Director of Aircraft Maintenance
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Job Location:
Cleveland, TN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Director of Aircraft Maintenance
Since 2005 Aitheras has worked with premier medical facilities in the US and abroad to transport critically ill or injured patients around the globe safely and quickly.
We are currently seeking a full-time Director of Aircraft Maintenance in Cleveland Ohio. The Director of Maintenance is responsible for scheduled and unscheduled maintenance of fleet aircraft performing preflight checks and management of the employees in the Maintenance Department.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Maintains all logbooks and CAMP reports in a current updated condition and sends weekly Due List reports for all aircraft
- Ensures that adequate maintenance programs are followed in inspecting and repairing all aircrafts.
- Establishes procedures to ensure that the schedulers have a current availability status on all company and managed aircraft.
- Works with the facility manager to ensure that adequate maintenance and inspection facilities are available to meet requirements. Initiates requisitions for stock and material as required.
- Ensures that time limitations on MEL deferred items are tracked and the aircraft are not dispatched for trips when a MEL time limit (or other required maintenance or inspection required) may be exceeded.
- Ensures safe and secure housing and facilities are available for repair station articles personnel parts and equipment. Ensures that adequate firefighting equipment is available to all employees working in the repair station.
- Ensures adequate training equipment materials and qualified personnel to meet the requirements of the repair station to comply with all regulations and manufacturers recommendations.
- Reviews and approves the implementation of corrective actions to any nonconformity issues reported in corrective action reports.
- Serves as the primary contact with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and be knowledgeable of all applicable Federal Aviation Regulations and the Repair Station Manual.
- Directs plans and lays out details of inspection standards methods and procedures used by the repair facilities in complying with all applicable FAA regulations and manufacturers recommendations.
- Maintains maintenance records to FAA standards on all aircraft managed owned operated or serviced.
- Establishes and maintains a close working relationship with the FAAs Principal Maintenance Inspector having certificate responsibility over the companys air carrier operations.
- Ensures that the repair station and training manuals are current; and generates the required changes and coordinates those changes with the FAA when necessary.
- Ensures that the mechanical reports required by FAR 135.415/.416/.417 are submitted. Reviews and verifies employment application data when possible with the FAA and previous employer.
- Monitors and documents training for all Maintenance Department employees.
- Establishes standards to determine the need for original and/or recurrent training of Maintenance Department personnel consistent with the work being performed by the repair station.
- Maintains a personnel file on each Maintenance Department employee that includes preemployment data and evaluates personnel for supervisory roles based on performance records and practical testing by the repair station.
- Takes part in discussions and decisions pertaining to recruiting selecting orienting training assigning scheduling coaching counseling and disciplining Maintenance Department individuals.
- Communicates job expectations and enforces policies and procedures to the Maintenance Department.
- Plans monitors and reviews job contributions of Maintenance Department employees.
Requirements:
- Mechanic certificate with airframe and power plant ratings required
- Have 3 years of experience within the past 3 years maintaining aircraft as a certificated mechanic including at the time of appointment as Director of Maintenance experience in maintaining Cessna Citations; orHave 3 years of experience within the past 3 years repairing aircraft in a certificated airframe repair station including 1 year in the capacity of approving aircraft for return to service.
- To perform this job successfully an individual should be proficient in Corridor in personal computer skills including electronic mail record keeping routine database activity word processing spreadsheet graphics etc.
- This role requires an average knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Must hold an A&P Certificate and meet the requirements of FAR 119.71.
- Experience with Cessna aircraft models required.
Pay:Starting at $100000/yr- offer based on experience
Benefits:
- 401(k) with company match
- Medical
- Dental Insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account (with rollover and company contribution)
- Paid Vacation
If you are interested in this position please submit a current resume
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Aerospace Engineering
- Aircraft Maintenance
- Project Risk Management
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Aircraft Parts
- Aircraft Propulsion
- Aircraft Systems
- Avaition
- Airframe
- Routine Maintenance
- Maintenance Engineering
- Aeronautical Engineering
- Aircraft Structures
- Ground Support Equipment
- Avionics
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