Technical Services Engineer - Material Planning

About the role

SalamAir is looking for a Technical Services Engineer - Material Planning in Muscat. The engineer provides technical and engineering support for the planning, forecasting and management of aircraft materials, components, spare parts and consumables needed for scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. The goal is to match material requirements to aircraft maintenance programs, engineering needs, fleet utilization and reliability trends while keeping stock levels optimal and minimizing aircraft downtime.

Key responsibilities

• Plan, forecast and ensure timely availability of parts, materials, components and consumables for maintenance and fleet operations.
• Coordinate with Maintenance Planning, Production Planning, Engineering, Procurement, Technical Materials and Stores to set material requirements from maintenance programs, engineering needs, modifications and operations.
• Monitor material availability and inventory levels, applying approved procedures, inventory policies, forecasting methods and stocking parameters to keep cost-effective stock.
• Support provisioning and re-provisioning of Buyer Furnished Equipment, retrofits, work-card materials and breakdown spares according to fleet expansion, utilization and phase-out plans.
• Assist in meeting supply chain KPIs such as AOGs, shortages, SLAs, surpluses, cycle time and backlogs, and escalate critical shortages and supplier issues.
• Review and validate parameters such as reorder points, quantities, lead times, usage and safety stock, and analyse slow-moving, surplus and excess inventory to support optimization.
• Review technical documentation, illustrated parts catalogs and component data to support part-number relationships, alternate parts and class-change requests, and prepare the supporting documentation.
• Analyse aircraft utilization, maintenance requirements, component reliability and historical consumption to improve demand forecasting.
• Support technical evaluation of materials and alternate parts with Engineering, and provide material planning support during AOG and critical maintenance situations.
• Maintain accurate planning data, forecasts and records, and ensure compliance with aviation regulations, maintenance procedures, quality standards and safety requirements.

Required profile

• Graduate in Mechanical, Aeronautical or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience in planning; experience in supply chain (warehouse and logistics, repair management, material planning, inventory control, technical purchasing) is preferable.
• Aircraft maintenance spares planning experience is preferable; airlines or MRO experience is also considered.