Senior Materials Officer

Company Description

Job Description

The Senior Materials Officer is responsible for sourcing, procuring, and coordinating aircraft materials required to support scheduled and unscheduled Heavy Maintenance activities. The role ensures the timely and cost-effective availability of parts, components, and repair solutions to minimize aircraft downtime and support on-time aircraft release.

Accountabilities:

• Review material requirements during maintenance inputs and raise purchase orders to secure required spares on time and at optimum cost.
• Coordinate with Production, Planning, and Engineering teams to resolve pre-input material shortages and support maintenance schedules.
• Source and procure aircraft parts, components, repairs, loans, and exchanges in compliance with company requirements.
• Monitor material shortages and repetitive defects, providing recommendations to Planning and Strategic Procurement teams to mitigate future risks.
• Represent Materials during daily operational meetings and proactively manage potential work stoppages, critical shortages, and AOG situations.
• Conduct regular purchase order reviews to optimize costs, delivery performance, and supplier effectiveness.
• Liaise with OEMs, repair vendors, and internal stakeholders to develop repair and material support solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and support long-term solutions for recurring supply chain challenges.
• Support the administration and performance monitoring of supplier, repair, and maintenance support contracts.
• Contribute to departmental projects and other activities as assigned by the Department Manager

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or equivalent technical degree with minimum 5 years aviation inventory management experience.
• Strong knowledge of aircraft spares procurement, repairs, loans and exchanges, PBH, pooling arrangements, and supply chain best practices.
• Working knowledge of aircraft maintenance documentation, including IPC, CMM, AMP, and MPD.
• Familiarity with repair management, warranty claims, RSPLs, and OEM support agreements.
• Strong negotiation, supplier management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience working within ERP/MRO systems (AMOS, SAP, TRAX, Ramco, Wings, MXI or equivalent) is preferred.