Capacity Planner/Scheduler

What are your contributions to the team?

At Bombardier, our employees work together to evolve mobility worldwide - one good idea at a time. If you have a good idea, we’ll provide the environment where it will thrive and grow into a great product or customer experience. Your ideas are our fuel.

• Adhere to Bombardier General Work Requirements
• Provide capacity planning/scheduling functions for the repair station, for example, staffing forecasts and hanger plans 
• Interface with management in support of the RFP process
• Coordinate department activities for the proper integration of their functions with data processing, planning, and production control activities
• Provide guidance and monitoring of progress on major systems projects
• Oversee, develop and/or coordinate readiness plans for new customers as required by assigned site(s)
• Schedules aircraft operators into the service center for maintenance, modifications, and service bulletin/letter compliance (Includes airframe, avionics, engines, interior and paint).
• Coordinate outside services with vendors to ensure downtime quoted will allow all requested work to be accomplished 
• Keeps current knowledge of the quality inspection requirements that could affect a work scope maintenance event or the ability of the service center to work on a scheduled aircraft
• Work with Sales and Operations team to not overload or underutilize resources or hangar capacity
• Maintain and communicate S&OP data for the BAS network
• Must ensure daily effective communication with General Manager, Operations manager and Project Managers
• Stay up to date in work aircraft to ensure any schedule changes are considered when scheduling other aircraft
• Review proposal to ensure all required quality gates are met
   

How to thrive in this role?

• You have working knowledge of process improvement methodology and application (e.g., Six Sigma)
• You have working knowledge of customer’s needs from a service center
• You have working knowledge of airline operations and flight schedule issues 
• You possess thorough knowledge of planning and scheduling systems 
• You possess thorough knowledge of aircraft maintenance programs
• You possess thorough knowledge of data security systems as required by assigned site 
• You have business writing skills necessary to create various reports and correspondence
• You have solid verbal and written communication skills
• You possess computer skills necessary to learn and/or operate work processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, email, and web-based applications
• You have planning and organizational skills necessary to prioritize, assign, and coordinate workload of assigned area and employees within a multiple project setting
• You possess interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, employees, management, and contractors