Senior Director of Planning & Heavy Maintenance

About Sun Country Airlines

We’re not your average airline. We’re agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.

With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlines provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a great and growing company, as a Senior Director of Planning & Heavy Maintenance you’ll enjoy these benefits and more:

• Director Bonus & Equity
• Director Travel Rewards Program
• Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
• PPO and high deductible health plans
• Health savings accounts (HSA and FSA)
• Dependent Care
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Senior Director of Planning & Heavy Maintenance Overview:

The Senior Director of Planning & Heavy Maintenance is responsible for all long- and short-term forecasting for airframe and landing gear maintenance. Coordinating with stakeholders to execute engine and external customer maintenance demands while maximizing fleet utilization and production capacity is a key deliverable. This role is accountable for ensuring compliance with respect to assigned work and regulatory requirements in all aspects of planned or unplanned maintenance: line, hangar, heavy, overhaul. The Senior Director of Planning is responsible for creating and maintaining a culture of safety, compliance, and profitability.

Essential roles and responsibilities of the Senior Director of Planning & Heavy Maintenance:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Plan and assign work as due / requested in all phases of aircraft utilization
• Line, Hangar, Heavy, Overhaul
• Monitor upcoming work packages and ensure assignment in line with allocations available
• Measure fleet / gear utilization to maximize time between maintenance intervals
• Prevent unplanned or time-driven out of schedule events through a robust and achievable plan
• Control and monitor daily system wide maintenance operation through assigned work
• Trend execution to plan (attainment / adherence) to ensure revisions needed are incorporated
• Act as project management office for airline related to aircraft acquisition and retirement
• Identify and analyze maintenance problems and implement appropriate corrective actions
• Participate in selection of contract agencies for aircraft, engine, and component maintenance
• Monitor maintenance and cost performance of vendor maintenance
• Develop long-term and strategic maintenance planning - including participation in aircraft procurement decisions, facility planning, resource requirements, and maintenance budget forecasting
• Forecast and establishment of aircraft maintenance check schedules
• Oversee maintenance planning and Line workload scheduling
• Assist in the selection of contract agencies for outside engineering and MRO maintenance
• Manage RFP Process for maintenance functions when appropriate
• Review and provide input to aircraft leases
• Conduct all tasks in a safe and efficient manner complying with all local, state, Federal safety and health regulatory requirements, programmatic standards, and with any internal policies and procedures identified by Sun Country Airlines
• Any other duties assigned by management

Classification: Full-time, exempt
Working Location: This position is open in Minneapolis, MN

Supervisory responsibility: Manager Planning & Manager of Aircraft Acquisitions

The qualifications we are looking for in the Senior Director of Planning & Heavy Maintenance:

• Ten or more years of experience in large transport aircraft planning
• Three to Five years of supervisory experience within a maintenance organization in planning
• A&P License
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Ability to effectively communicate, both verbal and written
• Strong management and people skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize and organize effectively
• Need keen attention to detail and excellent communication skills
• Self-driven with a strong sense of urgency, demonstrates initiative and adapt to changing priorities

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Aviation Management

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, 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. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands or finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Additional Notes:

Must be able to obtain SIDA badge

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed 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.

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