Lead Campaign Planner

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!

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

We are currently seeking a Lead Campaign Planner to develop, maintain and oversee all medium to long range maintenance planning activities and campaigns, encompassing both scheduled maintenance and defect management.

Reporting to the Maintenance Planning Manager, this role is responsible for setting maintenance planning standards and acting as the primary escalation point for complex planning issues that impact fleet availability and operational outcomes. You will ensure regulatory and organisational compliance through the reconciliation of completed work packs, while driving continuous improvement across maintenance planning processes.

The Lead Campaign Planner will also lead performance trend analysis to identify risks, opportunities and improvement initiatives, and manage procurement and material requisition workflows to support effective and timely campaign delivery. Through strong stakeholder engagement and disciplined planning governance, this role plays a critical part in enabling safe, compliant and efficient maintenance execution.

As the Lead Campaign Planner you’ll be responsible for:

• Identifying the critical business resources (labour, material, equipment, etc.) required to consistently and efficiently deliver compliance with scheduled maintenance requirements 
• Providing leadership, guidance and consistently demonstrate Jetstar values  
• Demonstrating commitment to CASA and other industry regulatory authorities that continued airworthiness management and company standards can be sustained by sound process and procedures 
• Supporting the continual improvement of the operation. Work with the Aircraft Allocations 
• Driving compliance of departmental procedures.  
• Acting in higher duties where required to backfill the Manager as required to support operational requirements 

You’ll have:

• Aircraft Trade Certificate or a tertiary qualification in aviation or engineering, or equivalent relevant experience
• Minimum of two years’ experience in a Line Planner, Fleet Planner, or similar role
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including experience in a leadership or supervisory position - desirable
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to effectively manage and adapt to change
• Sound knowledge of the PART 145 and PART 42 regulatory framework
• Working knowledge of MIS, OEM data, and Microsoft Office applications
• Solid understanding of Systems of Maintenance

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.

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
We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply by: Sunday 12th April 2026.