Test Maintenance Program Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own program-level delivery for test maintenance across NestZ, Nest0, Truckzilla, Cascades, and new test sites: set milestones, assign owners, enforce deadlines, and be accountable for program outcomes.
• Translate floor-level maintenance needs into program plans: capture tooling, parts, documentation, technician training, inspections, configuration baselines, and return-to-service assumptions.
• Act as the primary programmatic link between Maintenance Ops Engineering, Flight Test, Engineering, Product, and site operations—drive cross-functional decisions and escalate unresolved risks to stakeholders.
• Maintain and own configuration and modification tracking for all active test aircraft: ensure change-control compliance, run configuration audits, and close corrective actions.
• Track and report measurable readiness metrics and SLAs (e.g., percent of aircraft meeting campaign-ready criteria, mean time to return-to-service, blocker closure rate) on a cadence tied to campaign schedules.
• Run regular Test Maintenance Program Updates for leadership and site teams that surface blockers, decisions needed, impacts to flight-test velocity, and resource gaps.
• Design and deploy dashboards, checklists, and workflows that reduce technician administrative burden and speed maintenance execution.
• Convert test-site lessons into standard work, tooling requirements, documentation updates, validated training inputs, and go/no-go criteria for commercial handoff.