Platform 2 UAS Fleet Manager
Platform 2 UAS Fleet Manager
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Job Description
About Zipline
About You and The Role
Were looking for a P2 Fleet Manager someone who tracks every aircraft across test production and field sites and builds the internal tooling to ensure operational readiness. Youll maintain the live source of truth for every vehicles config health and allocation while partnering with software and ops teams to surface insights highlight risks and drive utilization.
Whether you come from aviation autonomous vehicles robotics or automotive systems your understanding of complex hardware/software platforms distributed operations and data-informed decisions will be critical to enabling high-reliability scalable deployment.
What Youll Do
Maintain real-time insight into the location configuration status and readiness of all deployed and test aircraft
Oversee aircraft deployment and reallocation plansprioritizing readiness for operations testing or engineering use cases
Coordinate directly with maintenance production and field ops teams to ensure asset availability and serviceability
Health Monitoring & Risk Management
Own fleet health reporting and anomaly tracking systemsintegrating telemetry and operational data to detect trends or systemic risks
Work cross-functionally to escalate root-cause and remediate vehicle-level or system-level degradation
Lead proactive initiatives to extend uptime reduce turnaround time and improve part reliability
Tooling & Systems Integration
Collaborate with software and data teams to design internal dashboards health monitoring tools and fleet analytics systems
Drive process automation and decision-support tooling based on insights from real-world operationssimilar to FMS or AV fleet data platforms
Support configuration management and data integrity across all aircraft digital records
Planning & Asset Management
Develop Fleet allocation plans that align with fleet growth launch targets and business needs and provide clear delivery targets & schedules to facilitate production planning
Track key metrics like fleet utilization flight hours maintenance intervals and mission success rates
Support engineering and technical validation efforts by allocating aircraft and facilitating test coverage
Documentation & Standardization
Establish and scale consistent processes for fleet intake deployment issue tracking and cross-team handoffs
Document asset status and configuration histories to support audit readiness and regulatory compliance (FAA Part 135)
Ensure enterprise-wide access to fleet insights for strategic and tactical decision-making
What Youll Bring
5 years of experience in fleet management autonomous vehicle operations robotics deployment aerospace systems or automotive logistics
Demonstrated ability to manage high-value software-enabled hardware systems across distributed operations
Familiarity with telemetry systems health monitoring platforms or vehicle fleet data
Proven success navigating cross-functional environmentsbalancing engineering ops and business priorities
Strong project management and systems thinking capabilities
Comfort with ambiguity change and building structure where none exists
Ability to travel to flight test production and commercial sites (20%)
Preferred Qualifications
Background in UAS FAA-regulated flight operations or Part 135 commercial logistics
Experience building or maintaining fleet dashboards (e.g. Tableau Looker custom monitoring tools)
Familiarity with digital twin systems CMMS tools or issue-tracking systems (e.g. Jira internal tooling)
Exposure to hardware/software interface issues in real-time systems (e.g. robotics EVs drones AVs)
What Else You Need to Know
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
