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Provide strategic leadership and oversight of engine planning and engine maintenance activities, including across MRO and SPP environments. Accountable for developing engine maintenance plans, which includes forecasting, mitigating risks, and partnering with internal teams to provide streamlined processes, minimal disruption, and alignment with business requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the forecasting, planning, and monitoring of all engine maintenance requirements.
- Partner with Engine Management teams to review and identify gaps, risks and opportunities to implement mitigation strategies to prevent any operational disruptions.
- Lead the development of long-term plans into the schedule for maximum operational and cost benefit, while holding teams accountable for execution.
- Manage scenario modeling for improvements to SPP or operations.
- Partner with strategic planning teams to build allotments in appropriate locations and adjust with changing fleet plans.
- Responsible for monitoring on-wing defects, advising stakeholders of risks and adjusting plans accordingly to meet priorities.
- Develop efficient processes within Engine Planning to provide clear direction to SPP teams with communication and priorities.
- Partner with all internal and external stakeholders and provide timely reports for status and or changes.
- Ensure TRAX transactions within the Engine Planning team are accomplished for compliance and financial tracking.
- Lead and develop a team of Engine Planners, manage workloads, and align resources with operational priorities.
- Responsible to effectively manage/develop and align resources to achieve ACM objectives.
- Liaise amongst Planning teams to align priorities and identify and communicate risks.
- Develop, implement and monitor Key Performance Indicators to track discrepancies and action accordingly with mitigations.
- Provide routine weekly and monthly performance reporting, as well as ad hoc reports required to support the business.
- Develop and implement audit processes to ensure accuracy of engine forecast.
- Define and document processes, including process maps, maintain control manual to reflect most current processes.
- Partner with Engineering, MRO vendors, Scheduling and Planning teams to align priorities and resolve issues.
- Provide insight to the Engine Maintenance teams on the forecast and recommendations for improvements.
- Represent Engine Planning in operations meeting and provide status of engine availability/recovery plans as required.
- Foster collaborative working relationships with various teams.
- Accountable to escalate to proper stakeholders when required.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field, or equivalent working experience.
- 5+ years of experience in engine maintenance, or related operational environment.
- Experience leading teams; unionized environment experience is an asset.
- Strong knowledge of ERP systems (e.g., TRAX) and MS Office.
- Excellent problem-solving, negotiation, organization and communication skills.
- Airline operations and maintenance knowledge an asset.
- Experience in an engine shop environment an asset.
- Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
Conditions of Employment:
Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment. Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.
Linguistic Requirements
Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.
Diversity and Inclusion
Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.
Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.
