Planning Engineer

Production Planning Engineer (MRO – Part 145) Permanent Monday – Friday (08:30 to 17:00) Stansted Airport Fixed Term Contract (15 Months) Client Overview: The client is a leading MRO Aviation company, who specialise in light & business jet aircraft. Role Overview: The Planning Engineer produces maintenance work packs and controls maintenance process from inception to client handover. Responsibilities: Accountable for the production of maintenance work packages and the management of complex maintenance and modification projects. Communicates with customers regarding maintenance input planning, ensuring that the requested work scope is received, understood and translatable into a tangible work package. Produces 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 to the aircraft scheduled downtime. Communicates 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. Coordinates Part-21 Design Organisations to Engineers and support customer requests for aircraft modification, ensuring documentation meets the requirements of EASA/Foreign NAA to allow implementation under company approvals. Prepares and chairs internal pre-input review meetings with Commercial, Engineering & Logistics departments in line with company milestone requirements. With customer to discuss incoming defects and customer specific requirements. Coordinates acceptance of aircraft into maintenance. Identifies and proactively resolves critical path issues which could affect the aircraft input schedule. Provides our customer with updates on the project progress on a daily basis during aircraft maintenance. Reviews and completes the aircraft library, e.g. Technical Log, Deferral Log, etc. during an input and upon release to service. Assist SBDM to best manage customers’ expectations. Experience & Qualification: Demonstrable experience of project management within an engineering environment. 5 years of experience in aviation maintenance, operations, CAMO. Demonstrate good presentation and interpersonal skills. Experienced in the usage of Wings ERP or equivalent.

Location: Stansted Mountfitchet, UK, GB

Posted Date: 7/14/2025