Sr. Manager of Heavy Maintenance

About Sun Country Airlines

We're not your average airline. We're agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.

With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline, and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlines provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a great and growing company, as a Sr. Manager of Heavy Maintenance you'll enjoy these benefits and more:

• Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
• PPO and high-deductible health plans
• Health savings accounts (HSA and FSA)
• Dependent Care
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Sr. Manager of Heavy Maintenance Overview:

The Sr. Manager of Heavy Maintenance is responsible for ensuring safety, quality, compliance, and performance metrics are met across all segments of MRO contracted work. Through direct oversight and management of a remote team, the role requires a leader who can adapt to shifting circumstances while upholding industry, company, and contractual standards. The ability to build and maintain a high-functioning team of remote vendor representatives is foundational to the role's requirements. Seamless and professional coordination across multiple stakeholder groups both internal and external is paramount. The Sr. Manager will formalize reporting cadence and content with all vendors to review key metrics against company targets. Interfacing with vendors, the role requires a strategic perspective applied toward heavy maintenance demands and market capacity to establish long-term contracts and partnerships. The Sr. Manager, Heavy Maintenance is responsible for creating and maintaining a culture of safety, efficiency, and budgetary discipline.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Maintain safety culture within Sun Country and our vendor partners
• Ensure safety and Compliance of Sun Country Airlines CAMP
• Lead our team of Heavy Maintenance Representatives
• Drive organizational excellence through collaboration with internal business partners
• Monitor upcoming work packages and ensure proper resources are allocated
• MRO start-up and closure
• Ensure Predictable delivery to schedule forecast
• Collaborate with QA/QC department to ensure vendor qualifications are managed and accurate
• Identify and analyze maintenance problems and implement appropriate corrective actions
• Participate in selection of Airframe MRO placement
• Manage maintenance and cost performance of vendor maintenance
• Assist in Forecasting and establishing aircraft maintenance check schedules
• Manage travel budget and strategy
• Ensure adherence to commercial agreement with Airframe MRO and Sun Country
• Develop accurate financial reporting structure
• Manage Scheduling and Hiring of Vendor reps
• Build strategic IT initiatives with vendor partners for organizational excellence
• Manage aircraft lease transitions
• Assist in quality and warranty investigations and administration
• Conduct all tasks in a safe and efficient manner complying with all local, state, Federal safety and health regulatory requirements, programmatic standards, and with any internal policies and procedures identified by Sun Country Airlines
• Any other duties assigned by management

Required Qualifications:

• Ten or more years of experience in large transport Aircraft at an Airline or Airframe MRO
• Ten or more years in Leadership at an Airframe MRO or Airline
• A&P License
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Ability to effectively communicate, both verbal and written
• Effective leadership and relationship building skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize and organize effectively
• Need keen attention to detail and excellent communication skills
• Self-driven with a strong sense of urgency, demonstrates initiative and adapt to changing priorities
• Must be able to obtain SIDA badge.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Aviation Management
• Leadership Training
• 737NG experience
• TRAX

Compensation:

$120,000.00-135,000.00 USD. This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.

Classification:

Full-Time, Exempt

Work Location:

Fully remote, ability to reside anywhere in the United States. A minimum 50% travel required.

Supervisory Responsibility:

Heavy Check Maintenance Representatives

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers.

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 regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands or finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 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.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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