Materials Heavy Maintenance Representative

<strong>About Sun Country Airlines<br><br></strong>We’re not your average airline. We’re agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.<br><br>With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.<br><br><strong>Sun Country Airlines</strong> provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a great and growing company, as a<strong> Materials Heavy Maintenance Representative </strong>you’ll enjoy these benefits and more:<br><br><ul><li>Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision</li><li>PPO and high deductible health plans</li><li>Health savings accounts (HSA and FSA)</li><li>Dependent Care</li><li>Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends</li><li>401(k) match</li><li>Paid Time Off</li><li>Paid holidays</li><li>Life and AD&D Insurance</li><li>Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family</li><li>Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support<br><br></li></ul><strong>Materials Heavy Maintenance Representative Overview: <br><br></strong>The Materials Heavy Maintenance Representative is responsible for performance and administrative tasks required to support the materials requirements while an aircraft is in check. Heavy engagement in reduction of Material costs, planning, production, transportation, storage, distribution, and customer service.<br><br><strong>Essential Roles & Responsibilities: <br><br></strong><ul><li>Shipping / Receiving of required aircraft materials. Monitor and track Heavy Check materials requirements from initial starting point to destination, communicating status updates and changes that impact production to multiple departments internally as well as MRO. </li><li>Performing daily transactions in TRAX, including receiving, providing notification to Engineering to load and make effective parts, complete all inventory transactions, picklist creations and manual issues. </li><li>Ensure all aircraft material requirements are communicated, understood, and executed throughout the Supply Chain to include AOG Desk, Planning, Purchasing, Repair & Warranty, as well as Material Management. </li><li>Alert Maintenance and Supply Chain management to discrepancies and materials issues that may impact the maintenance operation and work to develop solutions. </li><li>Participate in Heavy Check pre-induction meetings to forecast demand and implement supply strategies to ensure availability of Materials. </li><li>Collaborate with Inventory Analyst to set appropriate Min/Max levels to maximize cost saving, minimizing check spans and delays. </li><li>Monitor all loans and exchanges to ensure they are processed and returned expeditiously, while ensuring cores and return paperwork meet contract return requirements. </li><li>Complete monthly shelf-life audits. </li><li>Monitor inventory utilizing cycle count process, ensure counts are complete to schedule and accurate. Aiding in researching all missing components identified during this process to complete reconciliation. </li><li>Establish warehouse practices and protocols that meet corporate initiates to reduce Material costs and maintain acceptable inventory accuracy aligned to Corporate Metrics. </li><li>Report and Monitor Material costs throughout check communicating forecasted spend to Management. </li><li>Disposition and prep obsolete, surplus or non-use items to ship off-site for consignment sale. </li><li>Oversee MRO facilities for inventory accuracy and compliance of part issues to facilitate expediting work order closures within 30 days after aircraft release. </li><li>Provide notification to records that all Materials costs are appropriately accounted for and closure of work order is authorized. </li><li>Collect and process any reimbursable cost for immediate billing after check release. </li><li>Maintain record of Hazardous Materials with relation to shipping, maintaining SDS files, accumulation of waste, and disposal in accordance with all local, state and Sun Country policy. </li><li>Conduct all tasks in a safe and efficient manner complying with all local, state, and federal safety and health regulatory requirements, programmatic standards, and with any internal policies and procedures identified by Sun Country Airlines</li><li>Perform other functions as assigned by the Director Materials. <br><br></li></ul><strong>Required Qualifications:<br><br></strong><ul><li>Experience in Inventory, Warehouse and Materials Management</li><li>Proven leadership skills</li><li>Proficient in Microsoft Office</li><li>Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal</li><li>Ability to perform independently and deliver results to the requisite quality and timeline metrics. </li><li>Must be able to obtain SIDA clearance, as well as Security Clearance at MRO Facilities. <br><br></li></ul><strong>Preferred Qualifications:<br><br></strong><ul><li>Minimum of 4 years of supply chain experience </li><li>Knowledge of TRAX operating system strongly preferred. </li><li>Familiarity with international shipping regulations (U.S. Customs)</li><li>Strong analytical, research, data processing, and computer skills</li><li>Competent in Microsoft Office Suite</li><li>Capable of muti-tasking several projects and tasks</li><li>Strong oratory and written skills will be required to participate and communicate on daily conference calls. </li><li>Bachelor of Science degree in Business, Aviation, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent experience is preferred. <br><br></li></ul><strong>Compensation:<br><br></strong>$50,000.00-60,000.00. This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.<br><br><strong>Classification:<br><br></strong>Full-time, Exempt<br><br><strong>Working Location:</strong> <br><br>Fully remote, ability to reside anywhere in the United States. <strong>100% travel required.<br><br></strong><strong>Supervisory Responsibility: <br><br></strong>None<br><br><strong>Work Environment:<br><br></strong>This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets.<br><br><strong>Physical Demands:<br><br></strong>The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands or finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.<br><br><strong>Other Duties: <br><br></strong>Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.<br><br><strong>AAP/EEO Statement:<br><br></strong>It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.<br><br>

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