Maintenance Planner/Aircraft Router

Company

Alaska Airlines

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, 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 Maintenance Planner & Aircraft Router role is responsible for performing aircraft operational routing and systematic maintenance planning in support of a safe working-environment, to ensure the flight and maintenance operations are coordinated with the Operating Divisions, Maintenance & Engineering, and other divisions at Alaska Airlines (AS).

Key Duties

• Maintains strict standards of safety and compliance—this position has the responsibility, authority, and decision-rights to stop the operation (ground aircraft) for any safety or compliance related issue.
• Plans, schedules, and decides work priorities encompassing all areas of aircraft maintenance.
• Minimizes aircraft downtime and maximizes schedule reliability by planning system-wide aircraft maintenance in response to changes in the operation.
  • Analyzes aircraft change requests.
  • Plans ground time for extended maintenance actions.
  • Plans labor hour workloads and balances facility capacity and capability.
  • Coordinates maintenance activities with operational groups in response to routing, scheduling, or planning revisions.
• Manages operational aircraft swaps and recovery routing to maintain optimal system performance.
• Takes initiative to develop solutions to expeditiously facilitate the urgent completion of Airworthiness Directives, Service Bulletins, Fleet Campaign Directives, and Engineering Orders.
• Leads daily conference calls--coordinating with Maintenance Control, Materials/AOG desk, Line Managers, and Inspection.
• Supports line maintenance operations by balancing station workload, establishing task specific priorities, allocation of hangar capacity, and developing contingency plans for aircraft towing/remote operations.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 2 years of experience in the areas of maintenance planning, aircraft routing, operations, business analytics, or aircraft and engine maintenance.
• Bachelor’s degree, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• Strong computer skills--advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook).
• Effective written and verbal communication and negotiation skills.
• Proven ability to make sound analytical decisions in a real-time, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently and achieve results with limited oversight or guidance.
• Able and willing to work weekends, holidays, and non-standard shifts.
• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Airline industry experience.
• Maintenance planning experience.
• Knowledge of aircraft maintenance procedures and FAA regulations.
• Computer applications experience with TRAX, Visops, Vismaint, Aerostrat, Tableau, Microsoft SQL.
• FAA Airframe and Powerplant certification.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.

Starting Rate

Salary Range

$76,400 -- $114,600 / year

Bonus

Salary Details

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

 

Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.

Total Rewards

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

 

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Quarterly and annual bonus plans
• Generous ho