you will be requires close liaison with the customer’s MilCAM and MRP Part 145 Line Maintenance organization on site, and with the Airbus and other external EASA Part 145 base maintenance organisations, to ensure contractual targets and service levels are achieved.

Tasks and Accountabilities

The Planning Engineer is responsible for:

·  You will provide a maintenance planning service, identifying maintenance task requirements for the A400M fleet and ensuring all tasks are packaged into work packs for execution by all internal or external base maintenance organisations.
·  You will responsible for planning offsite base maintenance inputs as required.
·  You will ensure all aircraft maintenance is controlled, planned and managed correctly to the relevant maintenance plans.
·  You will liaise and coordinate with FTAM to ensure the maintenance planning elements are included within the Integrated Through-Life Plan (ITLP).
·  You will liaise with Airbus DS UK Materials Supply and the relevant maintenance organisations, to ensure effective and efficient planning of all maintenance and modification requirements to ensure all tooling and manpower is brought together to support the accomplishment of the work pack.
·  You will liaise with suppliers, manufacturers, and service providers to ensure service levels are maintained.
·  You will be responsible for entering and maintaining A400M maintenance planning data in the customer's Ground Computer Information System (GCIS).
·  You will be responsible for managing projects and assignments as directed by the CAMO Services Manager.

Skills and Experience

·  Engineering Degree, EASA Part 66 Licence, or equivalent technical qualification. (Applicants who do not satisfy the qualifications, but can demonstrate adequate practical experience, may be considered)
·  Experience in a maintenance planning role.
·  Experience of the aircraft operational environment
·  Knowledge of aircraft maintenance programmes / task cards / work-pack / airworthiness directives and service bulletins
·  Knowledge of EASA Part M regulations
·  Knowledge of EASA Part 145 regulations.

The requirements of the role require you to hold a UK passport or a passport issued by a country with which A400M has an export control licence and be able to satisfy the security clearance requirements necessary for access to a UK military establishment, and work in a security sensitive environment

In return we can offer a competitive remuneration package; an ever growing list of company benefits including enhanced pay for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave and strong career development options across our transnational, market leading company.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

Please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with the Recruitment Business Partner who gets in touch if you are invited to interview. Examples of this may include (but is not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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.

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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.