Maintenance Support Branch Manager

Maintenance Support Branch Manager

The Maintenance Support Branch Manager directs and coordinates the overall function of the maintenance support for T-1, T-6, and T-38 aircraft maintenance, flying schedules, and other Department activities.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Ensures the execution of on and off aircraft maintenance tasks, and other Branch activities are being accomplished in a safe appropriate manner acceptable to the Government and in accordance with the contract performance work statement/statement of work.
• Enforces strict adherence to technical data and management procedures. Adjusts resources to meet production requirements.
• Assigns adequate supervisory coverage for each shift.
• Manages the special certification roster.
• Ensure accurate daily documentation of maintenance actions.
• Assess the suitability of aircraft with repeat, recur and cannot duplicate discrepancies for continued flight.
• Reviews and evaluates management and production effectiveness. Analyzes personnel and equipment performance history using quality assurance reports. Initiates management actions to meet new workloads or correct reported/perceived deficiencies.
• Manages the maintenance planning cycle.
• Ensure only qualified personnel accomplish maintenance with the appropriate equipment and tools.
• Ensure compliance with safety directives, appropriate occupational safety and health standards, and applicable industrial safety publications. Those occupational training requirements that require documentation will be annotated on the appropriate records.
• Establishes procedures to minimize foreign object damage and dropped objects.
• Ensure pilot reported discrepancies, scheduled, and unscheduled maintenance actions are entered and completed in aircraft forms and the Maintenance Information System. This includes maintenance performed in support of maintenance squadron flights.
• Advises the production supervisor of conditions that may disrupt the orderly and controlled execution of the maintenance plan.
• Fully understand and be prepared to implement specific on-base disaster control duties and squadron responsibilities pertaining to aircraft/SE movement and personnel evacuation procedures.
• Ensure the Aircraft Maintenance Department Director is kept informed of all maintenance activities.
• Manage vehicles and facilities.
• Perform all other position-related duties as assigned or requested.
• This position requires a minimum 40-hour work week, Monday through Friday, and some weekends.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Associate degree in related field
• Eight (8) years' relative experience, five (5) years of which must be Department of Defense experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of ten (10) years of directly related experience, seven (7) years of which must be Department of Defense experience and,
• Minimum of seven (7) years supervisorial experience with general aviation, military aircraft, or manufacturing.
• Must possess ability to understand and comply with Government publications and technical orders.
• Must possess the ability to perform analytical analysis and apply risk management techniques.
• Experience in conflict resolution, team building, and coaching skills.

Preferred Qualification:

• Prior experience with a unionized workforce highly desired.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, ancestry, United States military or veteran status, color, religion, creed, marital or domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, citizenship status, low-income status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.