Play a key role in keeping aircraft safe and compliant through effective maintenance planning
Full time, permanent opportunity based at our Jetstar Headquarters in Melbourne
Take off with exclusive employee perks, including our world-class staff travel program

About Our Engineering Team

We rely on our Jetstar Engineering Team 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. Solving problems. Trying new things. Getting hands-on. Fixing and double checking. It’s all part of the day job as a Jetstar Engineer – whether you’re on the frontline as a Maintenance Engineer or in our Engineering Corporate & Support Team ensuring that we land deadlines, keep projects on track and work as a team to help us transform our fleet for the better.

Your Opportunity

As a Fleet Maintenance Planner, you will be responsible for coordinating both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities across multiple Authorised Maintenance Organisations (AMO), ensuring aircraft safety, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency.

Reporting to the Heavy Maintenance Planning Manager, you will work with a high degree of autonomy within the delegated responsibilities outlined in the Maintenance Operations Procedure Manual (MOPM). In addition to managing complex planning tasks, you will provide critical engineering input into decision-making processes related to disruption and operational management. All decisions must prioritise safety and compliance above all else.

You’ll be responsible for:

Delivering maintenance work packages with no overruns or AD breaches
Coordinating with support staff to plan maintenance within MOU limits and optimise task utilisation
Deferral, rescheduling, and concession of maintenance tasks
Complying with Jetstar Corporate OHS responsibilities
Support business development & continuous improvement
Comply with Jetstar Corporate & Departmental Service Standards

To be successful in this role, ideally you’ll have:

Detailed understanding of Aircraft Line/Ramp Maintenance and Operations
Ideally 12 months experience in Aviation Maintenance Planning (desirable)
Ability to undertake occasional travel when required (infrequent)
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
Proficiency with Trax or similar MIS

We’re on the hunt for someone with a Maintenance Planning background (ideally in Aviation), demonstrates a strong work ethic, communicates effectively, and brings a proactive approach to improving efficiencies. Relevant qualifications in Aviation/Aerospace/Engineering are a bonus, but not essential.

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 Engineering Team get to exposure to projects related to the Qantas Group’s A320/1, B787 and A321 Freighters, plus Jetstar Branded Airlines (JBA’s) in Singapore and Japan.

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.

To be considered for this role, you must have unrestricted rights to work in Australia.

We’re Jetstar. Let’s takeoff together
We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply by: Sunday 4th January 2026.

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!

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