Job Purpose: The procurement section ensures efficient outsourcing and contracting of all aircraft-related commodities, including fleet, power plants, and equipment. Organized by commodity lines such as avionics, power plants, and airframe systems, we collaborate with engineering, finance, legal, and insurance teams to meet business needs with optimal terms. We manage supplier relationships and oversee warranty and product support, including contract administration and digital archiving. Our team negotiates extensively to secure and administer top product support, ensuring the highest standards of performance and integrity for our aircraft.A Material Planning Officer will support provisioning and re-provisioning of Aircraft Spares, Tools, Consumables and Service Bulletin (SB)/Mod Materials in order to achieve agreed service levels and optimum stock levels.In this role, you will:

• Initial provisioning and re-previsioning of an assigned group of items include BFE (Buyer Furnished Equipment), Retrofit, Mod, Special Engineering Work Card (SEWC) items, and breakdown spares of in-house repairable items by analysing manufacturer recommendations, leveraging in-house expertise to effectively support fleet growth/phase out plan.
• Maintain compliance with Material Planning procedures, methods, and parameters applicable for different types/categories of aircraft parts to maintain cost-effective stock levels.
• Support objectives of supply chain metrics including measurement and control of Aircraft On Ground (AOG), Robberies, Shortages, SLAs, Surplus, Deferred Defects, Cycle Time, Backlogs, and other KPIs. Escalate critical shortages, service failures and identify corrective actions to maintain performance, productivity, and delivery at the agreed level.
• Assist in clearing material shortages, provisioning triggers and strores discrepancies to avoid backlogs and quarantine stock build up. Identify and implement corrective actions as required.
• Support periodic audits of inventory parameters including Re-order point, Order Quantity, Lead Time, Average Monthly Usage (ASM) etc., recommending areas to improve metrics.
• Assist in reviews of slow, non-moving and higher month of coverage (MOC) repariable and expendable items of assigned vendors/commondities in order to establish contractual buyback items and seek approval for surplus stock declarations.
• Assist in data collection from technical documentation relating to part basic, part relation and vendors within Ultramain to assist the alternate parts advice procedure & class change requests by drafting forms and collating supporting documentation needed for approval.
• Support cost optimisation opportunities by engaging in projects as required.

Qualifications & Experience: To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Have a Bachelor's Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) with 5+ years of experience in Engineering or Materials & Stores. A level qualifications (12 years schooling) may be considered with additional relevant experience.
• Have experience in planning.
• Having industry experience in Supply Chain is preferable (Warehouse & Logistics, Repair Management, Material Planning, Support & Inventory Control, Technical Purchasing).
• Having aircraft maintenance spares planning experience is preferable.
• Having airlines or MRO work experience will also be considered.
• This is not a leadership role.

Salary & Benefits: Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website confidential Further information on whats it like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.This job has been sourced from an external job board.
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