Production Planner Engineer at United Nigeria Airlines

United Nigeria Airlines is a wholly owned Nigerian company incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990 at the Corporate Affairs Commission to offer commercial air transportation services under the trade name United Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Production Planner Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Job Summary

• The Production Planning Engineer supports the maintenance organization in the production and management of maintenance and modification projects.
• The role is accountable for producing accurate maintenance work packages and managing complex maintenance and modification projects in accordance with UNA AMO processes and procedures.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage complex aircraft maintenance and modification projects to protect the critical path.
• Communicate professionally with customers regarding maintenance input planning to ensure requested work scopes are clearly understood and translated into actionable work packages.
• Produce work packages in line with customer requirements, ensuring access, spares, tooling, manpower, and third-party service requirements are identified and available prior to scheduled aircraft downtime.
• Liaise with approved third-party vendors to coordinate services and ensure timelines align with project requirements and critical path schedules.
• Coordinate with Part-21 Design Organisations to engineer and support customer aircraft modification requests while ensuring compliance with EASA/Foreign NAA documentation requirements.
• Prepare and chair internal pre-input review meetings with Commercial, Engineering, and Logistics departments in line with company milestones.
• Conduct pre-input review meetings with customers to discuss incoming defects and customer-specific requirements.
• Coordinate aircraft acceptance into maintenance.
• Identify and proactively resolve critical path issues that may impact maintenance schedules.
• Provide customers with daily updates on project progress during aircraft maintenance activities.
• Review and complete aircraft library documentation (e.g., Technical Log, Deferral Log) during maintenance input and release to service.
• Support the Document Control team with the review of completed paperwork and resolution of documentation issues.
• Generate documentation and support certifying staff through the aircraft return-to-service process.
• Continuously seek improvements to maximize productivity and minimize operational costs.
• Support the SBDM in managing customer expectations effectively.
• Perform any other duties within assigned capabilities as directed by the company.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified. 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: careers@flyunitednigeria.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.