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Role Overview
Senior Materials Officer at Etihad Airways, Abu Dhabi. This role analyzes and proposes optimum levels of assigned inventory type with best practices of inventory management to meet agreed SLAs to Technical's operations in the most cost-effective manner.
Company Overview
Etihad Airways is the UAE's national airline. From the hub in Abu Dhabi, the airline connects people across continents and cultures. The organization is executing the "Journey 2030" ambition to double the fleet, expand the network, and grow its people for a new era of excellence.
Role Purpose
Support inventory management including all aspects of asset management, such as operations support, investment analysis, surplus management, and database management. The role ensures timely availability of spare parts and consumables at optimum cost while maintaining adequate inventory levels to achieve set service levels.
Key Responsibilities
Inventory Planning & Optimization
- Ensure timely review of open requisitions and raising appropriate orders for timely spare availability at optimum cost.
- Calculate, analyze and update reorder levels in ERP for Current Assets to ensure availability of consumables to achieve set service levels and maintain adequate inventory levels at reasonable cost.
- Calculate and provide recommendation for adequate inventory levels based on demands, forecasting and aircraft operations for all Fixed assets holding including cabin, airframe, tools and GSE.
- Demonstrate control on spend based on the division's strategy, whether asset-light or asset-heavy.
Procurement & Orders
- Raise purchase, sales and service orders to support operations.
- Review invoices for timely payment.
Asset & Provisioning Management
- Support provisioning and scrap activities including recommendation, procurement and maintain inventory based on change in demands and fleet size.
- Monitor the performance of components in accordance with guarantees provided by OEMs and Aircraft Manufactures.
- Liaise with reliability team to get FOC spare support.
- Monitor and stagger tools calibration to ensure availability for all maintenance activities.
Reporting & Analysis
- Prepare and analyze Inventory holding and controlling related reports and dashboards.
Stakeholder Coordination
- Liaise with various teams for spares support for lease return activities, component modifications or any other inventory optimization activities.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical degree with minimum 5 years aviation inventory management experience.
- Tracked record in aviation asset management, provisioning, procurement, contract management and/or supplier management functions.
- Recommended knowledge of technical manuals including IPC, ITM and MPD.
- Familiarity with RSPLs, spare repair and warranty, OEM support contracts such as SSC and PSAA.
- Familiarity with lease return requirements.
Skills & Competencies
- Self-motivated and team player.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Project management skills.
- Advance level MS Excel knowledge.
- Advance level PowerPoint knowledge.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.