Summary The Site Manager is responsible for the overall management, supervision, and performance of the Chico hangar facility and assigned staff. This role ensures safe, efficient, and compliant operations while leading employees, managing resources, maintaining customer satisfaction, and achieving operational and financial objectives. This position is based on-site at Chico Regional Airport hangars, reporting directly to the President.
Specific ResponsibilitiesReasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Oversee day-to-day site operations to ensure productivity, quality, and efficiency.
- Lead, coach, and develop site employees.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and company policies.
- Manage budgets, expenses, staffing, and resources.
- Maintain customer and stakeholder relationships.
- Coordinate maintenance of facilities, equipment, and assets.
- 24-hour contact for emergencies and urgent facility-related issues as they arise, responding and finding solutions.
- Manage projects from inception to completion in a complex, cross-functional and fast paced environment.
- Promote Aero-Flite proactive safety culture, company culture and department values.
- Annual budgeting for location and facility equipment.
- Positive collaboration with company department leadership team.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Collaborative leadership to support team members.
- Exceptional ability to communicate and convey information, inter/ intradepartmental, via multiple mediums.
- Proactive ability and desire to solve problems in a dynamic environment.
- Superior customer & vendor relationship management skills.
- Safety and compliance knowledge, manufacturing environments in CA specific.
- Facilities management and vendor contract management.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality in all matters.
Education and ExperienceRequired Education and Experience - Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 5 years' management experience in aviation, operations, facilities, manufacturing or related industries.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office suite.
- ERP Experience
Preferred Education and Experience - Prior aviation experience is helpful.
Competencies - Deadline oriented and organized
- Detail oriented, independent, flexible, and self-starting.
- Independent, flexible and self-starting.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office.
Supervisory ResponsibilitySite based team members, with cross-functional department specific duties.
Work EnvironmentThis job operates in an office and hangar environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and scanners. The noise level in the work environment is usually at a typical office level and while in the hangar with frequent periods of moderately loud noises. Exposure to industrial chemical smells, fragrances, animals, etc.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is constantly required to move, talk and hear. The employee is constantly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is constantly required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Regular exposure to a hangar environment with walking/traversing hazards, uneven surfaces and stairs.
Job Abilities: Move, traverse - Must be able to move about inside office, hangar with frequent trip/fall and overhead hazards.
Ascend/Descend, Work atop, Traverse - Constantly ascends/descends ladders, platforms and work stands.
Position self (to), Move - Constantly positions self in work environment.
Communicate, Detect, Converse with, Discern, Convey, Express oneself, Exchange information - Must be able to constantly communicate accurate information and a level of assertiveness to stop unsafe activities when recognized.
Balancing - Must be able to constantly manage equilibrium while traversing across office and hangar, ascending/descending ladders, scissor lifts, man lifts, and working at heights greater than six feet from the ground.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work This is a full-time on-site position. Days and hours of work are typically Monday through Friday, 7:00 am to 3:30 pm but will vary based upon business needs. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required.
Travel Frequent travel, primarily local during the business day. Occasionally out-of-area overnight travel may be expected. Local and out-of-area overnight travel may be expected for field visits, business and customer meetings usually within CONUS.
Work Authorization/Security Clearance Valid Driver License
SIDA Badge
Valid Passport
The pay range for this position in California state is $90,000.00-$120,000.00 annually. The annual rate is influenced by a variety of factors including, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, certifications, and geographical locations. Employees will be eligible to enroll in the company's medical/dental/vision insurance, flexible spending account, retirement plan with match contributions, company paid life & disability and financial wellness programs. Hired applicants will receive paid leave and may be eligible for bonuses. This information is provided per the CA State EPA.
