PLANNING OFFICER ENGINEERING

Job Purpose: The job exists to supervise and administer the program and
management functions within the Maintenance / Operational Planning, Aircraft
Scheduling and Reliability PM/DISG 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, engineering data integrity and standards 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 Planning and Records 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 on-going 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 PM?s, receives at least ‎2 interim reviews within a defined PM
window & 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. Provide
coordination for the functional section for all overhauls Agencies, MRO, Third
Party and Lessor Reporting / Phase Out activities managed by that section.
Support assigned Section / Department by publishing reports and supporting
documentation as requirement to enable accomplishment of adhoc requests,
customer support and standard operating procedures. - Maintenance Planning -
To supervise the continuous development of configuration management of the EK
fleet and engines guaranteeing the implementation of all compliance criteria
within the Maintenance and Repair Organizations (MRO) system for all
maintenance task inputs. - Ensure the creation and auditing of all
configuration elements relating to task card composition, component model,
serial number and the compliance forecast that enables accurate planning and
provide the value chain audit that ensures the compliance of the EK fleet. -
To supervise the continuous development of EK Aircraft Maintenance Program
(AMP) and EK Supplemental Maintenance Program (SMP), Component Monitoring
Document (CMD) and Engine Maintenance Program for all aircraft types and
engines within Emirates fleet. Review and issue amendments/revisions on a
periodical basis to meet Airworthiness Authorities? legal requirements,
manufacturer recommendations and company requirement and evaluate the impact
of technical documents and Engineering Orders (EO) for all aircraft and
component modifications. Create comprehensive plans for the implementation of
modification programs. - Ensure that all airworthiness issues pertaining to
aircraft maintenance tasks are reflected in the Emirates Engineering operating
system, in order to control all maintenance tasks and ensure compliance with
the frequencies and guidelines laid down by the approved documentation. - To
supervise the Maintenance Task Operating Plan (MTOP) to define the strategy
for equalized maintenance check segments, ensuring the most cost effective
method of distributing tasks based on local constraints and feedback received.
- Operational Maintenance Planning - Ensure creation and applicability of all
maintenance work packages and work scope requirements from the Ultramain
system to ensure the on-going 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 activities in the Base Ops and Base Light
Production Planning teams, to ensure aircraft compliance is maintained through
workpack creation and control. - Aircraft Scheduling - Create and publish
amendments 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. - Reliability, Performance & DISG -
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,
ETOPS parameters, Engine and APU performance data, Pireps data processing and
component unscheduled data processing on a daily basis in the reliability
information system workspaces. Ensure daily processing of Data Integrity
review requirements based on standard procedures - Ensure that data in the
workspaces are verified and highlight anomalies in data to the originating
departments for appropriate corrective actions and save all verified data in
the reliability information system. Responsible for executing data integrity
functions that are related to ensuring how all engineering data can be kept
valid in databases considering data standards as per engineering and
regulatory requirements. - Responsible for Upload of Flight hours, log pages,
delays, component removal etc for ISDP data.Track component monitoring
document revision and update reliability report and liaise with Maintenance
program for revision update. Assist in Technical review meeting delays/PIREPs/
Components trend analysis, TRM agenda analysis - Conduct Delay trend analysis
for top ‎10 ATA?s and highlight to RE. Carry out Severity Index calculations
based on Delays, incidents, cancellations, IFSD, diversion, ATB, GI and
highlight concern areas. Prepare the Data Integrity trends and analyse the
information in conjunction with engineers. Publish and keep all records
updated on the central repository. - Prepare the Weekly Fleet Performance
report, monthly Executive dashboard and the weekly OEM reports. Maintain the
distribution lists for all such Reliability and DISG periodic reports and
ensure distribution as per procedures. - Conduct Delay/Incident/DISG trend
analysis for significant items and highlight to Engineers. Create backup data
on CD-ROM every ‎6 months for all critical reliability / DISG data for system
and components from network and or local hard drives.
Qualifications & Experience: Engineering.Planning : : ‎12 Years schooling or
equivalent with ‎5+ years experience OR a Degree in Engineering (Aeronautical /
Mechanical / Electrical / Avionics) with ‎2+ years of experience. Experience
required in Maintenance Planning / Aircraft Scheduling or other associated
Technical Support Organisation, with at least ‎2 years? experience
coordinating/supervising a team. Knowledge/Skills: Must be fully conversant
with Aircraft Documentation and Records including AMM, IPC, Work Packages and
Maintenance schedules. Must have: An understanding of Aircraft / Power Plant
Systems and Components. A sound knowledge of computer applications (e.g. MS
Office) Knowledge & use of Airline / MRO M&E Data Management & Digital
Documentations Systems is preferred Knowledge & experience in the application
& administration of Aircraft Regulatory & Legislation requirements associated
with Airworthiness Compliance & Management. Safety Sensitive Role: No
Leadership Role: No
Salary & Benefits: Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary
and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on
flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information
about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website
www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what's it like to live and
work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle
section.Join our growing team and enjoy a competitive remuneration package,
discounts on flights and hotel stays.