Planning Officer Engineering - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - The Emirates Group

The Emirates Group

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1 week ago

Posted by:

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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Description

Job Purpose:

Job Purpose:

The job exists to supervise and administer the program and management functions within the Operational Planning, Aircraft Scheduling, Aircraft LifeCylce Management and Reliability sections for all aircraft types, engines and components.

Carry out the execution of technical auditing, analysis, verification, regulatory and performance reporting of key airworthiness tasks, reliability information, ensuring that the Emirates fleet is maintained to the required standards of quality and airworthiness as defined by the regulatory authority and Engineering Procedures Manual.

Job Outline:

Generic:
Supervise and provide training and developmental opportunities to team members to facilitate knowledge dissemination, skill & process improvements, procedural awareness, ensuring elimination of inefficient methods, enhanced productivity, and implementation of departmental improvements /system changes. Administer updates for KPI / Error measurement processes & continual improvement initiatives. Provide supervision and guidance on a daily basis for all direct reports and team members & provide ongoing update to subordinate personnel based on fleet / destination developments and Corporate / Departmental financial & business performance.
Ensure team members adhere to the Time and Attendance policy, challenge underperformance and that every team member has a fully developed MyBC review and is provided with continual objective feedback to ensure developmental improvements in line with Operational business needs & career enhancement opportunities.
Act as deputy for immediate supervisor and actively seek improvement opportunities within the departments and interface business units to create and deliver proactive beneficial changes to the group.
Specific

Operational Planning:

Ensure creation and applicability of all maintenance work packages and work scope requirements from the Ultramain system to ensure the ongoing maintenance and modifications required to ensure compliance of the Emirates fleet in the Line, Base and Heavy Maintenance environments.
Ensure all work packages are analysed for load capacity balance and are fully resourced and estimated for manpower and materials for handover and acceptance by the production and production support teams.
Ensure that all work packages are compliant with all regulatory requirements.
To supervise the day to day planning activities in the Base Ops and Base Heavy and Line Support, to ensure aircraft compliance is maintained through workpack creation and control. To create work packages to the same standard for outsourced maintenance events.

Aircraft Scheduling:

Create and publish amendments to both the Emirates Operating Plan, (issued by Commercial Planning) in order to identify and ensure availability of aircraft downtime required for various maintenance checks and provide statistical reports to concerned sections within Engineering for their advance resource / capacity planning and necessary action.
Provide feedback to Commercial Planning and if necessary conduct negotiations/ suggest alternate solutions to accommodate Engineering requirements within the Operating Plan and the Monthly Aircraft Movements within the Scheduling system to optimise aircraft utilisation and establish standard rules and guidelines for use by Planning Controllers in the preparation of Daily Aircraft Allocation and Quarterly Maintenance Plans.
Review Daily Aircraft Allocation and Quarterly Maintenance Plan prepared by Planning Coordinators to ensure optimum utilisation of maintenance check frequencies, compliance with legal limitations, proper staggering of maintenance inputs, inclusion of all relative aircraft registrations and accurate and error free information prior to dissemination within the Emirates network.
Implement all actions arising from AOG events and the daily morning Engineering briefing meeting providing solutions, coordination and active feedback on availability of maintenance opportunities within the aircraft allocation schedule and solutions relating to operation and maintenance requirements ensuring optimum aircraft utilisation and avoiding/ minimising operational and engineering disruption.
Cater for ad hoc requirements such as photoshoots and assigning specific aircraft to locations for publicity or media reasons as requested by Corporate Communications or other departments as necessary.

Reliability:

Responsible for collection of Reliability data for Systems / Components and verification of all data for accuracy and validity. Ensure that the reliability data collected is transformed to prepare and produce the Monthly Technical and Fleet Performance report or the Quarterly component report.
Ensure daily processing of Delays, Incidents, Flight hours and cycles data, Extended Twin Engine Operations (ETOPS) parameters, Engine and Auxilary Power Units (APU) performance data, Pireps data processing and component unschedule