Line Maintenance Planner - Vista America

The Line Maintenance Planner (“LMP”) in Columbus, OH is crucial to the scheduling and management of line maintenance events.  The LMP receives strategy, parameters and guidance to schedule and define line maintenance events for the organization’s fleet of aircraft.  The LMP plays a critical role with respect to the efficient scheduling of line maintenance inputs and minimizing aircraft downtimes to maximize aircraft availability.

Jet Select is an affiliated operating partner of Vista in the US - the largest charter group in private aviation and the world’s first private aviation ecosystem, integrating a unique portfolio of companies offering asset-light solutions to cover all key aspects of business aviation.  

Vista has a global reach with operational hubs across the globe and an expert workforce of over 4,000 aviation professionals. Vista's fast-paced growth and its relationship with the best partner operators open the door to lifelong career opportunities across the group - to create the best service in business aviation, in every region in the world. 

Responsibilities:

The Line Maintenance Planner shall have the following responsibilities:

• Responsible for short-range forecasting, applying agreed strategies for the planning of scheduled line maintenance, rectification of MEL Class C and D items, preventative maintenance and any additional maintenance tasks.
• Seeks to optimize the scheduling of aircraft downtimes to ensure maximum aircraft availability while ensuring all require maintenance is performed in a timely manner.
• Schedules all line maintenance events, ensuring that the selected maintenance providers have the approvals, skilled trades, labor, tooling and capacity to perform the work package in the agreed timeframe.
• Works closely with maintenance service providers to achieve shortest aircraft downtimes.
• Participates in the daily critical review of all scheduled with Planning Team to ensure that line planning reflects the approved maintenance program requirements and demands of the operation, and that short-notice changes are optimally integrated into the schedule.
• Liaises with MCC Controllers to schedule line maintenance events including the rectification of MEL Class C and D items.
• Ensures maintenance tracking software is kept up-to-date and accurate.
• Ensures that assigned work packages are built that make efficient use of aircraft downtime, while ensuring that all due / forecast scheduled checks and tasks, Airworthiness Directives, Service Bulletins, modifications, repairs, component replacements, etc. are performed.
• Ensures line maintenance packages are developed that utilize the time available between flights and overnight to increase aircraft reliability and availability.
• Executes agreed fleet campaigns and the timely performance of Airworthiness Directive actions and mandatory Service bulletin compliance.
• Ensures assigned all work packages contain the latest revision of the applicable task cards, checks, instructions, drawings, etc. required by the maintenance service providers to perform the work package as efficiently as possible.
• Builds work packages in the maintenance tracking software and reviews to ensure the accuracy and completeness of work packages.
• Works closely with Procurement Team to ensure that all required parts, materials and tooling are available and delivered to the contract maintenance service provider for each scheduled work package.
• Works closely with Technical Services Team providing critical feedback on the effectivity of the approved maintenance programs and reliability efforts.
• Collaborate with the Technical Services Team to support the integration of new Maintenance Program revisions and support development of tailored bridging programs if/when required when Maintenance Program revisions are released.
• Collaborate with Manager of Line Maintenance Planning to develop more efficient and effective processes.
• Coach and mentor maintenance planners and supporting team members.
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Key Attributes of the Line Maintenance Planner:

• Proven experience in line maintenance planning.
• Effective communicator within their own team, the operation and other business units.
• Demonstrates the ability to work cross-functionally to develop the best solutions.
• Demonstrated skills in developing efficient and effective maintenance planning processes.
• Extensive knowledge of aircraft maintenance programs, maintenance tracking software and aircraft maintenance planning
• Capable of successfully delivering results and managing deadlines in a demanding environment.
• Possess a solid understanding of aircraft maintenance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School graduate
• 2 years of maintenance planning experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Holder of FAA A&P license or equivalent
• 5+ years of maintenance planning experience.

 Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401k program with company matching and no vesting period
• Paid Time Off
• Life Insurance and Long/Short term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Career progression

The affiliated operating partners of Vista are equal employment opportunity employers. The affiliated operating partners of Vista do not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. The affiliated operating partners of Vista also prohibit harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.