Operations Manager (Clean Line / NDT)
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As an Operations Manager (Clean Line and NDT), you will manage two critical production functions supporting engine repair and overhaul operations. This role combines operations leadership, process engineering and continuous improvement, and strategic capability development to drive safety, quality, delivery, cost, production, and long-term operational performance across the Clean Line and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) teams.
What you'll do:
- Lead daily operations for the Clean Line and NDT teams, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with production schedules, quality requirements, and customer commitments.
- Directs the production planning and scheduling process according to sales volume, sales mix, inventory requirements and materials availability.
- Plans day-to-day operations, assigns manpower, authorizes overtime and controls costs.
- Monitors production yields on a daily basis; makes adjustments as necessary to maintain delivery schedules.
- Coordinates and liaises with production, supply, sales, engineering and customer service to ensure production standards and goals are achieved.
- Establishes and implements policies and procedures needed to achieve the business unit's strategic operating goals.
- Performs capacity planning for equipment, floor space and manpower requirements in accordance with forecasted workload.
- Builds and develops team approaches to problem solving and continuous improvement concepts within the assigned area.
- Produces and maintains measures of performance to graphically display performance-related strengths and weaknesses within the work group.
- Reinforce accountability for accurate documentation, process adherence.
- Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with company safety.
- Monitors, controls and reports on the group's capital expenditures in relation to budgeted amounts.
- Performs administrative activities necessary for the effective management of the work group, including the selecting of employees, pay administration, budget administration, employee safety, employee counseling and motivation, organization goals and objectives, and planning, organizing, integrating and measuring the work performed within the group.
- Actively participates in the business unit management team(s), assisting with the development and realization of strategic plans, budgets, goals and outcomes.
- Partner with Engineering and Quality to address recurring process issues, production constraints, and quality concerns.
- Exercises authority in hiring, training, career development, performance appraisal, salary adjustments, promotion, discipline, health, safety and the general employee relations of direct reports.
- Carries out special projects as assigned.
- May perform production tasks as required, depending on work group size and technical qualifications.
Position Requirements:
- 5+ years in aviation maintenance, operation and testing experience.
- 3+ years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing or production environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing safety, quality, delivery, productivity, capacity, and employee performance.
- Experience with continuous improvement, Lean, root cause analysis, process optimization, or engineering principles.
- Product knowledge of respective business segment is beneficial.
- Strong planning, organizational, analytical, leadership, interpersonal, decision making, oral and written communication skills.
- Strong project management skills.
- Ability to read, understand, and follow company instructions, company processes, administrative policies and procedures, and export compliance regulations.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Preferred Characteristics:
- Experience within an FAA Part 145 Repair Station or similar regulated aviation maintenance environment.
- Turbine engine maintenance, repair, overhaul, inspection, or testing experience.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S, value-stream mapping, or standard work.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
- Working knowledge of production management computer systems.
- Aviation Clean Line and/or Non-Destructive experience preferred.
Benefits that make life better at StandardAero:
- Comprehensive Healthcare
- 401(k) with 100% company match; up to 5% vested
- Paid Time Off starting on day one
- Bonus opportunities
- Health- & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short- & Long-Term Disability
- Life & AD&D Insurance
Learning & Training opportunities
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Skills Required
- 5+ years in aviation maintenance, operation and testing experience.
- 3+ years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing or production environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing safety, quality, delivery, productivity, capacity, and employee performance.
- Experience with continuous improvement, Lean, root cause analysis, process optimization, or engineering principles.
- Strong planning, organizational, analytical, leadership, interpersonal, decision making, oral and written communication skills.
- Strong project management skills.
- Ability to read, understand, and follow company instructions, company processes, administrative policies and procedures, and export compliance regulations.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Product knowledge of respective business segment.
- Experience within an FAA Part 145 Repair Station or similar regulated aviation maintenance environment.
- Turbine engine maintenance, repair, overhaul, inspection, or testing experience.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S, value-stream mapping, or standard work.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
- Working knowledge of production management computer systems.
- Aviation Clean Line and/or Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) experience.
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.
