About the role
Kia ora!
Help shape the long-term availability of one of New Zealand's most important fleets. As a Forward Planner, you'll play a vital role in ensuring our aircraft are ready to fly safely, efficiently and on schedule. Your planning will directly support fleet availability, operational performance, commercial outcomes, and the experience we deliver to our customers every day.
As part of the Engineering Planning Chapter, you'll work within one of our Maintenance Planning Squads. Air New Zealand is home to some of the industry's most talented aviation professionals, working together to solve complex challenges and keep our fleet operating at its best. This is an opportunity to grow your planning capability while making a meaningful impact across Tech Ops.
About the role
In this role, you'll support the delivery of Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAANZ) Part 119 planning responsibilities by coordinating, scheduling and planning significant maintenance activities. Working closely with stakeholders across Tech Ops, you'll contribute to integrated maintenance plans that maximise aircraft availability while ensuring regulatory compliance, airworthiness and efficient use of maintenance resources.
How you'll make an impact
Deliver long-range maintenance planning across end-to-end maintenance horizons, balancing operational requirements, aircraft availability and commercial outcomes
Develop integrated maintenance plans covering both Light and Heavy Maintenance activities, ensuring maintenance requirements are effectively sequenced and coordinated
Develop and issue maintenance work packages for Maintenance Repair Organisations (MROs), including Heavy Maintenance Visits, retrofit programmes, structural inspections and other significant maintenance events
Proactively plan major out-of-phase maintenance activities, including modification programmes, deferred maintenance and component stagger plans to improve aircraft availability and optimise maintenance demand
Partner with Chapter and Squad members to identify opportunities for continuous improvement, simplifying planning processes and improving operational and commercial outcomes
Build strong relationships…
