Associate Maintenance Operations Engineering Lead, Test Sites

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Support day-to-day maintenance execution across Flight Test sites, helping prioritize work, allocate resources, and resolve operational blockers
• Lead and coordinate complex off-nominal maintenance work, including creating and improving work templates to properly capture, track, and close emerging maintenance tasks
• Help own and action the hardware modification process, including planning, coordination, execution support, documentation, and follow-through across affected aircraft and assets
• Assist with running maintenance pilots and trial workflows, then provide structured feedback to engineering and cross-functional teams to improve maintainability, tooling, documentation, and processes
• Coordinate fleet configuration changes and hardware-specific asks across aircraft with different test purposes, maturity levels, and operational requirements
• Support major asset management across multiple fleets, ensuring parts, tools, aircraft, and support equipment are aligned to operational and test priorities
• Manage return-to-service pipelines, inspection status, backlog, and maintenance readiness for active test aircraft
• Ensure accurate maintenance records, modification documentation, and configuration tracking

Job requirements

• Experience supporting flight test, R&D, prototype, or non-standard fleet operations
• Experience with aircraft modification programs, conformity, or configuration management
• Experience designing or improving maintenance workflows, task templates, or documentation systems
• Experience managing mixed fleets or assets with different mission profiles and maintenance needs
• FAA A&P or equivalent technical certification preferred, but not required