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Maintenance Operational Planner-Contractor

Airbus
United Statespart_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Jun 2025

About the role

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Staging/Kitting Specialist (Contract) to join our team based in Columbus, MS.

Perform activities associated with the ordering, shipping, and movement of materials and tools required to support maintenance aircraft activities, in accordance with contractual customers’ request.  Perform activities associated with planning and reporting of resources (material availability, shortages, statuses, deliveries, etc.) and communicate with other supporting departments to ensure internal and external material logistic demands are satisfied.

This is a Contract Position

Meet the team:

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

Your working environment:

On the eastern border of Mississippi you’ll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It’s here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

How we care for you:

  • Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

Primary Responsibilities:

1.       Operational Logistics:  40%

  • Prepare and submit material request in CAMMS/LMMS to responsible contact.

  • Enter material receipts, material returns, and issue materials in CAMMS/LMMS to appropriate contact.

  • Issue materials from AHI warehouse as required.

  • Receive parts from warehouse and verify quantities and documentation.

  • Create delivery notes for outbound shipments.

  • Research and troubleshoot incoming and outgoing material logistic issues.

 2.   Configuration and Control:  40%

  • Control and maintain Government owned inventory/property for materials removed from aircraft.

  • Control and maintain CLS owned inventory and coordinate with LUH Programs on reorder points.

  • Control, inventory, and maintain maintenance material delivered with the aircraft (loose equipment, S.B. kits, etc.)

  • Coordinate and track material deliveries to the maintenance floor.

  • Meet core material return metrics and provide material list as required.

  • Control and execution of all outbound material shipments including tools, cores, inspections and testing.

 3.       Organizing and R

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