Powerplant Planner - DMX

As a Powerplant Planner, you'll help ensure the reliability and availability of the Company's engine and APU fleet by monitoring on-wing engine health, forecasting fleet and spare engine needs, and coordinating off-wing engine activity. You'll plan and oversee engine removals, shop visits, build-ups, and teardowns while partnering across Departments and with external vendors to maintain asset visibility and effective engine management strategies. This role analyzes and manages Ready Spare Engine and APU inventories, supports AOG readiness by maintaining engine availability at stocked stations, and plays a critical role in protecting daily operations. Success in this position requires strong planning, analytical, and organizational skills, along with the ability to quickly adapt and reprioritize in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.

Additional Details

• The culture of Southwest Airlines means we value the camaraderie, collaboration, and innovation that occurs when we come together and interact face-to-face at our vibrant Corporate Campus. Due to the nature of this role, you would be required to work from our Dallas, TX Headquarters facility during business hours. 

• U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.

We’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics. 
 

Responsibilities

• Creates, gathers, and analyzes engine data and forecasts; creates and fulfills ad hoc report requests, and provides business insights

• Assists in the planning and forecasting of Fleet transaction initiatives within Tech Ops

• Identifies drivers of key performance indicators (KPIs), tracks and communicates these with Leaders across the organization

• Assists Sr. Planner and/or Sr. Manager in consolidating performance measurements and supporting various other PowerPlant Planning activities

• Plans Jet Turbine engine and APU removals and preservation compliance with Life limited components

• Ensures daily engine planning activities in the engine planning team

• Manages removed engines through SWA engine shop to minimize SWA turnaround time

• Uses analytical skills to assist in developing forecasting models, spares projections, and other planning tools

• Produces a schedule for Engine/APU removals and replacement, executing such work

• Maintains and coordinates with Powerplant Engineering the Watch List of engines at potential risk for removal for appropriate planning and communication with other departments

• Coordinates the removal schedule with Finance, Fleet Asset Management, and other departments to ensure that the financial impact of schedule changes is understood

• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Fundamental knowledge and priciples of operation of Aviation Gas turbine engines and fleet management concepts

• Ability to run engine planning programs with OEM/Vendor and powerplant related inputs.

• Ablity to plan and manage engines within FAA and OEM guidelines

• Understanding of aircraft maintenance language and documentation processes

• Ability to maintain a high level of confidence and trust with all levels of leadership

• Ability to demonstrate and maintain a high regard for confidential and sensitive information

• Ability to think like an owner. Demonstrates a high level of responsibility.

• Ability to apply logical approaches to solving complex problems and identifying solutions

• Ability to self-start and work autonomously, with limited and disparate information

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees up to and including leadership (written, oral, interpersonal)

• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, etc.)

• Skilled in team-building and consensus-building

• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships and lead through influence

Education

• Required: High School Diploma or GED

• Required: Bachelor's Degree

Experience

• Intermediate level experience, fully functioning broad knowledge in:

  • Data Analytics

  • Airline technical operations

  • Planning or Project management

Licensing/Certification

• N/A

Physical Abilities

• Ability to perform work duties from [limited space work station/desk/office area] for extended periods of time

• Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job

• Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job

Other Qualifications

• Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines

• Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986

• Must be at least 18 years of age

• Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines

Pay & Benefits: 

• Competitive market salary from $81,200.00 per year to $90,200.00 per year* depending on qualifications and experience. For eligible Leadership and individual contributor roles, additional bonus opportunities are available and awarded at the discretion of the Company. 

Benefits you’ll love:     

• Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too)   

• Southwest will help fund your Retirement Savings Plan, which includes a dollar-for-dollar 401(k) Company match contribution of up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings** 

• Potential for annual profit-sharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan—when Southwest profits, you profit***  

• Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents 

• Southwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment. You'll have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan, and coverage will be retroactively available to your first day of employment. 

• Explore more benefits you’ll love: https://careers.southwestair.com/benefits  

*Pay amount doesn’t guarantee employment for any particular period.  

**401(k) Company match contributions are subject to the plan’s vesting schedule. Match contributions may vary based on the position. 

*** Profit-sharing contributions are subject to the Retirement Savings Plan vesting schedule and are made at the discretion of the Company.