Job Title: Production Planning Engineer
Location: Stansted
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary/Rate: Annual Salary
Role Conditions
- Working Monday to Friday, 08:00 – 16:30
- Overtime paid at 1.5 times hourly rate
- 29 days holiday including bank holidays
- Nationally recognised training provided and career development opportunities
- Company uniform provided and all necessary PPE
- Employee assistance programme
About the Role
On behalf of our client, a leading organisation in the aviation industry, we are currently recruiting for a Production Planning Engineer. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic environment with a strong focus on safety, compliance and technical excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Support in production and management of maintenance and modification projects
- Accountable for production of accurate maintenance work packages and the management of complex maintenance and modification projects in accordance with processes and procedures
- Manage complex aircraft maintenance and modification projects to protect the critical path
- Communicate with customers to maintenance input planning, ensuring the requested work scope is received, understood and translatable into a tangible work package
- Produce work packages in line with the customers’ requirements to ensure access, spares, tooling, manpower and third-party service requirements are identified, ordered and available prior the aircraft scheduled downtime
- Communicate with approved third-party vendors for the arrangement of services to make sure their attendance and time estimates fall within the requirements to maintain the critical path
- Coordinate Part-21 Design Organisations to engineer and support customer requests for aircraft modification, ensuring documentation meets the requirements of EASA/Foreign NAA to allow implementation under company approvals
- Prepare and chairs internal pre-input review meetings with Commercial, Engineering and Logistics departments in line with company milestone requirements
- Perform pre-input review meeting with customer to discuss incoming defects and customer specific requirements
- Coordinate acceptance of aircraft into maintenance
- Identify and proactively resolves critical path issues which could affect the aircraft input schedule
- Review and completes the aircraft library during an input and upon release to service
- Provide assistance to Document Control with review of completed paperwork and rectification of issues arising
- Generate documentation and supports certifying staff through the return to service stage of aircraft maintenance input
Candidate Requirements
- Demonstrable experience of Production Planning within a Part 145 Maintenance Organisation
- 5 years of experience in aviation maintenance, operations, CAMO or manufacturing
- Strong PC user skills (Excel, Word, MS Project)
- Demonstrate good presentation and interpersonal skills
- Experienced in the usage of Wings ERP or equivalent
- Right to work in the UK
Why Work with JMC Aviation?
At JMC Aviation, we specialise in aviation recruitment across engineering services and training to airlines, MROs and OEMs, leasing and asset management companies, and component overhaul organisations. With deep industry knowledge and a global network, we match the right talent to the right roles — contract or permanent.
- Industry-leading compliance support
- Fast onboarding and documentation assistance
- Dedicated recruitment consultant
- Placements across the globe
- Extensive experience and knowledge of the aviation sector
How to Apply
Submit your up-to-date CV, along with copies of right to work documents to samuel.fawkes@jmc-aviation.com.
Compliance & Equal Opportunities
JMC Aviation is committed to equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace. All applicants will be considered based on merit, qualification, and business need, regardless of age, gender, nationality, or background. We operate in full compliance with global aviation recruitment regulations.
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