The Production Supervisor directs daily rotary-wing maintenance production operations, assigning work to mechanics and technicians to meet aircraft availability requirements and scheduled delivery dates. This position serves as the primary point of coordination between the maintenance floor, Quality Control, and Production Control, ensuring that all work is performed in accordance with applicable technical orders, manufacturer publications, and contract requirements. The Production Supervisor monitors work-in-progress, resolves production bottlenecks, and enforces compliance with safety, FOD prevention, and tool control programs. They also mentor lead mechanics and provide first-line accountability for workmanship quality and on-time job completion.
Responsibilities- Supports the Site Manager with the overall aircraft maintenance program on the Rotary Wing Aircraft Maintenance and Support Services Contract at Kirtland AFB in accordance with the Performance Work Statement.
- Closely adheres to all Performance Work Statement deliverables to include aircraft metrics (MC rates, MSE, KPI's).
- Manages the overall direction of the maintenance effort and enforces safe maintenance practices.
- Priority is placed on aircraft supporting operational requirements, scheduled and unscheduled aircraft maintenance, and aircraft used for maintenance and/or operations training.
- The production superintendent ensures all required maintenance and logbooks have been completed to support flying day mission requirements.
- Attends the daily maintenance planning meetings for the purpose of incorporating unscheduled maintenance into the weekly and daily maintenance plans.
- Evaluates workload requirements and makes changes to aircraft utilization schedules as required.
- Takes prompt and decisive action to make on-the-spot adjustments to maintenance repair priorities necessitated by unscheduled maintenance requirements.
- Controls and coordinates maintenance activity on the flight-line. Monitor's aircraft maintenance in progress and evaluates estimated completion time against scheduling and planning requirements.
- Anticipates problems and directs changes of flight-line activities to meet mission schedules.
- May be required to coordinate with Maintenance Lead to select workers and assign tasks to be performed.
- When necessary, initiates action to resolve personnel shortages and coordinates requirements with the Site Manager.
- Reviews work in progress or upon completion for compliance with policies and procedures.
- Ensures utilization of proper tools and equipment and adherence to technical data with all maintenance actions.
- Ensures aircraft status is accurately reported in accordance with Air Force instructions, reports, and applicable supplements.
- Works closely with PS&D to ensure that actual aircraft status matches the aircraft status reported in the automated reporting system.
- Performs other duties assigned such as, assisting the Quality Manager with processes and procedures.
- Provides initial and recurring training to the workforce and ensures compliance based on the direction of the Quality Manager.
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in aircraft maintenance management or equivalent or, minimum 10-years aircraft maintenance experience in a supervisory role.
- U.S. citizen with valid driver's license.
- Secret clearance or ability to obtain (preference given to those with clearance).
- Must possess analytical abilities necessary to handle extremely complex administrative, organizational, and aircraft maintenance matters.
- Must deal with the customer and company employees in a courteous, professional, and effective manner.
- Must have completed high school or equivalent.
- Must read, write, speak, and understand English.
Desired Qualifications:- USAF aviation experience.
- Rotary-wing exp.
Job ID2026-24162
Work TypeOn-Site
