This is a highly varied, physically active role combining hands on stores functions with inventory purchasing responsibilities. Key responsibilities include (but not limited to):
Safety:
- Environment Health & Safety (EH&S) - Maintain zero accidents and incidents while ensuring compliance to all EH&S regulations
- Report all incidences promptly and in accordance with the safety management system.
Quality & Compliance:
- Review and comply with all DWI instructions relating to relative area.
- Oversee and ensure all documentation (electronic or hard copy) is signed off/stamped as tasks are completed progressively.
- Source and procure aircraft parts, components and materials from approved suppliers, ensuring compliance with aviation regulatory requirements (CASA, FAA, EASA).
- Lead resolution of supplier disputes including invoice discrepancies, delivery shortfalls, quality escapes and pricing disagreements, escalating where required.
Purchasing:
- Manage the end-to-end purchase order process including raising, tracking, expediting and closing purchase orders within our ERP system.
- Actively expedite open purchase orders to achieve on-time delivery commitments aligned to customer turnaround time (TAT) expectations.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date purchase order records including pricing, delivery dates and supplier communications within the ERP system.
- Ensure procurement activities comply with StandardAero policies, OEM requirements and applicable aviation regulatory standards.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with domestic and international suppliers, including manufacturers, distributors and approved vendors.
- Liaise with internal customers including planning, engineering, stores and customer support to ensure parts requirements are clearly communicated and met.
- Support receiving and goods inwards processes, ensuring parts are correctly receipted into inventory with appropriate documentation and airworthiness release.
Parts Picking & Workshop Support
- Pick parts and components to support engine overhaul and repair events, in line with job requirements and priorities
- Respond to counter requests
- Manage and prioritise urgent workshop requests
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StandardAero Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about StandardAero and has not been reviewed or approved by StandardAero.
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Retirement Support — Provides a 401(k) and has added an Employee Stock Purchase Plan and an Incentive Award (equity) plan, expanding long-term savings and ownership options. These programs complement base pay with additional wealth-building mechanisms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Includes PTO, paid holidays, sick time, bereavement leave, military leave, and parental leave, with some roles accruing PTO that can increase with service. Eligibility for benefits typically begins the first day of the month after hire, indicating structured access to time-off programs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Offers tuition assistance, job training/conferences, company events, and an Employee Assistance Program as part of a comprehensive package. The inclusion of learning support and EAP provides development and wellbeing resources beyond core insurance and retirement.
StandardAero Insights
What We Do
StandardAero has become one of the aerospace industry’s largest independent maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) providers. Our company’s success is the outgrowth of the synergistic merger of businesses with complementary specialties that have exponentially increased our capabilities and generated unprecedented customer commitment and value. StandardAero offers extensive MRO services and custom solutions for business aviation, commercial aviation, military, and industrial power customers. Nearly 6,600 professional, administrative and technical employees work in more than 50 major facilities worldwide, with additional strategically located regional service and support centers all across the globe. Services include MRO for aircraft and rotorcraft engines, auxiliary power units, components; airframe services including major alterations; FAA authorized avionics capabilities; comprehensive engineering services; and custom exterior and interior design, completion, and paint. We provide these capabilities through our network of specialized facilities and mobile service teams. StandardAero is owned by Carlyle, a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across four business segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Credit, and Investment Solutions.
