Manager Maintenance Planning

Company

Horizon Air

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our managerial teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you. 

Role Summary

The Manager of Maintenance Planning is responsible for creating and executing the maintenance planning strategy for Horizon Air. This role leads and establishes priorities for the maintenance planning team and partners with M&E stakeholders to develop and execute a strategy that consistently delivers safety and compliance while optimizing resources to achieve operation objectives. 

Key Duties

• Lead team and establish priorities to deliver maintenance planning strategy that consistently delivers safety and compliance.  
• Make decisions and provide input on the long-term forecast for M&E that balances demand and capacity and support efforts to coordinate with key stakeholders (including SOC and Network Planning) on a strategic roadmap to ensure that M&E has the right mix of personnel, qualifications, tooling, parts, and workspace to achieve organizational objectives. 
• Responsible for establishing regular communications and touchpoints that ensure M&E leadership and relevant stakeholders have visibility to overall strategy, and to coordinate actions required to meet plan objectives. 
• Influence across M&E and coordinate efforts to ensure successful planning and execution for special projects and engineering efforts, including heavy maintenance vendors and aircraft modifications. 
• Responsible for developing and maintaining the procedures, systems & plans needed to accurately forecast future scheduled maintenance activities for all aircraft in the Horizon fleet. 
• Manage the activities of the Maintenance Planning department to ensure that production schedules are coordinated with the Operations division, Maintenance and Engineering (M&E) departments, and other Horizon organizations so that work may be accomplished as planned while providing aircraft to operate the flight schedule.  
• Develop and maintain the heavy maintenance visit plan in consideration of budget guidelines, aircraft allocation, or other parameters. 
• Develop and maintain a heavy vendor maintenance plan for the year in progress, then a two-year plan, complete with estimated labor hours, span time projections, and tail number assignments.  
• Oversee the work of maintenance planners to build-up work control packages for aircraft scheduled for Heavy Checks and the special project work from sources both within and outside the Maintenance Department.  
• Maintain knowledge of TRAX functions as they pertain to the planning environment and maintain and update forecasts with respect to the duty assignment. 
• Leverage technology to enhance department performance and productivity.  
• Develop people through effective performance management and ongoing feedback, focusing on fostering strategic and systems thinking, development of talent, and succession planning. 
• Shape culture of team through action, presence, and reinforcement of behaviors. 

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required  

• 5 years of maintenance planning or related maintenance operations experience. 
• 2 years of leadership experience. 
• Bachelor’s degree or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree. 
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook). 
• Ability to alternate between strategic, tactical, and operational priorities while working on projects and to quickly determine long/medium/short-term impact of proposed solutions and goals.  
• Detail oriented and highly organized, with the ability to execute on multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines and work independently with limited guidance in a fast-paced environment where flexibility is key.  
• Strong people skills and the ability to foster collaborative relationships with key stakeholders that drive mutually beneficial outcomes. 
• Excellent communication skills: verbal (both informal working teams and formal executive presentations), and in clear/concise written documents. 
• High school diploma or equivalent. 
• Minimum age of 18. 
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.  

Preferred 

• Working knowledge of airline Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) operations. 
• Proficient with systems used in aviation maintenance (TRAX, Vismaint, Tableau, etc.).
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