Planning Support Specialist

Kia ora!

About the Role:
Air New Zealand is seeking a skilled Aircraft Maintenance Planning Support Specialist / Planning Standards Developer.

This position is crucial for maintaining and enhancing our planning tools, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and supporting business resilience. 
A significant focus of the role will be on leveraging and integrating advanced digital tools to drive our commitment to our Kia Mau Strategy. You will play a pivotal role in the digital transformation of our maintenance planning processes, utilising cutting-edge technologies to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making capabilities. This will include utilising snowflake data to unlock insights,  supporting and implementing changes to data models that measure and analyse E&M business performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Critical Tools: Maintain and enhance AMS, MS Access Databases, Excel spreadsheets, and locally developed tools and scripts used for capacity, slot, and production planning.
• Knowledge Transfer: Document processes and perform knowledge transfer to ensure business continuity.
• Business Resilience: Develop strategies to mitigate risks associated with the potential failure of critical planning tools.
• Compliance: Ensure all planning tools and processes comply with CAANZ Part 145.59 (3) (ii) and Air New Zealand Part 145 MOE.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience in aircraft maintenance.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proficiency in AMS, MS Access, Excel, SAP, Power BI, Power Query, VBA, and Python.
• Experience with capacity and production planning tools.
• Strong documentation and knowledge transfer skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a dynamic team ensuring the smooth operation of Air New Zealand’s maintenance planning.
• Opportunity to make a significant impact on business resilience and risk management.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

If you are interested, please submit an online application via the Air NZ Careers site. Advertisng closes on the 4th Decmber.

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."