✈︎Passionate about aviation. ✈︎Enjoy helping others grow ✈︎Leadership skills
These are the qualities Air Wisconsin Airlines is searching for a Maintenance Planning Manager to join our department in Appleton, WI. We are looking for someone with excellent leadership skills who wants to help develop our Maintenance Planning department. At Air Wisconsin, we’re passionate about aviation and growth. We have over 58 years proven experience and we want someone as excited to work for a commercial airline as we are!
Responsible for ensuring an efficient and compliant Maintenance Planning operation to include the planning/scheduling of aircraft maintenance checks, inspections and tasks defined by the FAA approved aircraft maintenance program(s).
Job Functions:
- Promotes and fosters a safe and secure operating environment.
- Serves as a liaison between maintenance line operations, the FAA, SOC and other AWA departments to ensure the coordination of scheduled maintenance and scheduled aircraft maintenance planning are accomplished.
- Accountable for coordinating scheduled tasks, workload and tracking in compliance with the approved FAA Maintenance Program and integrity of scheduled maintenance activities.
- Communicates changes in the Maintenance Planning schedule to SOC if/when they directly affect daily flight operations.
- Ensures all departmental and Company policies and procedures for completion of assigned duties are compliant with FAA, OSHA and EPA regulations.
- Accounts for assigned budgetary responsibilities and prepares monthly budget variance reports.
- Provides a variety of reports related to scheduled maintenance requirements to senior leadership and executive leadership.
- Responsible for tasks defined by the FAA approved aircraft maintenance program(s) includes Airworthiness Directives, Engineering Orders, Deferred Maintenance Items, Minimum Equipment List and Configuration Deviation List items, and call-back items.
- Coach, mentor, and lead team as required to ensure top tier performance.
Required Competencies:
- High level of judgment and initiative to ensure compliance with appropriate regulations, policies, procedures and verify, review, and enforce applicable processes and procedures.
- Ability to handle confidential information.
- Ability to communicate fluently in English.
Education & Experience:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree required or equivalency of 3-5 years of Aircraft Maintenance Planning experience.
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite, Internet courseware and development tools.
- Two to three years of supervisor experience.
- Good working knowledge of aircraft maintenance program development and application.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to perform detailed work with numerical data and make arithmetic computations rapidly and accurately.
Preferred:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Aviation Maintenance/Management or Engineering or 3-5 years’ experience in a FAR 121 Air Carrier environment with emphasis on planning control functions.
- FAA Airframe and Powerplant License
- Multitasking Skills
- Problem Solving
- Analytical Ability
- Interpersonal Skills
Benefits offered to you:
- A comprehensive benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, and health & wellness incentives.
- Flight benefits on our partner carrier(s).
- Relocation assistance
- Paid holidays, sick leave and vacation.