SP GLOBAL CONSULTING LTD
Aircraft Maintenance Planning Specialist
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Aircraft Maintenance Planning Specialist – 12 Month FTC
Location: North East UK
Contract: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Sector: Aviation / Aerospace / Defence
We’re supporting a specialist aviation organisation looking to appoint an experienced Aircraft Maintenance Planning Specialist to join its engineering operation in Teesside.
This is a hands-on planning role supporting a significant aircraft base maintenance programme, ensuring maintenance activity is properly planned, resourced and sequenced to meet aircraft delivery and operational availability requirements.
You’ll sit at the centre of the maintenance operation, working across Engineering, CAMO, Procurement and Stores to turn approved maintenance requirements into practical, executable plans.
The Role
You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining detailed maintenance plans, ensuring the people, parts, tooling and resources required to complete aircraft maintenance are available at the right time.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Developing detailed aircraft maintenance schedules against delivery milestones and operational priorities
- Translating approved maintenance scopes into structured work packs, task sequences and executable plans
- Planning labour, skills, tooling, materials and other resources required for maintenance activity
- Working closely with Procurement and Stores to ensure parts and materials are available to schedule
- Monitoring maintenance progress and identifying constraints, risks and critical-path issues
- Developing recovery plans where delays, shortages or emerging maintenance requirements impact the programme
- Working with CAMO / Maintenance Planning teams to ensure alignment with the approved Aircraft Maintenance Programme
- Supporting aircraft throughput and availability across both base and operational maintenance activity
- Maintaining accurate planning, configuration and maintenance records
- Supporting continuous improvement across planning and maintenance processes
- Ensuring planning activity remains compliant with relevant aviation regulations, including CAA Part 145 and associated organisational procedures
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What We're Looking For
You'll ideally have previous experience within aircraft maintenance, aviation MRO or maintenance production planning, with a good understanding of how work moves through a regulated maintenance environment.
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We're particularly interested in candidates with:
- Aviation production planning, maintenance planning or MRO experience
- Good working knowledge of CAA Part 145
- Experience planning resources, manpower, materials and maintenance schedules
- Familiarity with aircraft maintenance planning systems or MRO software
- Strong coordination and stakeholder-management skills
- The ability to identify potential programme constraints before they impact aircraft delivery
Experience within military aviation, defence aerospace or mixed regulatory environments would be particularly useful, as would exposure to CAMO, AMP control, MAA or EASA requirements.
Why Consider It?
This is a strong opportunity for an experienced aviation planner to join a complex aircraft engineering environment and have a direct impact on maintenance delivery and aircraft availability.
The position is initially offered as a 12-month FTC, with a competitive salary and wider benefits package.
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