Aircraft Consultant

MPI are looking for an Aircraft Consultant with the Maintenance Production Planning to be based at Stansted Airport. This role is deemed Out of Scope IR35. Hours/shift pattern Monday – Friday 0800hrs – 1630hrs.

Rates: Limited Company £32.00 per hour, all hours worked.

About the Role - Coordinate maintenance and contributes to securing that maintenance work is optimised to achieve on time delivery, on budget and Customer Satisfaction. Thus improving the performance of the department.

Responsibilities -

• Manages complex aircraft maintenance and modification projects to protect the critical path.
• Communicates with customers at a professional level in relation to 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 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 engineer and support customer requests for aircraft modification, ensuring documentation meets the requirements of EASA/Foreign NAA to allow implementation under company approvals.
• Performs pre-input review meeting with customer to discuss incoming defects and customer specific requirements.
• 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.

Qualifications -

• Technical university degree preferred (or equivalent).
• Demonstrable experience of project management within an engineering environment.
• 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.
• Time flexibility.

If you are interested, please contact MPI for a more concise job description