Associate Manager - Aircraft Maintenance, A&P Mechanic

Job Title: Associate Manager, Aircraft Maintenance - A&P Mechanic
Job Code: 46142
Job Location: Rome, Italy
Job Schedule: 5/8: Employees work 8 hours per day, 5 days a week

Job Description:

The Aircraft Maintenance – A&P Mechanic oversees, manages, and performs onsite aircraft and equipment scheduled/unscheduled maintenance, and servicing.  Supervises and performs repairs to aircraft and system components, and engine repairs to ensure that site aircraft are in good mechanical condition and safe for flight. Ensures the contractual required FAA maintenance requirements/standards are maintained and releases aircraft for flight.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to obtain a US Secret security clearance.
• Schedule maintenance and inspections per the Original Equipment Manufacturer technical data.
• Ensures site personnel meet and maintain assigned training and certification requirements.
• Determines corrective action when advised of deficiencies affecting aircraft airworthiness.
• Ensures scheduled and unscheduled inspections in accordance with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) established procedures/specifications.
• Oversees/reviews aircraft maintenance records and historical documents entries.
• Monitors/reviews deficiency reports for adverse trends.
• Monitors in-progress and follow-up inspections during and upon completion of maintenance actions.
• Responsible for ensuring employees maintain common hand tools and special tools in a safe and serviceable condition.
• Responsible for site, customer and company tool accountability procedures to include reporting unserviceable tools and equipment to appropriate responsible party.
• Ensures established policies/procedures and standards are properly complied with.
• Responsible for site compliance with all safety, environmental, security and housekeeping standards.
• Assists in training newly assigned personnel as required.
• Operates vehicles, both special purpose and regular as authorized.
• Accountable for good housekeeping practices, tool control, FOD awareness/prevention and safety at all times with site assigned areas.
• Assists assigned personnel in researching and requisitioning aircraft parts and components and in determining the reparability and serviceability of these assets.
• Monitors bench stock items and tool inventory inspections.
• Actively participates in the Safety Program.
• Discusses discrepancies with aircrews to ensure adequate troubleshooting information and flight data.
• Responsible for strict compliance with all required Communications Security (COMSEC) policies and procedures.
• Obtains quotations from outside repair facilities for components/equipment that cannot be repaired or maintained in-house.
• Recommends procedure changes to improve maintainability of aircraft and required inspections.
• Consults manufacturers' manuals for specifications and determines feasibility of repair or replacement.   
• Willingness and ability to work shifts as assigned 7 days a week, 12 hours a day to support mission requirements.
• Other related duties as required to support contract and mission requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) license.
• Ability to meet all physical requirements associated for deployment OCONUS and CRC.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active US Secret security clearance.
• FAA Inspection Authorization (IA).
• Work experience on King Air airframe and PT-6 associated engines (King Air 350, 200, 1900) highly desired.
• Documented record of management and supervision of same organizations and functions described above.

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