You will coordinate and optimise Base Maintenance planning to ensure aircraft availability, safety and on-time delivery of maintenance events. You’ll act as the interface between planning, production, engineering and supply to remove blockers and continuously improve planning processes. 

• Attend BM aircraft Induction & Delivery meetings, All Hands and daily toolbox talks; produce maintenance production reports. 
• Liaise closely with Base Maintenance Lead, Crew Leads, Technical Specialists and Supply to ensure spares and engineering responses are available to enable crews to complete tasks. 
• Manage rescheduling of deferred and emergent maintenance (using Interval Extension Requests, Engineering Orders, Deferred Defects and Special Maintenance Requirements) and optimise planning to avoid impacting other work. 
• Maintain and review maintenance work packs during events, analyse production data and participate in process improvement, quality and safety investigations. 

About You:  

You’re an organised, analytical planner with hands-on Base Maintenance experience and a clear understanding of regulatory and contractual requirements. You translate technical constraints into executable plans, support continuous improvement, and deliver accurate reporting. 

• Advanced MS Office skills with the ability to create, analyse and present production data. 
• Experience operating within a Base Maintenance environment and conversant with DASR Part 145 organisational requirements. 
• Familiarity with MRO systems (e.g. iFlight MRO / IDMR) and Defence Objective is desirable. 
• Prior experience as a CAMM2 Data Manager (or similar) is highly regarded. 

What we Offer: 

We have built our benefits to help you define your possible.  

• 18 weeks paid parental leave  

• Flexible Working Options including - Hybrid Working, 9-day Fortnights, Volunteer leave, Varying start and Finish times to suit your family needs. 

• 2 Weeks Paid Reservist leave  

• Health, Wellbeing and Generous Employee discount programs 

• Additional purchased annual and salary packaging option  

• Ongoing career progression opportunities- leadership development, education support, ongoing career growth through internal movement  

Who we are: 

At Northrop Grumman Australia, we have been defining possible for the ADF for over 20 years. Our commitment to safeguarding Australia’s future by delivering pioneering technology is only matched by our commitment to building a great place to work and supporting each other.   

Everyone Matters:  

Wherever you are in your career, we have a range of policies and initiatives in place to help you define possible based on your individual needs. A variety of initiatives support STEM education, veterans, communities and the environment. And our thriving Employee Resource Groups also enable our people to share common interest in such areas as veterans, gender and young professionals. 

Whats Your Possible? 

As a Defence security clearance is required for this role, you must be an Australian Citizen. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) are applicable, as such your nationality may be a factor in determining your suitability for this role. You will also need to satisfy police checks and employment screening verification