Aircraft Maintenance Manager

Aircraft Maintenance Manager

Pensacola, Florida, United States

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $4.5B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

Responsibilities

The Maintenance Manager plans, coordinates, and directs the activities of the Maintenance Team in the maintenance and repair of T-45 aircraft in support of flight training operations. The Maintenance Manager must have the leadership and management skills to lead a large workforce in complying with established policies, procedures, and operations to support the Navy's T-45 Flight Training Program.

Essential Duties and Accountabilities

Maintenance Team Functions:

• Flight-line launch/recovery and servicing
• Scheduled/Unscheduled Maintenance
• Conditional Maintenance
• Aviators Life Support Equipment
• Technical Directive Program
• Ground Support Equipment
• Subcontracted maintenance support
• Off-Site/On-Call Maintenance and Off-Site Emergency Repair

Maintenance Planning and Operations:

• Perform management analysis and workload planning to ensure that customer service and company goals are met.
• Create and track long range maintenance plans, including phase and calendar/special inspections, as they integrate with Depot Maintenance and daily flight activities.
• Monitor Life Limited Components and ensure life limits are not exceeded.
• Ensure Maintenance/Work Instructions are issued to define maintenance procedures not outlined in available technical data, or for requirements specified in government directives.
• Evaluate existing methods, systems, and potential improvements for compliance to maintenance and flight schedule requirements, and ensure cost effectiveness, productivity, and personnel safety.
• When off-site emergency repairs of aircraft are needed, determine and coordinate the most feasible means to obtain repairs.
• Delegate significant assignments and projects.
• Normally designated as the Company's Weight and Balance Officer.

Customer, Supplier, and Management Coordination:

• Interface with the customer to ensure their needs are met. Must be customer oriented.
• Coordinate with supporting activities (IMA, Supply Department, Depot) to ensure requirements are known and satisfied.
• Team with the Quality Manager to analyze maintenance data to identify trends and deficiencies.
• Advise the Site Manager of the status of work in progress, and coordinate with other departments as required to accomplish tasks.
• Submit to the Site Manager any recommendations for manpower, materials, facilities, and capital equipment.
• Prepare cost estimates and obtain government approval for conditional maintenance repairs, ISR over and above repairs, and depot-level repairs.
• Maintain various forms of data and records in support of periodic required reports.

Safety, Quality, and Regulatory Compliance:

• Actively support the Company's Safety philosophy and programs. Investigate all accidents and injuries of assigned personnel and take action to prevent similar incidents.
• Serve as the Company's focal point for FOD matters on this contract, and enforce the Company's FOD prevention rules and regulations.
• Enforce the Tool Control Program.
• Comply with the Hazardous Waste Program, and act as Hazardous Waste Coordinator when assigned.
• Enforce all Company and Government regulations to ensure personnel safety and the security and preservation of Government and Company-owned equipment.
• Ensure compliance with required Quality Control policies and inspections.

Personnel Management and Labor Relations:

• Interview, select, and train new employees.
• Instruct assigned employees on proper methods and procedures as required.
• Assist in the Training Program as required for employees.
• Investigate and resolve employee complaints.
• Be thoroughly familiar with the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and resolve Step 2 grievances in accordance with the CBA.
• Discipline employees as needed to enforce Company policies, directives, and CBA requirements, following progressive disciplinary procedures.
• Be thoroughly familiar with and support Company policies and procedures.

Physical Demands:

• This classification activity is usually accomplished in an office/hangar/flight line environment and requires the scope of physical movements and postures normally associated with office/hangar/flight line activities.
• May be required to lift objects whose weight normally will not exceed 50 pounds.
• Special vision abilities required are close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust and focus.

Work Environment:

• Work conditions range from an environment with little or no physical discomfort to one where inclement weather may subject the individual to severe changes of temperature, wind, rain, etc.
• May be required to work in areas where high noise hazards prevail.
• May be exposed to fumes or airborne particles.
• May be exposed to electrical shock hazards.
• May work near moving mechanical parts.

General:

• Perform other reasonably related incidental duties when directed within the job classification.
• Maintain the highest ethical personal and professional standards.

Qualifications

Qualification Standards:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Extensive background in the field of aircraft maintenance and material support, with a minimum of twelve (12) years' experience within the last 15 years in direct aircraft maintenance repair, inspection, and modification.
• Of the last ten (10) years' experience in aircraft maintenance, six (6) years shall be in a supervisory position that included responsibility for assigning program workloads as well as duties for entire shifts.
• A minimum of one (1) year in a maintenance/production control position.
• Experience writing with clarity and technical accuracy.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) CAC (Commons Access Card).
• Must have a Valid US Drivers License required.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Extensive working knowledge, gained through management experience, of the Navy's aircraft maintenance procedures, including the COMNAVAIRFORINST 4790 series, COMNAVAIRFORINST 4790 Policies/Procedures, and NAMPSOP Programs.
• Experience supervising daily flight operations and supporting scheduled and unscheduled maintenance.
• Working knowledge of applicable aircraft.
• Understanding of basic supply procedures, and a good working knowledge of material procedures and the Naval Aviation Supply System.
• In-depth knowledge of the T-45 contract, Government contracts, and Company organization, policies, and procedures.
• Leadership and management skills to direct assigned Maintenance personnel in complying with established policies, procedures, and operations.
• Ability to manage assigned programs with effective communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate accurately and concisely on aircraft maintenance and material support matters, both orally and in writing. Must be able to read, speak, write legibly, and understand the English language.
• Computer literacy highly desired.

Licensing and Certification Requirements:

• Formal or Specialized Training/Equivalent
• Hazardous Communication Training
• FOD and TCP Awareness Trained
• Security Awareness Training
• COMNAVAIRFORINST 4790 Program Awareness
• OOMA & NALCOMIS Awareness Training
• ISO 9001/AS9100 Program Awareness
• Release Aircraft Safe for Flight
• Naval Aviation Maintenance Control Management for Optimized Organizational Maintenance Activities (OOMA) course (C-555-0053)
• Weight & Balance Certified