Maintenance Planner

  • Full-time
  • Business Function: Support Functions
  • Parent Business Function: Corporate & Support Functions
  • Time Type: Full time
  • Worker Sub-Type: Permanent
  • Entity: Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd

Company Description

We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.

Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.

Our people are the real jet stars!

Job Description

  • Immediate access to generous staff travel benefits  

  • Enjoy a 4 day on, 4 day off shift roster  

  • Leverage your experience in Aircraft Maintenance Planning  

  • MEL Head Office 

Do you want to takeoff in a new career opportunity and put your career on your bucket list? Now is the perfect time to take off with Jetstar! Join us and continue our journey as Best Low Cost airline, Australia-Pacific.   

This year we will also continue to welcome more state-of-the-art aircraft, launch new international routes and continue our mission to help more people take off through low fares.  


Jetstar Engineering: A team that takes off together 

We rely on our engineers to deliver our superior safety standards, up to the second. They’re the trouble-shooters, glitch-fixers and tech-experts who make sure we take to the sky safely. 

As part of our investment in our future, we launched the Melbourne Engineering Precinct, which is the main maintenance hub of our network.   Our engineers are uniquely placed to enjoy a career that sees them developing skills across all functional areas of maintenance – line, intermediate and base activity. Our team also has the opportunity to work not only on Jetstar fleet, but customer aircraft – A320/21, B787 and A320 Freighter.   Our Melbourne Precinct is the proud home for our Apprentice Program. 

Ready for your next adventure?  

Reporting to our Lead Line Planner, your primary focus in this role will be the planning of the scheduled and unscheduled maintenance tasks, undertaken by various Approved Maintenance Organisations (AMO's).   You will play a critical role in ensuring compliance of the Jetstar Airways fleet and maintaining operational integrity.  

As Maintenance Planner, accountabilities will include: 

  • Assisting the Maintenance Operation Centre (MOC) in providing on-going compliance control of both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activity 

  • Maintaining compliance control of all work packages issued via TRAX 

  • Demonstrating commitment to CASA and other industry regulatory authorities that continued airworthiness management and company standards can be sustained by sound process and procedures as detailed in the Maintenance Operations Procedures Manual 

  • Providing Engineering input to Jetstar Operations Control Centre (JOCC) decision making processes for disruption management 

  • Assisting in the control of schedules with the Aircraft Allocations Coordinator 

  • Investigating and reviewing serious incidents and assisting in the implementation of corrective actions 

  • Maintaining accurate aircraft standards to support optimised planning outcomes 

  • Analysing technical, costing and planning issues with responsibilities for establishing standards, direction and ensuring technical / commercial / cost effective performance. 

We’re on the hunt for somebody who has: 

  • A detailed understanding of Aircraft Line / Base Maintenance and Operations 

  • Experience in Aircraft Maintenance Planning 

  • Ability to communicate & negotiate effectively with internal and external stakeholders 

  • Understanding of TRAX, CAE Movement Manager and Microsoft Office applications 

  • Highly motivated and committed to continuous improvement 

  • Able to build effective working relationships and thrive in a team environment 

Your life at Jetstar is unlike any other  

Put the craft in aircraft: There’s a new fleet of A321LR NEO’s waiting for your arrival. Beyond Jetstar, our Operations Team get to exposure to projects related to the Qantas Group’s A320/1, B717 and A321 Freighters, plus Jetstar Branded Airlines (JBA’s) in Japan.   

Live the travel dream: You and your nominated travel companions can takeoff more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount.    

Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar.  

There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar:  For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of.  We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly.  We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us.  If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.   

We’re Jetstar.  Let’s takeoff together  

Applications Close: Friday, 27th of February 2026

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