Heavy Maintenance Material Coordinator, Senior

Material Coordinator

Leads a team of Material Coordinators in supporting heavy maintenance events and ensures delivery of work completion, vendor performance, and cost reduction objectives are achieved.

Essential duties include:

• Ensuring required materials and services are obtained and delivered on schedule and at the lowest total cost.
• Communicating with MRO and Republic On site reps on all material requested and expected delivery dates. Working with maintenance team on material concerns giving options to meet delivery expectations.
• Attending pre-planning meetings with Maintenance Strategic Planning team, planning all heavy maintenance events two weeks prior to induction.
• Ensuring requirements are communicated, understood and executed throughout the Supply Chain organization including Material Planning, Purchasing, Repair & Warranty and Material Services to guarantee sources of supply.
• Confirming stock accuracy and core returns across heavy check locations.
• Working to continuously improve processes and flow across all touchpoints within the heavy check value stream.
• Monitoring and validating requests based on MPD, Illustrated Parts Catalog, and non-routine requirements.
• Coordinating with the MRO provider to manage source of supply and to document those parts that are self-supplied vs. MRO provided based on lowest total cost for the organization and contractual terms on an ongoing basis.
• Collaborating with Maintenance to continuously improve internal heavy check operations, including cost, service levels, and efficiency initiatives.
• Monitoring monthly and quarterly service levels and the operational performance matrix.
• Working directly with heavy check management to evaluate current processes and to establish additional ones to enhance the operation.
• Receiving in all material into computer system, monitoring inventory for accuracy and issues for aircraft during heavy maintenance event.
• Ensuring all unserviceable inventory is returned and expedited for repair vendor.
• Fostering the Company's core values and culture throughout the work environment.
• Providing technical leadership to team and department members. Leads through example; monitors, influences and trains others. Provides input to supervisor on opportunities for operational efficiencies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required knowledge, skills and abilities include:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Requires at least two years of experience as a heavy maintenance check coordinator, material planning or equivalent experience.

Preferred education and/or experience:

• Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in aviation, supply chain or related field.
• Prefer airline experience.

Language skills:

Able to read, analyze, and interpret technical information such as manufacturer's manuals, parts manuals and technical procedures, and governmental regulations. Able to respond to common inquiries or complaints from internal customers, vendors and management. Able to effectively present information to vendors and management.

Reasoning/problem solving ability:

Able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Able to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Decision making:

Makes decisions daily on use of resources. Decisions could require additional expenditure of resources if not sound decisions.

Physical demands:

Able to move about the work environment.

Frequently required to stand, walk, sit, talk and hear.

Work environment:

Work in outdoor weather conditions within an open air hangar occasionally.

Able to work on call 24/7.

Travel requirements:

Travel up to 30% of the time, including overnight travel.

Equal Opportunity Employer, Disability, and Veteran Accommodations:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.