Sofema Aviation Services (SAS) considers the typical Roles and Responsibilities of the EASA Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation (CAMO) related to the Planning Department and the importance of the role related to the delivery of effective maintenance.
Within the CAMO department, the Maintenance Planning Group has a range of responsibilities which include the delivery of the aircraft maintenance work package to ensure the aircraft remains fully compliant with the Maintenance Program.
This could be considered to be the “fixed” portion of the workload, as it does not fluctuate rather it is based on the Maintenance Planning Document “MPD”. Together with the fixed workload, there is an associated and variable workload driven by Airworthiness Directives (ADs). Modifications (Mods), and Service Bulletins (SBs) together with Deferred Defects.
Specific Duties include the following:
1/ Aircraft Maintenance Planning & Special Requirement Control and Management;
2/ Forward planning of Maintenance requirements by definition of proposed fleet utilization data typical either per budget year or rolling plan;
3/ Preparation of “Short Term”, “Mid Term” & “Long Term” Maintenance forecasts;
Note that it is commonly accepted that short-term planning activities are typically more accurate.
4/ Preparation of the Man-Hour Plan (Note that this is also to be considered a function of EASA Part 145 Production Planning department) It is necessary as part of the budget process to analyze the Man Power Requirements;
5/ Negotiate with Commercial and Operations to achieve the optimum downtime to facilitate maintenance – considered in conjunction with capacity planning exercise;
6/ Scope – Define – Plan and Issue the Aircraft Maintenance Work Package including scheduled and unscheduled activities – issue the work pack to Materials Planning and Base Maintenance Production Planning groups. (Production Planning to ensure that all required tooling is available);
7/ Continue to Coordinates with the Material Planning Group and Maintenance Production Planning Group to ensure timely availability of all aircraft parts, tooling, and materials required in support of Maintenance Work packages;
Note the importance of this aspect to minimise both disruption and interruptions during the physical delivery of the maintenance check. (Human Factors Considerations)
8/ Ensure Maintenance Planning Manpower support is available during the delivery of the maintenance check to provide ongoing support in the event of issues arising. Prefer for the possibility of withdrawing tasks from the work package (providing it is allowable);
9/ Liaison with Engineering Technical Services in particular regarding non- routine requirements which can add uncertainty to the manpower requirements.
Note because of the “Ad Hoc” nature of the activities an additional dimension is added which complicates the planning process. It becomes more challenging for the planning process both in terms of maintenance planning and production planning. This is due to the variability of the work required by ad hoc task, which in some cases can be very significant and have repercussions which impact other elements of the maintenance activity.
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Airworthiness Directives (ADs), CAMO, Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation (CAMO), EASA, Maintenance Planning Document “MPD”., Maintenance Planning Group, Modifications (Mods), SAS blogs, Service Bulletins (SBs)
