MANAGER BASE MAINTENANCE PLANNING

Manager, LINE/BASE Maintenance Planning

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) Continued Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO) is a team of over 120 people accountable for the continuing airworthiness of the aircraft fleet. It performs a wide variety of tasks including negotiating and managing supplier contracts, engineering, planning, and managing operations.

CAMO – Base Maintenance Planning Manager

We are strengthening our organization and are looking for a suitable person for a role of Base Maintenance Planning Manager.

As Base Maintenance Planning Manager you will be reporting to Head of Maintenance Planning. You will be responsible for ensuring that maintenance is planned in an airworthy, safe, and economical condition for SAS's fleet under restriction of the requirements imposed through European Aviation regulations and according to EASA Part-M, Part-CAMO, Part-145 and Ops.

Your responsibility is to manage base maintenance planning activities and ensure technical representation for base maintenance operations. You will lead a team of experts, that will deliver on all aspects of maintenance planning, from airworthiness control and monitoring, preparing maintenance work packages - including component and engine replacements, planning of individual maintenance tasks – consisting, but not limited to, of maintenance program tasks, airworthiness directives (AD), modification campaigns, deferred defects, to post-production activities.

Being successful in this role requires previous experience from commercial air transport, continued airworthiness management tasks, safety management system(s), and leadership of personnel and performance management. The knowledge of the nature of the operation and the fleet type(s) operated by SAS is beneficial. In the role you need to be able to collaborate with key stakeholders like Fleet Management, Network, Procurement, Engineering, Aircraft Maintenance Organizations and Operations Control Center.

Main tasks and responsibilities

• Ensure that maintenance is planned in an airworthy, safe, and economical condition in compliance with the regulations imposed through EASA Part-M, Part-CAMO, Part-145 and Ops and National Aviation Authority
• Employee responsibilities with annual performance reviews and development planning
• Perform process confirmation and development of planning procedures laid down in operation governing manuals CAME and CAME-P
• Participate in the preparation of the department and maintenance budget
• Participate in the maintenance service provider (AMO) tender processes and ensure the execution according to agreed terms
• Secure maintenance ground time for maintenance events
• Ensure that all maintenance is performed in accordance with the approved maintenance data
• Ensure the operational availability of aircraft fleet through strategic and tactical planning activities
• Ensure planning of deferred defects within set time limits
• Host and participate in governance meetings between stakeholders and sharemen
• Ensure development and timely updates of long-term maintenance visit plan
• Ensure maintenance package optimization in view of aircraft lease contract conditions and lifetime cost optimization
• Ensure proper functioning of all planning staff and related issues by assessments and continuing process confirmation.

Qualifications and experience

• Academic education – undergraduate degree from within an engineering field (BEng, BSc), or other relevant background from the aviation industry
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in an appropriate management position
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience within continued airworthiness management organization
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience within aviation industry, preferred from commercial air transport
• Experience of practical leadership with a minimum at a tactical level
• Experience in team leadership and development
• Practical experience of managing large contracts with suppliers and internal stakeholders, with associated budget processes and cost saving programs
• Practical experience of business transformations and change management
• Practical experience of working with AMOS maintenance information management system (MMIS)
• A high proficiency in English, both written and oral, a knowledge of a Scandinavian language is a benefit, but not required.

The person

We need our Base Maintenance Planning Manager to have relevant experience within the aviation industry related to continuing airworthiness, aircraft maintenance planning activities as well as the personal attributes which we have identified as critical to success.

You will thrive in this role if you perform at your best when you are intellectually and professionally challenged, and when you lead and inspire others to do the same. The collaboration with our people in other organizational units is the key to delivering tangible and lasting results so you will need to believe in and aspire to strengthening these collaborations to deliver tangible and lasting results. A strong desire to improve the competitive position of SAS and to contribute to SAS transformation to a cost-effective airline will be critical and the ability to relate to, manage and analyze complex situations while relating to SAS overall strategic direction will be necessary.

As a person you are dynamic, outgoing, have a high degree of drive, a pedagogic mindset and excellent communication skills.

This is how we make your journey at SAS matter:

Purposeful: We are heading into a future where change is never-ending, and the need to rethink and rebuild is too. A future of conscious thoughts and sustainable innovation. A future we make possible. We fly because the world is moving, and it needs our help to stay in motion. 
Flexible: Office, Home, Norway, Copenhagen – wherever you are, Scandinavia is your home and flexibility is at our core
Adventurous: We grow by making the world smaller. Discounted airline tickets providing you, your family and friends possibility to travel the world at great prices.
Personal: Ingenuity and creativity are central to our work, We offer an opportunity to work on many challenges and initiatives
Innovative: The restless pulse of our world offers endless possibilities to develop new customer solutions and new avenues for personal and professional growth. Working at SAS means contributing to and benefiting from a fast-paced, dynamic environment and playing a leading role by transforming aviation.
Ownership: Opportunity of bringing initiatives from ideas into end-point delivery