You will be responsible in Planning and coordination of material requirement to support all scheduled, non-scheduled and cabin standard maintenance activity across Qatar Airways fleet. This includes initial provisioning, material requirement planning to support all modification/cabin reconfiguration/ad-hoc maintenance requirement, business process review, KPI development and management. An important element of the job function is also to maintain system data integrity, and accuracy of data used in spare calculation and inventory optimization
Some of the tasks include:
- Continuously evaluate existing processes & system to identify areas of improvement by setting and maintaining service standards/targets
- Analyze business process/performance metrics, and comparing it to industry best practice
- Preform cost & scenario analysis, benchmarking, and KPI development & management
- Cross function with purchasing, repair, and contract departments to enhance business solutions, and actively participate in RFI/RFT/RFP process
- Device automated simulations to measure proposed changes in inventory calculation methodology, and procedure
- Based on Fleet type or team responsibility, evaluate and review Trax system generated open re-order level requisitions on a daily basis, and liaise with the respective Supply Chain buyer for ordering or recommending necessary adjustments to max/min and re-order levels.
- Review all other Materials requisitions & take necessary action.
- Review scrap notes, and corresponding float levels to determine if replacement is justified. Initiate replacement actions via Purchase Requests and distribute to appropriate buyer to minimize delay with procurement action.
- Provide assistance to AOG desk team to clear AOG demands by determining if required AOG parts are available on next higher or lower assemblies as available in stock.
- Investigate and identify alternate and/or interchangeable part numbers based on airframe / engine manufacturers approved technical documentation so as to ensure the correctness of data and to avoid duplication of inventory.
- Manage & control shortages of parts through various shortage reports.
- Coordinate with Engineering Services, Engineering Planning, Aircraft Maintenance, MOCC Defect Control section and associated Workshops to resolve queries related to aircraft parts.
- In conjunction with Purchasing establish and re-set consumable re-order levels accordingly in order to support future demand.
- Produce reports in support of Material Planning activity and check progress as requested by Senior Materials Planner.
- Manage hard time component forecasts and ensure parts availability for scheduled component removals.
- Review & take necessary actions on nil stock, below safety stock reports and other support methods to improve spare service levels.
- For the designated fleet type or supply chain area of responsibility, maintain and adequate inventory at all times to ensure uninterrupted service and completion of scheduled and planned maintenance activity.
- Review and ensure re-order levels for all the expendable and consumable spare parts are set-up in the TRAX system and ensure re-order requisitions are generated in order to negate NIL Stock situations.
- Evaluate & monitor float levels for all the rotable and repairable parts to ensure sufficient inventory is maintained as per the assigned fleet type. If required, generate float increase form in accordance with the approved procedure & process for Management approval.
- For Float reviews provide a Poisson distribution float calculation in support of recommendations.
- Review inventory on a regular basis and determine slow or non-moving parts, obsolete parts, and surplus materials that can be offered on sale, loan or exchange to other airlines or companies.
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Qualifications
About you
- Minimum qualification of High School Qualification / Vocational Qualification /Diploma or Equivalent is essential.
- 4+ years of job-related experience
- Previous experience within an airline or MRO Materials Planning Department
- Familiar with aircraft technical publications and provisioning data.
- Sound knowledge on RSPL & provisioning of Aircraft Spare Parts, Consumable Materials, Tools, GSE required for initial and on-going operational needs.
- Ability to understand Technical Publications and Company Publications as related to Storage of aircraft parts such as ATA chapters, Vendor Manuals, IPC, CMM, TEM, SDM, Shelf Life Manual and TPM.
- Knowledge of float review for rotable parts using Poisson distribution float calculations.
- Knowledge of re-order level & Economic Order Quantity for expendable parts.
- Ability to understand defects standards like MDD, BDD, ADD & CDD.
- Familiar with EASA, FAA and QCAA regulations.
- Good persistent communicator and capable of handling multi tasks often under pressure and without immediate supervision.
- Ability to compile data to furnish statistical reports to the management to evaluate inventory status or to perform statistical analysis of inventory data.
- Strong interpersonal & negotiation skill, solid judgement with ability to make good decisions during contract review process
- Hands-on experience on different MRO ERP systems, preferably on TRAX
- Good command of English language
Special IT Skill:
- Good knowledge and exposure of computerized inventory controlling system.
- Special IT skill to extract and analyze data using advanced excel formulas/graphs/power queries, Oracle-SQL, Power BI etc
- Ability to acquire customized data from data sources
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Develop and implement data collection & analytic techniques, templates, simulation models and other strategies that optimize efficiency and quality
- Basic understanding of database
- Proven working experience using Basic to Intermediate SQL
