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Location: Uxbridge
Job type: Permanent
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Contact: Lee Mowatt
Sector: Aviation
Job Role:
Materials Manager
Permanent opportunity for a Materials Manager based at London Heathrow airport.
Reporting directly to the Technical Director, the Materials Manger will be responsible for the repair management and procurement of aircraft parts, materials and tooling to support aircraft operations, ensure lean standards are adhered to, and efficient and cost-effective measures are utilised.
Main Duties:
* Manage the provision of all aircraft parts and materials required for defect rectification ensuring effective communication is maintained
* Ensure the production of daily defect status reports and attend daily weekday meeting to report component status.
* Procure all other aircraft parts and materials to support line, base and heavy check maintenance operations with an emphasis towards cost effective on-time procurement solutions
* Ensure all procurement is carried out in a lean, efficient and cost-effective manner, ensuring adherence to overstocking and obsolescence policies
* Make recommendations based on historical usage and essentiality to the aircraft operation of reduced or increased minimum stock levels ensuring overstocking and obsolescence is avoided
* Provide feedback concerning supplier performance issues
* Deal with and monitor all Critical and AOG shipments to ensure they move point to point as quickly and cost effectively as possible
* Liaise with Planning and MCC concerning the procurement of aircraft components and material for planned maintenance. Ensure the department is aware of planned maintenance activity and associated timeframes to be met
* Raise and progress all Purchase, Loan, Exchange and Repair orders, ensuring compliance with the company policy on Approved Suppliers
* Approve and input repair and calibration quotations ensuring cost of repair and repair warranty is analysed against procuring a replacement with suitable warranty terms at fair market value
* Analysis of any component declared Beyond Economical Repair (BER) to determine if the component should be replaced, held until a repair is required or redirected to another repair station for further analysis
* Be able to demonstrate cost saving initiatives
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