Senior Manager, Maintenance ControlLocation: Denver, CO
Salary: $135,000-$163,873
Application deadline: December 10, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. MT
Lead Maintenance Control across Frontier's operation As
Senior Manager, Maintenance Control, you'll have overall responsibility for the department, including staffing, budgeting and day-to-day operational leadership.
You'll serve as the senior-level authority for system maintenance decisions and coordinate closely with Flight Dispatch, System Operations Control, Station Operations, Line and Heavy Maintenance, Inspection, Engineering and Purchasing to support continued safe operations.
You'll also lead Safety Management System activities, oversee maintenance-control programs and processes, develop your team and help drive improvements that reduce operational disruption while maintaining regulatory and company standards.
Leadership scope This role reports to Director, Maintenance Control Center and has several direct reports.
What you'll do Lead Maintenance Control operations - Manage the daily activities of MCC, ensuring safe aircraft are continuously available for scheduled service.
- Ensure seamless transitions between personnel and shifts and provide ongoing fleet-wide mechanical-status briefings to the Director, Maintenance Control and senior leadership.
- Provide technical assistance and guidance to Line Maintenance, Contract Maintenance, RON Maintenance and Heavy Check Maintenance personnel.
- Define required maintenance actions to address aircraft discrepancies.
- Help track and drive efforts to reduce maintenance-related delays and cancellations.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for the Director, Maintenance Control and senior management.
Lead Safety Management System responsibilities - Manage, monitor and coordinate assigned Safety Management System activities.
- Coordinate the development, implementation, maintenance and integration of SMS throughout Frontier.
- Support hazard identification and safety risk assessments, including change management.
- Ensure the effectiveness of safety risk controls.
- Advise the accountable executive on SMS performance and opportunities for improvement.
- Maintain accountability for safety performance related to assigned responsibilities.
- Manage risk within acceptable levels as defined by Frontier's company risk matrix.
- Promote safety and demonstrate sound operational judgment and situational awareness.
Develop people, capability and department performance - Develop the knowledge, skills, capabilities, capacity, proficiency and workflows of assigned personnel to support business results.
- Create and administer work schedules, performance objectives, goals and training for MCC and Technical Services personnel.
- Monitor and prepare pay recap information, including vacation and sick time.
- Develop broad knowledge of airline operational teams and how Maintenance Control interacts with them.
- Build understanding across the team of how Maintenance Control decisions affect operational performance and the customer experience.
- Participate in strategic planning and lead implementation of long-term objectives.
Maintain compliance, documentation and program quality - Ensure required audits and internal self-audits are completed accurately and on time.
- Identify root causes and implement mitigating actions for inspection findings or corrective action reports.
- Ensure the quality of operational MEL, CDL and NEF program processes.
- Manage auditing of completed work packages to support accurate and compliant documentation.
- Ensure assigned work documents and records are complete and accurate.
- Participate in CASS, Reliability Board, GMM and Action Item meetings.
- Ensure personnel maintain required training and qualifications to perform assigned tasks in departments without supervisors, as applicable.
Support technical communication and coordination - Maintain strong communication across Maintenance Control and partner departments.
- Collect, organize and communicate technical information clearly and accurately.
- Support effective communication with internal teams, leaders and operational partners.
What you'll bring - FAA-certificated mechanic with Airframe and Powerplant ratings, plus at least five years of combined heavy maintenance, line maintenance and Maintenance Control experience.
- At least five years of supervisory or management experience in a maintenance operations environment, with proven leadership and motivational skills and the ability to plan, organize and administer workloads for assigned personnel.
- Strong knowledge of maintenance operations and a working knowledge of Airbus aircraft.
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, including listening, questioning, clarity, conciseness, empathy and trust-building, with the ability to communicate effectively across departments.
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to remain effective in high-pressure operational situations.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Access, with the ability to collect data, serve as a technical-content resource and logically organize information for publication.
- Ability to successfully complete required Maintenance Training Required Inspection Item coursework.
- Four-year college degree preferred.
- FCC Radio License preferred.
- Commitment to Frontier's core values: customer first, safety always, operational excellence and one team.
Support for work, life and travel Frontier offers benefits, programs and travel privileges designed to support eligible employees at work and beyond. Availability may vary by role, employment status, eligibility, location, schedule, applicable policies and current plan details.
Depending on role and eligibility, available benefits and programs may include:
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement savings options
- Paid holidays, vacation time and sick time
- Travel privileges on Frontier Airlines and participating partner airlines, based on current program rules and availability
- Buddy passes, based on eligibility and program rules
- Travel-related discounts and employee discounts on select products, services and vendors
- Employee support programs and resources, including the HOPE League, Frontier Airlines' nonprofit organization
