Production Planner Engineer at United Nigeria Airlines

Job Summary

• The Production Planning Engineer supports the maintenance organization in the production and management of maintenance and modification projects.
• The role is accountable for producing accurate maintenance work packages and managing complex maintenance and modification projects in accordance with UNA AMO processes and procedures.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage complex aircraft maintenance and modification projects to protect the critical path.
• Communicate professionally with customers regarding maintenance input planning to ensure requested work scopes are clearly understood and translated into actionable work packages.
• Produce work packages in line with customer requirements, ensuring access, spares, tooling, manpower, and third-party service requirements are identified and available prior to scheduled aircraft downtime.
• Liaise with approved third-party vendors to coordinate services and ensure timelines align with project requirements and critical path schedules.
• Coordinate with Part-21 Design Organisations to engineer and support customer aircraft modification requests while ensuring compliance with EASA/Foreign NAA documentation requirements.
• Prepare and chair internal pre-input review meetings with Commercial, Engineering, and Logistics departments in line with company milestones.
• Conduct pre-input review meetings with customers to discuss incoming defects and customer-specific requirements.
• Coordinate aircraft acceptance into maintenance.
• Identify and proactively resolve critical path issues that may impact maintenance schedules.
• Provide customers with daily updates on project progress during aircraft maintenance activities.
• Review and complete aircraft library documentation (e.g., Technical Log, Deferral Log) during maintenance input and release to service.
• Support the Document Control team with the review of completed paperwork and resolution of documentation issues.
• Generate documentation and support certifying staff through the aircraft return-to-service process.
• Continuously seek improvements to maximize productivity and minimize operational costs.
• Support the SBDM in managing customer expectations effectively.
• Perform any other duties within assigned capabilities as directed by the company.