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Job Description
- Job Title: Senior Manager, Technical Component Repair & Overhaul
- Location: Erlanger, Kentucky
- Company: STS Technical Services
- Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Overview
The Senior Manager, Technical Component Repair & Overhaul provides strategic oversight of a critical supply chain function supporting all customers and fleet types operated by the airline. This role is responsible for managing over $100M+ in spend, developing and executing a balanced strategy that blends component reliability, material availability, and cost control. The Senior Manager collaborates with senior leadership in Material Planning, Technical Purchasing, Procurement, Stores, Reliability, Engineering, Maintenance, and Quality to ensure all regulatory and operational standards are met, fulfilling contractual obligations.
Responsibilities
- Oversee fiduciary duties for the budgeting process and operational execution, managing over $100M in spend.
- Identify strategic initiatives and operational requirements to award multi-million-dollar repair contracts in collaboration with Procurement.
- Develop metrics and KPIs such as Spend to Budget, Turn Around Time, Order Accuracy Rates, and Un-Accrued Order Value to ensure optimal performance of the component repair process and team members.
- Accountable for component scrap process decisions involving assets exceeding $10M annually.
- Collaborate closely with Technical Accounting to balance operational and capital spend in the repair process.
- Lead a team of Repair Analysts, ensuring they have proper training and resources to successfully execute initiatives.
- Ensure component repair process performance supports inventory allocation and fulfillment targets.
- Manage the approved repair vendor list, maintaining a balanced economy of quality vendors.
- Build processes and policies to identify poor-performing vendors and develop strategies to mitigate supply chain risks.
- Collaborate with Engineering Reliability Team leadership to develop strategies that improve component reliability through build specifications.
- Perform other functions as assigned by the Director of Inventory Management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Accounting, Mathematics, Quantitative Analysis, or Business Administration preferred.
- 5+ years of aviation component repair and overhaul experience.
- 5+ years of experience leading a professional staff.
- Extensive knowledge in supply chain processes: component life cycle management, component repair, and contracts.
- Proven ability to present and interact with senior and executive leadership.
- Strong decision-making, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities in a highly visible role.
- Advanced computer skills, including experience with aviation maintenance and engineering systems (experience with TRAX preferred).
About STS Technical Services
STS Technical Services is a Top 100 Staffing Firm that’s partnered with some of the largest names in the aerospace, manufacturing, defense, and industrial industries.
Our professional recruitment teams put talented individuals to work at client locations all over the world, and we have hundreds of exciting career opportunities for you to explore!
If you want to speak to a Recruiting Professional directly, call 1-800-359-4787.
STS Technical Services is an equal opportunity employer.
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