Maintenance Planning Engineer – Sharjah

Plan and coordinate scheduled and unscheduled maintenance work to preserve airworthiness and dispatch reliability across the assigned fleet. The engineer converts approved maintenance requirements into practical schedules, work packages and resource plans, while balancing calendar limits, flight hours, cycles, cost and operating priorities. Close coordination with hangar, line maintenance, engineering, procurement and external providers is essential to avoid delays and ensure planned work can be completed safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare short- and long-term maintenance plans using approved programmes and engineering instructions.
• Forecast maintenance events in the maintenance information system and create work packages, preload documents and planning charts.
• Coordinate scheduled and unscheduled line, base, workshop and third-party maintenance with the relevant teams.
• Build capacity and manpower forecasts, comparing required hours with actual utilisation and upcoming workload.
• Confirm that tooling, parts and components are available before maintenance is scheduled or inducted.
• Manage plan changes arising from operational needs, overlapping checks, unexpected defects or urgent maintenance requirements.

Requirements

• Understand maintenance intervals based on calendar time, flight hours and flight cycles.
• Be able to plan work within safety, airworthiness, cost and operational constraints.
• Communicate clearly with engineering, maintenance control, hangar, procurement and external service providers.
• Maintain accurate forecasts, schedules and technical planning records.

Qualifications

• Relevant engineering, aeronautical or aircraft-maintenance education or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience with aircraft maintenance planning and maintenance management systems is preferred.
• Exposure to AMOS or similar aviation maintenance software is beneficial.

Skills

• Maintenance scheduling and forecasting
• Work-package preparation
• Resource and capacity planning
• AMOS or maintenance-system data entry
• Cross-team coordination and reporting

Employment Details

• Employer: Air Arabia
• Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• Employment type: Full-time position; work schedules may vary by department and operational needs.
• Salary and benefits: confirm the current package during recruitment.
• Applicants must meet the role-specific licensing, medical, legal and eligibility requirements that apply to the position.

Application

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