Maintenance Planner
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Date Posted
September 2, 2026
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary Range
$29.22+/hr (≈$60.8K+/yr)
Cost of Living
N/A
Locations
Application Deadline
October 2, 2026
Description
About Sun Country Airlines
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.
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.
Benefits
The Maintenance Planner enjoys these benefits and more:
- Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
- PPO and high deductible health plans
- Health savings account and Flexible Spending Account
- Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
- 401(k) match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid holidays
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
- Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support
This position is represented by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association. The compensation schedule is based on the collective bargaining agreement.
Maintenance Planner Overview
The Aircraft Maintenance Planner responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Monitoring all time-controlled items to ensure compliance.
- Developing work packages and schedule for accomplishment.
- Coordinating with Production to assure scheduled work is compatible with available workforce.
- Coordinating with Maintenance Control/Dispatch to ensure maintenance check intervals are utilized efficiently while maintaining maximum schedule flexibility.
Essential Roles and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:
- Prepare and maintain calendar maintenance schedules.
- Coordinate with Operations/Dispatch to ensure aircraft routing is efficient.
- Monitor all time-controlled items to ensure compliance within prescribed limits.
- Coordinate with production supervision to ensure scheduled work is compatible with available manpower.
- Determine routine maintenance requirements and prepare all required documents.
- Match workload for each aircraft to available downtime and station capabilities.
- Monitor, coordinate, and assign deferred maintenance items for correction.
- Plan, forecast, and schedule troubleshooting to close out deferred maintenance items.
- Coordinate with subject matter experts to define Return to Service Criteria.
- Build work packages in computer-based tracking systems in accordance with Maintenance Planning policies and procedures.
- Conduct all tasks in a safe and efficient manner complying with all safety and health regulatory requirements.
- Assist in other duties and projects as directed by the Maintenance Planning leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Able to work beyond scheduled shift time to accommodate flight operations.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
- Able to work independently and be proactive in the department.
- Highly motivated, able to accept new challenges and adapt to a changing work environment.
- Able to contribute new ideas or procedures to the department.
- Must be a team player.
Preferred Qualifications
- One to two years of Aircraft Maintenance Planning experience.
- A&P License.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Previous experience with maintenance planning for 737 NG.
- Experienced in using AMM, IPC, SRM, CMM, and MPD.
- Experience with computer-based tracking systems.
Compensation
$29.22 USD per hour. This is the base compensation for this role.
Classification
Full-time, Non-exempt
Working Location
This position is open in Minneapolis, MN.
Schedule
4 days on, 4 days off, 3:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
Supervisory Responsibility
None
Work Environment
This job primarily operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
Physical Demands
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 to handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, 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.
AAP/EEO Statement
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.
Other Duties
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.
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