Chapter Lead Production Planning

Kia ora! Ready to lead people, strengthen capability and shape the future of production planning at Air New Zealand? We're looking for a Chapter Lead, Production Planning to lead and grow one of our key capability areas within Tech Ops. This is an opportunity to combine your technical expertise with people leadership, building a high performing chapter that enables our squads and delivery teams to deliver safe, efficient and reliable maintenance outcomes. Working within our agile operating model, you'll be responsible for developing the capability, standards and ways of working for the Production Planning Chapter. You'll coach and support your people while partnering across Tribes, Squads and Delivery Units to ensure the right capability is deployed where it's needed most. Your leadership will help strengthen production planning, improve collaboration and build a future ready planning function. The role you will play Lead, coach and develop the Production Planning Chapter, creating an environment where people can grow, collaborate and perform at their best Establish and continuously improve chapter standards, practices and ways of working that strengthen production planning capability across Tech Ops Partner with Delivery Units to deploy chapter capability, balancing operational priorities, capacity and individual development opportunities Provide technical leadership and trusted advice, supporting squads to optimise production planning, resource allocation and maintenance delivery Champion continuous improvement by using WIP, turnaround time, productivity and utilisation insights to identify risks, improve planning performance and support informed decision making. Build strong relationships across Maintenance Coordination, Workshops, Engineering and operational teams to remove barriers and improve end to end production outcomes Support business planning, budgeting and reforecasting by providing accurate production planning information while ensuring safety, quality