Aircraft Maintenance Manager

The posting, as Stratolaunch wrote it

Stratolaunch accelerates the development of next-generation aerospace and defense technologies through reusable hypersonic flight testing. Our autonomous, air-launched Talon-A vehicles provide access to operationally realistic flight environments at speeds exceeding Mach 5, delivering critical data that helps customers validate system performance and advance technologies toward deployment. Our team brings together expertise in engineering, manufacturing, and flight operations to solve complex challenges and advance capabilities essential to national security.

Stratolaunch is seeking an Aircraft Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance teams across all company flying assets. Reporting to the Ground Operations Manager, this hands-on leader is accountable for safe, compliant, and efficient execution of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, inspections, troubleshooting, repairs, and modifications in support of flight-test and operational commitments. The supervisor develops people, coordinates resources, and drives aircraft readiness in a fast-paced, complex, and rapidly changing environment.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• This person will be responsible to oversee the crew chiefs, multiple other supervisors.
• Lead daily maintenance across all company flying assets; set priorities, assign work, and ensure safe, timely execution.
• Convert flight-test and operational schedules into maintenance plans covering staffing, shifts, tooling, parts, facilities, and risk.
• Supervise inspections, troubleshooting, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, repairs, component changes, and alterations using approved technical data.
• Coordinate aircraft readiness with Maintenance Control, Flight Operations, pilots, Engineering, Quality, Programs, Supply Chain, Facilities, and EH&S.
• Ensure work packages, logbooks, discrepancy corrections, configuration records, and parts traceability are accurate and completed on time.
• Assign qualified personnel and ensure required inspections, independent checks, and return-to-service activities receive proper authorization.
• Lead shift briefings and turnovers; communicate aircraft status, open discrepancies, risks, constraints, and recovery plans.
• Maintain tool and calibration control, FOD prevention, parts and hazardous-material controls, and organized shop and flight-line areas.
• Manage workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, performance, attendance, and timely corrective action for maintenance personnel.
• Coach technicians and leads; maintain skills matrices, close training gaps, and build succession depth.
• Champion safety culture, Safety Management System principles, procedural compliance, human factors, fatigue awareness, and stop-work responsibility.
• Track aircraft availability, overdue work, repeat defects, and quality escapes; remove barriers and escalate risk.
• Lead root-cause and corrective actions for maintenance errors, repeat defects, and safety or quality concerns.
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Mojave Air & Spaceport is located just outside of Lancaster/Palmdale and is only 95 miles north of Los Angeles. The area offers both affordability and central access to a variety of California's best attractions and landmarks.

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Stratolaunch is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at our company. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Our management team does not tolerate discrimination or harassment at any point during our employees’ and applicants’ time with us, especially with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment during employment. For purposes of transparency, U.S. Citizenship may be required for some positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

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