The document summarizes the responsibilities of a Senior Material Planner/Buyer at Lufthansa Technik Philippines from 2006 to 2014. Key responsibilities included supervising other material planners, coordinating material requirements, ensuring parts were procured on time to meet maintenance schedules, performing worldwide sourcing and expediting part deliveries. General responsibilities involved creating and maintaining part specifications, recommending parts and inventory levels, procuring materials and services, and obtaining vendor bids.

1. • Lufthansa Technik Philippines, [Sep 2006 to Dec 2014]
Senior Material Planner/Buyer – Material Planning and Procurement for Base Maintenance
⌐ Primary Responsibilities for Base Maintenance (Team Leader)
▪ Supervises all Lead Material Planner/Buyer with their activities.
▪ Coordinates with Project Managers and Division Managers to know which activities or parts must be
prioritized.
▪ Suggests alternative course of actions, solutions and/or strategies.
▪ Acts as Officer-In-Charge-Division Manager, Section Manager or Lead Material Planner/Buyer if the
person in-charge is not available.
▪ Review the Aircraft Daily Status Report to ensure activities of the group are aligned with the aircraft
requirements.
▪ Review material requests.
▪ Reviews or analyzes situations to make judgement or decisions to ensure smooth flow of work and
avoid conflict.
⌐ Primary Responsibilities for Base Maintenance
▪ Evaluates, analyzes, and plans all material requirements from the work load/package (based from
Original-Equipment-Manufacturer service bulletins, customer engineering publication and orders, incoming
deferred tasks/repairs report, routine and anticipated non-routine check tasks) specific to the aircraft type and
maintenance event prior to aircraft input.
▪ Coordinates all material requirements with production planning, engineering, aircraft mechanic of a
specific system, management, customer representatives, and concerned OEMs.
▪ Discuss open material/parts issues that would have a significant impact on the aircraft release
schedule during aircraft pre-input meetings with the core team.
▪ Ensures that all current material requirements and issues within the contracted maintenance layover
duration will be fully, effectively, efficiently, and timely covered/procured to meet specific task accomplishment
schedule.
▪ Performs worldwide sourcing and procurement of aircraft parts, and directing shipment movements to
attain shortest and fastest deliveries.
▪ Updates and discuss live material status through scheduled meetings with the management, customer
and production personnel on a daily basis during the actual maintenance event.
⌐ Primary Responsibilities for Line Maintenance (Rotation Program for Material Planner/Buyer)
▪ Designated to support all material and logistic operations as an AOG Desk officer under the
Maintenance Control for Philippine Airlines 24/7 flight operations, all aircraft types.
▪ Performs worldwide sourcing and procurement of aircraft parts, and directing shipment movements to
attain shortest and fastest deliveries, which includes un-grounding of Philippine Airlines aircraft/s from
outstation/s.
▪ Updates and discuss live AOG material status through meetings and reports to the management,
production personnel, and Philippine Airlines representatives on a specific timeframe, depending on the nature
of the material requirement.
▪ Monitors, evaluates, and procures, as necessary, all open items with parts requirements under the
Material Deferred Defect Report (MDDR) for Philippine Airlines’ A320, A340, and B747 fleet, and for Cebu
Pacific Airways’ ATR72 aircrafts.
▪ Ensures that all MDDR parts related from CML, AML or Non-Routine are to be complied before the
scheduled Due Date.
▪ Designated to support scheduled base maintenance checks of Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific
Airways aircrafts concerning material requirements.
⌐ General Responsibilities
▪ Designated to create, edit, and evaluate part numbers and their specifications based from OEM
approved manuals. This includes part number description, category, unit of measure, manufacturer, approved
manual reference, aircraft effectivity, and part number interchangeability.
▪ Provides assistance to mechanics, storekeepers and other concerned personnel in determining part
number specifications and interchangeabilities.
▪ Recommends part number usage and alternate materials based from OEM approved manuals.
▪ Maintains optimum level of class C (expendables, raw materials, consumables) inventory.
▪ Analyzes and recommends inventory reorder based from history and previous consumption by a
specific aircraft type.
▪ Initiates timely requisition/procurement of materials and/or services in anticipation/preparation of
scheduled and/or unscheduled maintenance events.
▪ Validates user-generated requisitions for materials and/or services prior to procurement
▪ Procures validated material and/or services requirements from approved vendors in a timely and cost-
effective manner, through individual orders, or through contractual arrangements, and ensures that all materials
and/or services being procured have appropriate and complete documentation and material certificates.
▪ Solicits and obtains vendor bids/quotations, negotiates for best possible commercial terms for the
materials and/or services being purchased.
▪ Monitors, follows-up, and updates changes, if any, to the orders in the system to ensure certain
materials and services being purchased are returned/received timely. Expedites rush orders, when necessary, to
meet operational demands and specific tasks schedule.