Role Purpose The Vice President (GSE) is a senior leadership role with overall responsibility for our GSE operations and business. The role serves to provide the strategic oversight, standardization, and continuous improvement of all Ground Support Equipment (GSE) maintenance operations across our Americas business. This role leads GSE maintenance teams, processes, and compliance while also owning GSE capital planning and purchasing strategies.
This role can be based in Fort Lauderdale or another core USA Menzies Aviation location.
What you will be doing - Provide leadership and oversight of all GSE maintenance operations, ensuring safety, reliability, compliance, and cost effectiveness.
- Establish and standardize maintenance programs, policies, procedures, and KPIs across all locations.
- Lead, develop, and mentor GSE maintenance leadership and technical teams, fostering a strong safety and performance culture.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory, safety, and environmental requirements.
- Apply engineering expertise to drive equipment reliability, lifecycle optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Partner with operations, safety, and procurement teams to support equipment standardization and technical best practices.
Would you like to see more detail on the accountabilities of the role? Please see the attached job description for further information
Safety, Security, Wellbeing and Compliance: You will have a responsibility and duty whilst at work to take reasonable care of the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself and others in accordance with provided information, training, and workplace health and safety rules or procedures. The company is committed to providing a safe working environment for all staff members. In all areas of our business there is a potential risk to the health, safety and welfare to everyone on our sites through the misuse of alcohol and drugs. As such the Company prohibits such misuse and carries out regular testing to enforce our Substance Misuse Policy.
Please see the attached job description for further details on safety, security, wellbeing & compliance.
What we are looking for - Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field (required); advanced degree preferred.
- Progressive leadership experience in GSE maintenance, technical services, or similar heavy equipment environments.
- Proven executive or senior leadership experience managing large, multi-site technical or maintenance organizations.
- Strong working knowledge of GSE maintenance, asset management, and regulatory compliance.
- Demonstrated experience in capital planning, purchasing, and vendor management.
- Proven track record of scaling and growing a business commercially
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Documents
- JD - Vice President (GSE).pdf (131.90 KB)
