Key Responsibilities

Airframe Workscope Analysis

- Develop and review aircraft maintenance workscopes for major maintenance events.
- Analyze historical maintenance workscopes and identify recurring and avoidable tasks.
- Review maintenance task requirements, intervals, thresholds, and escalation opportunities.
- Identify opportunities for workscope optimization and maintenance cost reduction.
- Assess the impact of maintenance findings on aircraft downtime and future maintenance requirements.
- Evaluate opportunities to combine, defer, or optimize maintenance tasks within approved regulatory and maintenance-program requirements.

Aircraft Maintenance Planning

- Analyze aircraft maintenance schedules and upcoming major maintenance events.
- Review A, C and other scheduled maintenance requirements.
- Analyze structural inspections, landing gear, flight controls, fuel systems, ATA chapters and other major airframe maintenance requirements.
- Support long-term maintenance forecasting and aircraft downtime planning.
- Evaluate maintenance capacity and turnaround-time requirements.

Fleet Lifecycle Optimization

- Analyze aircraft age, Flight Hours (FH), Flight Cycles (FC), utilization and maintenance history.
- Assess aircraft remaining useful life and maintenance burden.
- Identify aircraft suitable for continued operation, life extension, storage, lease return, retirement or part-out.
- Develop aircraft lifecycle optimization recommendations.
- Compare maintenance investment requirements against remaining aircraft economic life.

Reliability & Performance Analysis

- Analyze aircraft reliability trends and repetitive defects.
- Review technical delays, cancellations, AOG events and aircraft-related operational disruptions.
- Identify reliability improvement opportunities.




- Analyze maintenance cost trends and cost drivers.
- Develop aircraft health and maintenance performance indicators.

Workscope Cost Optimization

- Analyze maintenance event cost drivers.
- Evaluate labor, material, inspection and repair requirements.
- Identify opportunities for cost avoidance and maintenance efficiency.
- Support Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for aircraft.
- Develop business cases for major maintenance and lifecycle decisions.

Data Analytics & Reporting

- Analyze large aircraft maintenance and utilization datasets.
- Develop fleet health dashboards and maintenance forecasting models.
- Perform trend, variance, scenario and sensitivity analysis.
- Translate technical data into actionable management recommendations.
- Prepare technical reports and executive presentations.

Stakeholder Management

- Collaborate with Engineering, CAMO, Maintenance, Planning, Reliability, Supply Chain, Finance and Operations teams.
- Work with MRO providers and aircraft OEMs where required.
- Participate in technical workshops and fleet review meetings.
- Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Required Experience

- 8–15+ years of aviation experience, preferably in aircraft engineering, technical services, maintenance planning, CAMO, MRO or fleet management.
- Strong experience in airframe maintenance workscope development and optimization.




- Experience with commercial aircraft maintenance programs.
- Experience analyzing aircraft maintenance records and utilization data.
- Strong understanding of aircraft lifecycle and maintenance cost drivers.
- Experience with major maintenance events and aircraft downtime planning.

Preferred Aircraft Experience Experience with one or more of:

- Airbus A320 Family
- Airbus A330/A340
- Airbus A350
- Boeing 737 NG/MAX
- Boeing 747/757/767
- Boeing 777
- Boeing 787
- Regional aircraft

Technical Expertise

Robust knowledge of

- Aircraft Maintenance Programs
- Maintenance Planning Documents (MPD)
- Maintenance Review Board (MRB) requirements
- MSG-3 methodology
- Airworthiness Directives (AD)
- Service Bulletins (SB)
- Structural inspections
- Corrosion prevention and control
- Landing gear maintenance
- Flight control systems
- Fuel systems
- ATA chapter structure
- Aircraft reliability programs
- Aircraft technical records
- Maintenance task intervals and escalation
- Heavy maintenance / base maintenance
- Aircraft lease return requirements

Data & Analytical Skills

Mandatory

- Advanced Microsoft Excel
- Data analysis and visualization
- Maintenance forecasting
- Trend analysis
- Cost analysis
- Scenario analysis

Preferred

- Power BI
- SQL
- Python
- Tableau
- Statistical analysis
- Optimization modeling
- Predictive maintenance analytics

Aviation Systems Experience Experience with one or more:

- AMOS
- TRAX
- Ramco Aviation
- Maintenix
- Rusada ENVISION
- SAP
- Oracle
- CAMP
- Airbus Skywise

Preferred Certifications

- Aircraft Maintenance License – DGCA / EASA Part-66
- PMP
- Lean Six Sigma
- Reliability Engineering Certification
- IATA Aviation Maintenance / Engineering courses

Experience Level: 8-15 Years

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