Manager Maintenance Planning

Company

Horizon Air

Our M&E team has earned the FAA’s prestigious Diamond Award for almost 20 consecutive years – the only major carrier to receive the award for as many years, and the most of any airline. From our parts warehouse to the maintenance hangar, our Ready, SAFE, Go; mindset prioritizes safety in all that we do – for our guests and coworkers. If you share our values to safety and excellence, we want to hear from you.

The Manager of Maintenance Planning is responsible for creating and executing the maintenance planning strategy for Horizon Air. This role leads and establishes priorities for the maintenance planning team and partners with M&E stakeholders to develop and execute a strategy that consistently delivers safety and compliance while optimizing resources to achieve operation objectives.

• Lead team and establish priorities to deliver maintenance planning strategy that consistently delivers safety and compliance.
• Make decisions and provide input on the long‑term forecast for M&E that balances demand and capacity and supports efforts to coordinate with key stakeholders (including SOC and Network Planning) on a strategic roadmap to ensure that M&E has the right mix of personnel, qualifications, tooling, parts, and workspace to achieve organizational objectives.
• Establish regular communications and touchpoints that ensure M&E leadership and relevant stakeholders have visibility to overall strategy, and coordinate actions required to meet plan objectives.
• Influence across M&E and coordinate efforts to ensure successful planning and execution for special projects and engineering efforts, including heavy maintenance vendors and aircraft modifications.
• Develop and maintain the procedures, systems & plans needed to accurately forecast future scheduled maintenance activities for all aircraft in the Horizon fleet.
• Manage the activities of the Maintenance Planning department to ensure that production schedules are coordinated with the Operations division, Maintenance and Engineering (M&E) departments, and other Horizon organizations so that work may be accomplished as planned while providing aircraft to operate the flight schedule.
• Develop and maintain the heavy maintenance visit plan in consideration of budget guidelines, aircraft allocation, or other parameters.
• Develop and maintain a heavy vendor maintenance plan for the year in progress, then a two‑year plan, complete with estimated labor hours, span time projections, and tail number assignments.
• Oversee the work of maintenance planners to build‑up work control packages for aircraft scheduled for Heavy Checks and the special project work from sources both within and outside the Maintenance Department.
• Maintain knowledge of TRAX functions as they pertain to the planning environment and update forecasts with respect to the duty assignment.
• Leverage technology to enhance department performance and productivity.
• Develop people through effective performance management and ongoing feedback, focusing on fostering strategic and systems thinking, development of talent, and succession planning.
• Shape culture of team through action, presence, and reinforcement of behaviors.

• 5 years of maintenance planning or related maintenance operations experience.
• 2 years of leadership experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Ability to alternate between strategic, tactical, and operational priorities while working on projects and to quickly determine long/medium/short‑term impact of proposed solutions and goals.
• Detail oriented and highly organized, with the ability to execute on multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines and work independently with limited guidance in a fast‑paced environment where flexibility is key.
• Strong people skills and the ability to foster collaborative relationships with key stakeholders that drive mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills: verbal (both informal working teams and formal executive…