Air Personnel are looking for a Maintenance Planner for a client based in Shawbury. This is a PAYE fixed term contract lasting twelve months with a possible extension to two years. The Maintenance Planner is responsible to provide short/medium term planning requirements and Material Planning requirements to support aircraft scheduled maintenance inputs. The main responsibilities of the post holder will be: * To ensure that all appropriate legislative and Company Procedures are adhered to to ensure that the Company remains compliant and aircraft airworthy. * Liaison with Operations Controllers, Technical Records and the Maintenance Team to ensure a common understanding of capability and capacity. * Entry of Technical log utilisation data onto the Maintenance system. * Review of allocated Aircraft status reports on a weekly basis to ensure full maintenance programme compliance is maintained. * Identify provisional maintenance dates for allocated aircraft based on projected utilisation and update the Maintenance planning calendar with 'Provisional' maintenance dates. * Review material requirements against provisional maintenance dates for allocated aircraft. Raise reservations/purchase requisitions for missing materials * Raise aircraft scheduled maintenance orders. * Review of prepared work specifications and work packages for maintenance inputs to ensure that aircraft downtimes are minimised. * Confirm material requirements are available for the scheduled maintenance events for allocated aircraft * Ensure that the support and prepared documentation provided by Planning meets the needs of scheduled maintenance inputs. * Reset Maintenance tasks in MIS. * Other such reasonable tasks as directed by AHUK management team in support of the MFTS operation The post holder would ideally have the following Knowledge and Skills: ESSENTIAL * Must have knowledge of EASA regulations relating to Part M and Part 145 Airworthiness and Maintenance requirements. * Experience with SAP and ERP software, for the use of Technical Records, Planning and Maintenance. * Must have high computer literacy skills, competent with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Access). We require the post holder to have the following Education, Qualifications or special training: ESSENTIAL * Formalised EASA Part 145 and Part M training. DESIRABLE * Academic qualification in Aviation related discipline (NVQ, BTEC, HNC/D). If you would like further information please call Michelle or email your CV