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Position Summary
The Executive Recruiting Leader will lead executive recruiting for StandardAero's most senior and business-critical leadership positions while building and establishing a dedicated executive recruiting function for the enterprise.
Partnering directly with the CEO, Executive Leadership Team (ELT), Senior Leadership Team (SLT), and Human Resources leadership, this individual will personally execute high-impact executive searches while developing the strategy, processes, tools, and talent pipelines needed to create a sustainable internal executive search capability.
This highly visible role requires a hands-on executive search professional with the business acumen, executive presence, and entrepreneurial mindset to serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership while building a best-in-class executive recruiting function.
What You'll Do
- Lead full-cycle executive searches for ELT, SLT, and other critical senior leadership positions across all business sectors and corporate functions.
- Partner with the CEO, CHRO, and senior leaders to understand business priorities, define leadership requirements, and develop effective search strategies.
- Build and establish StandardAero's executive recruiting function, including its operating model, processes, tools, assessment practices, and reporting.
- Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies through talent mapping, competitive intelligence, networking, and direct engagement with executive talent.
- Build long-term external leadership pipelines to support anticipated hiring needs and succession planning.
- Serve as a trusted talent advisor, providing senior leaders with market intelligence, candidate assessments, and strategic recommendations.
- Lead executive candidate evaluation, selection, and offer negotiations in partnership with senior stakeholders.
- Establish consistent executive recruiting standards that deliver an exceptional candidate and stakeholder experience.
- Manage external executive search firm relationships while expanding internal search capabilities and reducing reliance on external partners.
- Establish measures of executive recruiting effectiveness and continuously evolve the function to support business growth and changing leadership needs.
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years of executive search experience within the Aviation / Aerospace industry.
- Bachelor's degree
Desired Characteristics
- Experience building, leading, or transforming executive recruiting functions or capabilities, ideally within a complex global organization.
- Exceptional executive presence and the ability to influence and advise CEOs, CHROs, and senior business leaders.
- Strong business acumen and the ability to translate organizational strategy into executive talent requirements.
- Advanced executive sourcing, talent mapping, competitive intelligence, and assessment capabilities.
- Proven ability to engage and build relationships with highly sought-after passive executive talent.
- Strategic and entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to balance hands-on recruiting with building scalable processes and capabilities.
- Excellent communication, relationship management, judgment, and discretion.
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of executive search experience within the aviation or aerospace industry
- Bachelor's degree
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.
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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.
