Director of Planning and Heavy Maintenance

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About PSA

PSA Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines, offers unparalleled opportunities for growth and professional development. We value teamwork, diversity, and inclusivity and strive to create a safe, respectful, and happy work environment for our more than 4,000 employees. Our company culture, known as The PSA Way, is our foundation for operation and fosters stability, growth and a focus on the future while always placing safety at the forefront of everything we do. We are driven in our goals and achievements, eager to be better. We are reliable to one another and accountable for our actions. And we are caring in our daily interactions, with teammates, colleagues, and customers. Join our team to enjoy comprehensive benefits, including travel privileges on the American Airlines global network, so you can explore new destinations and create unforgettable memories with family and friends.

Benefits

PSA offers the benefits you expect from a company focused on excellence. All eligible team members enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Travel privileges on the American Airlines global network
• A generous vacation plan designed to let you enjoy your travel perks
• 401(k) with company match
• American Airlines Group (AAG) profit-sharing and bonus opportunities
• A choice of three health plan options, all with nationwide coverage with the UnitedHealthcare Choice Plus network
• Premium dental coverage
• Vision plan options provided, including a plan that covers both glasses and contacts every year
• Benefits navigation services, including finding a doctor, scheduling an appointment, understanding your medical bills, and free second opinion services
• Access to 24-hour virtual urgent care services
• Family planning and fertility treatment
• LGBTQ friendly services including gender affirming care, assistance finding knowledgeable providers, and family planning
• Company-paid Life and AD&D Insurance, Short-term and Long-term Disability, and supplemental life insurance options for spouses and dependent children
• Flexible Spending Accounts for both Health Care and Dependent Care services
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Program providing a range of services, including 5 free in-person sessions with a health care professional
  
  

Responsibilities

Job Summary

The Director of Planning and Heavy Maintenance is responsible for creating and directing an industry leading maintenance planning & scheduling team. The business is set to grow, creating the need for more robust planning and the opportunity to develop the function in line with the needs of the business. This is an important leadership role within the PSA Airlines Maintenance team, with a strong hands-on delivery component. This role requires a production-based mindset able to design, implement and standardize new scheduling platforms. Must be both a creative and strategic individual who will drive our imperatives within a collaborative culture.

Job Responsibilities

• Leadership, commitment, and promotion of safety as a core value of the maintenance organization.
• Develop and implement organizational strategic initiatives that achieve performance-based results.
• Develop forecasting and resource planning capability within the organization to deliver end to end planning, forecasting, and scheduling in order to meet aircraft maintenance needs.
• Provide accurate forecasting and analyzing data against budget figures on a weekly and/or monthly basis to provide supporting information to the Director of Maintenance and Director of Supply Chain to optimize maintenance operations production and inventory management.
• Provide leadership to team with overall responsibility to develop short and long-term aircraft maintenance plans (HMV), to drive maintenance performance, HMV Check performance, planning and execution efficiencies and aircraft availability for the network. This includes aircraft engines, APU’s and Landing Gear.
• Responsible for providing leadership to direct staff to ensure the various teams incorporate continuous improvement methods to efficiently support maintenance production and the daily operation.
• Responsible for developing team members for succession planning.
• Responsible for developing a Lean Continuous Improvement mindset and skillsets and deploying Lean in applicable areas of opportunity.
• Identify and implement strategies to reduce overall cost.
• Manage short term and long-term maintenance production capacity and scheduling.
• Develops and fosters strong cross-divisional relationships while maintaining an open line of communication with the maintenance stations, maintenance control and other work streams.
• Effectively and collaboratively work with Supply Chain on long/short term inventory situations.
• Develop and manage reliable forecasting tools and KPI's that deliver high accuracy at monthly, weekly, daily levels, which will provide relevant inputs to the maintenance production and supply chain teams, to support business decision making.
• Ensures all key performance metrics are achieved regarding flight arrival, departure and completion performance while also meeting company cost initiatives.
• Responsible for ensuring all required maintenance items that are scheduled and issued within time limit intervals specified by the Continued Airworthy Maintenance Program (CAMP) and approved by the FAA.
• Create, update, and maintain departmental procedures in the General Maintenance Manual (GMM) while ensuring all processes are adhered to.
• Strong ability to collect and analyze data for failure analysis and trending to improve team and operational performance.
• Strong experience working with MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) vendors and contracts.
• Technically savvy and able to tactically dissect maintenance requirements to guide team members in creating schedules that maximize productivity.
• Develops and executes production and capacity plans that will enable the organization to meet on time performance objectives.
• Maintains close communications with maintenance operations regarding manpower/equipment requirements, availability, capacity, backlog, and priorities to ensure realistic and achievable schedules and loading parameters are continually maintained for the business.
• Ensure airline maintains an adequate spare count level per established plans and forecasts.
• Responsible for the Company's Security and Safety Management System (SMS) and associated Safety Risk Management and Safety Assurance outputs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  

Position Specifics

Required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Maintenance Management or related field.
• At least five years experience within the last eight years leading teams within a Part 121 airline maintenance planning/scheduling organization.
• Effective leadership skills with a collaborative style.
• Must be able to effectively communicate and work closely with various cross-functional groups in a matrix environment across multiple locations.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office software.
• Ability to speak/read/write in English.
• If hired, must be able to demonstrate that you are authorized to work in the US.
  
  

Preferred

• Current FAA Airframe and Powerplant certification.
• Experience using Omega (AMES) software.
• Experience using Maintenance and Engineering (M&E) software.
  
  

Additional Information

Delegation : In absence, responsibilities delegated to VP of Technical Operations

Authorities: None

Supervisory Responsibility: This is a supervisory position

Work Environment: This job operates in an airplane. This role will occasionally use standard office equipment such as computers, telephones, photocopiers, facsimile machines and filing cabinets.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. This is largely a sedentary role; however, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb up and down stairs; lift weight up to 25 lbs; use hands to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

Security Clearance: All employees are required to pass the fingerprint-based criminal history records check (CHRC) per 49CFR1542.209 as well as a pre-employment drug screen.

AAP/EEO Statement: PSA Airlines is an equal opportunity employer; qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designated 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.