Ground Support Equipment Maintenance Planning Manager

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The GSE Maintenance Planning Manager will have full responsibility for the maintenance planning activity and execution including daily operational planning for the fleet and ensuring proper communication with all stakeholders

**Responsibilities**:

- Consistent review of the maintenance manuals to ensure most up to date technical aids, best practices and procedures are applied to Air Canada programs
- Execute a solid Preventative Maintenance Inspections (PMI) planning forecast within operational sensitive timelines
- Monitor requirements to make sure any regulatory requirement changes are implemented into the maintenance program.
- Participate in review of maintenance scheduling at time of equipment induction.
- Implement the scheduled maintenance requirement into Air Canada maintenance program.
- Ensure the correct maintenance tasks are setup for routine reliability related requirements that have been determined by technical working groups.
- Review the validity of maintenance tasks periodically to keep the schedule maintenance
tasks efficient.
- Set up repetitive inspection requirement from the structure repair carried out on equipment as identified by engineers, regulatory.
- Optimize warranty opportunities for task and monetary recovery.
- Participate in the development of Preventative Maintenance Inspections, involving planning and frontline technical teams ensuring plan is the best fit to every stakeholder’s needs.
- Support decision making and disposition of equipment unserviceability factors minimizing out of service downtime
- Participate in meetings and ensure all mandatory routine schedule maintenance requirements are captured.
- Support our operation groups with effective communications for optimal out of service timelines / MEL factors
- On-site support maintenance activities as required, evaluate task effectiveness, identify duplications, follow up action for check findings and reports, etc.
- Involve the component reliability and optimization activities, evaluate the effectiveness of Pub 87 manual.
- Run shop inventory levels to forecast and fulfil PMI planning effectively and efficiently thereby ensuring a seamless execution of PMI planning with scheduled PMI parts
- Support in case of safety blitzs by being physically out on the ramp. These events are temporary but can happen at any time/day at any of our stations. It can happen a few times a year.

**Qualifications**
- Knowledge of Air Canada ground support equipment maintenance program, development, processes and its related regulatory environment
- Experience in relevant areas of airline technical operations
- Strong sense of initiative, creativity and continuous process improvement
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated accountability and leadership
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to organize programs
- An engineering or a technical background is a strong asset
- Must be familiar with Office software, primarily EXCEL
- M5 and I Ramp requirements set up knowledge is an asset
- Ability to work extended hours as a requirement
- Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.

**Conditions of Employment**:
**Linguistic Requirements**

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.