Opening position in CHC Helikopter Service

CHC is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Production Planner to join our Technical Operations team at our base in Stavanger/Sola.
This position supports both Part-145 maintenance production planning and CAMO maintenance planning, ensuring seamless coordination between short and long-term planning activities.

 You will play a key role in maintaining aircraft availability and compliance by planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance tasks across your assigned fleet.
As part of a global planning team, you also will collaborate across multiple locations and time zones to ensure alignment, consistent planning standards and continuous improvement to support CHC’s operational excellence worldwide.

This is a full-time position, giving the successful candidate the opportunity to be part of a dynamic organization in a very rewarding area of aviation.

This role reports to: Technical Operations Planning Team Leader

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a detailed 14-day rolling maintenance plan and contribute to the 12-week rolling plan with the regional team.

• Create and manage work packages, associate work orders. Prepare daily/bi-weekly maintenance plans for production.

• Coordinate with shift supervisors to align manpower with maintenance schedules.

• Liaise with the Regional Material Coordinator to ensure tools, materials and parts availability. Issue pick-slips for available parts.

• Monitor and adjust plans based on operational needs and resource availability.

• Align maintenance schedules with Flight Operations to minimize flight disruptions.

• Lead weekly planning meetings with production and participate in regional/global planning meetings.

• Track and schedule defect rectifications (A, B, C, D categories) and support long-term modification and heavy maintenance planning.

• Identify and escalate risks or constraints affecting maintenance execution.

• Report on base maintenance status, material shortages, constraints, and RTS dates to key stakeholders.

• Collaborate with global planning team to improve planning processes and support continuous improvement initiatives.

• Perform additional tasks assigned by the Team Leader

Qualifications

• Experience of planning maintenance in aviation or other technical industry.

• Experience using CMMS Planning Software (preferably AMOS).

• Experience of liaising with other departments to ensure collaboration and management of expectations.

• Understanding of technical documentation

• Good IT skills, familiarity with MS Office Suite.

• Experience from Aviation Industry is an advantage.

Skills and attributes

• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills, with the ability to maintain effective working relationships across multiple departments, co-workers at various levels and global teams.

• Self-driven and proactive in identifying tasks and taking extreme ownership.

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Work well independently and within teams.

• Highly analytical and structured with attention to detail.

• Ability to work calmly under pressure in a fast-paced dynamic environment.

• Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks meeting deadlines.

• Strong financial understanding with the ability to plan maintenance activities in a cost/resource efficient manner.

• Excellent communication skills in Norwegian and English, verbal and written.