The Line Store Manager is responsible for overseeing inventory control, supporting daily logistics operations, and ensuring efficient storage and movement of goods. This role ensures the continuous, efficient, and compliant supply of aircraft parts, tooling, consumables, and materials to meet Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) requirements, and support on-time aircraft release. The incumbent will lead a team of store personnel, drive inventory accuracy, manage supplier relationships, and ensure full compliance with aviation inventory regulatory frameworks. This is a critical operational role with direct impact on aircraft availability, cost performance, and safety outcomes.
This position is for our Sanford, Florida location.
Stores Operations Management
- Oversee day-to-day management of line store, ensuring parts availability aligns with maintenance planning and aircraft release schedules
- Maintain accurate inventory records using approved computerized maintenance management systems including real-time stock movement and traceability
- Manage the receipt, inspection, storage, issue, and return of all aviation parts, materials, and consumables in compliance with regulatory and company procedures
- Ensure proper preservation, shelf-life management, and handling of time-limited, hazardous, and serialized components
Inventory Control & Optimization
- Lead cycle counting programs and conduct periodic physical stock takes to maintain inventory accuracy targets
- Identify and manage slow-moving, obsolete, and surplus stock, initiating disposal or return-to-vendor actions as appropriate
- Monitor and report on key inventory KPIs including fill rate, stock accuracy, and inventory turnover
Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance
- Maintain full documentation and traceability for all aircraft parts.
- Manage quarantine and unserviceable component processes, ensuring segregation and proper disposition in accordance with regulatory requirements
Team Leadership & Development
- Establish clear performance expectations, conduct regular performance touchpoints, and facilitate professional development planning
- Foster a safety-first, compliance-driven culture within the stores team
- Manage workforce rostering, leave planning, and resources to meet operational demands
Experience Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in warehousing and logistics. Aviation stores, parts management, or MRO logistics experience a plus, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or management capacity.
- Demonstrated experience managing stores operations within a regulated environment
Leadership & Interpersonal Skills:
- Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and develop teams
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to produce clear operational reports and briefs
- High-level analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to make sound decisions under operational pressure
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment
- Integrity and commitment to safety culture, compliance, and ethical conduct
Flexjet is an equal-opportunity employer. We aim to choose individuals who have the highest integrity; those who personify genuine concern for customers and fellow employees alike. More than anything, we look for individuals who grasp the importance of trust in an employer/employee relationship.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years' experience in warehousing and logistics
- At least 2 years supervisory or management experience
- Experience managing stores operations within a regulated environment
- Familiarity with computerized maintenance management systems and real-time stock traceability
- Knowledge of preservation, shelf-life management, hazardous and serialized component handling
- Experience leading teams, performance management, and workforce rostering
- Strong stakeholder management, cross-functional communication, and reporting skills
- High-level analytical and problem-solving skills under operational pressure
- Commitment to safety culture, compliance, and ethical conduct
- Aviation stores, parts management, or MRO logistics experience
Flexjet Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Flexjet and has not been reviewed or approved by Flexjet.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 6%, with pilots eligible for added company retirement contributions and a deferred compensation program that begins after year three. Feedback suggests these features lift total retirement value beyond base pay for pilots and certified technicians.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Pilot work rules emphasize home basing across 115+ domiciles, company-paid positioning on scheduled days, no reserve or calls on days off, and the ability to keep hotel and airline points. A high per diem and company-paid training further support day-to-day quality of life.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Pay is considered to have improved for pilots in 2024+, with first-year totals rising and base pay viewed as good relative to some Part 135 operators. Feedback suggests several non-flying roles track at industry standard or slightly above, aligning with local market medians.
Flexjet Insights
What We Do
Flexjet first entered the fractional jet ownership market in 1995. Flexjet offers fractional jet ownership and leasing. Flexjet’s fractional aircraft program is the first in the world to be recognized as achieving the Air Charter Safety Foundation’s Industry Audit Standard, is the first and only company to be honored with 21 FAA Diamond Awards for Excellence, upholds an ARG/US Platinum Safety Rating and is IS-BAO compliant at Level 2. Flexjet’s fractional program fields an exclusive array of business aircraft—some of the youngest in the fractional jet industry, with an average age of approximately six years. In 2015, Flexjet introduced Red Label by Flexjet, which features the youngest fleet in the industry, flight crews dedicated to a single aircraft and the LXi Cabin Collection of interiors. To date there are more than 40 different interior designs across its fleet, which includes the Embraer Phenom 300, Challenger 350, the Embraer Legacy 450 and Praetor 500, Global Express, the Gulfstream G450, G500, G650 and G700, and the Aerion AS2 supersonic business jets. Flexjet is a member of the Directional Aviation family of companies. For more details on innovative programs and flexible offerings, visit www.flexjet.com or follow us on Twitter @Flexjet and on Instagram @FlexjetLLC.







