Associate Manager - Planning

Location:  Bengaluru
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Sep 21, 2026
  • Oversee a team focused on maximizing production throughput by:
  • Maintaining program schedules and current engineering releases, reacting in a timely manner and exhibiting good decision making when changes occur.
  • Ensure that operations are analyzed for maximum efficiencies and continuous improvements are made to ensure that production activities are completed efficiently.
  • Create and approve standard operating procedures as required.
  • Production Planning

    • Plan and implement Boeing / Airbus aircraft maintenance programs and ensuring all mandatory airworthiness tasks meet regulatory and operational requirements.
    • Provide hands-on leadership to a Production Planning team focused on meeting and optimizing production schedule.
    • Monitor and track the task deferments during the checks and coordinate with the Planning team for re-plan of the tasks.
    • Ensure accuracy of the reports and declarations sent by service providers and processes are followed.
    • Lead teams to follow up daily progress of the hangar checks and
    • Lead teams to propose spare movement and tracking with store in close coordination with materials management.
    • Lead teams to conduct maintenance forecasting and creation of maintenance slots.
    Highlight all upcoming quarterly maintenance events to materials planning for spare provisioning.
  • Team Management

    • Lead the team and provide direction on execution / implementation of tasks by prioritizing functional and organization goals.
    • Support team members in collaborating across multiple internal/external stakeholders.
    • Support, nurture, and develop the team members’ skills.

     

    Any other additional responsibility could be assigned to the role holder from time to time as a standalone project or regular work. The same would be suitably represented in the Primary responsibilities and agreed between the incumbent, reporting officer and HR.

    • Engineering degree (aeronautical, mechanical, electrical, electronic, avionics, production) or Aircraft Maintenance Engineering
    An aircraft maintenance engineer qualification along with appropriate DGCA license is preferred
    • 8-10 years relevant work experience in aircraft maintenance or Planning