Staff Maintenance Expediter

What you'll do

• Coordinate daily maintenance flow for VBAT aircraft in depot maintenance, ensuring technicians have the parts, tools, ground support equipment, and information needed to complete work efficiently.
• Plan, prioritize, and track scheduled and unscheduled maintenance actions to support aircraft return-to-service timelines.
• Monitor aircraft status, maintenance drivers, estimated time in commission/return to service, open discrepancies, part shortages, and work center constraints.
• Order required parts with the appropriate priority, track document/order numbers, and communicate status updates to technicians, production leadership, supply chain, and other stakeholders.
• Identify and remove roadblocks affecting maintenance execution, including parts delays, support equipment availability, technical coordination, staffing constraints, and external support requirements.
• Coordinate with supply chain, logistics, and material support teams to resolve backorders, due-outs, part substitutions, repair cycle issues, and turn-in requirements.
• Ensure ground support equipment is available, serviceable, and positioned where needed to support maintenance operations.
• Maintain accurate maintenance status trackers, production boards, shift pass-downs, and other reporting tools used to manage aircraft flow through depot maintenance.
• Support maintenance planning meetings and provide clear updates on aircraft status, constraints, priorities, and recovery plans.
• Work closely with technicians, leads, quality, engineering, supply chain, and production leadership to ensure maintenance is completed safely, accurately, and efficiently.
• Reinforce maintenance discipline, documentation accuracy, tool control, safety, and compliance with applicable technical data and local procedures.

Required qualifications

• Prior military aviation maintenance experience.
• Experience coordinating aircraft maintenance operations in a flightline, depot, phase, back shop, or production environment.
• Strong understanding of aircraft maintenance flow, maintenance priorities, aircraft status tracking, and return-to-service requirements.
• Experience ordering, tracking, and expediting aircraft parts or maintenance materials.
• Familiarity with supply chain, logistics, backorders, due-outs, repairable parts, consumables, bench stock, or similar aviation material control processes.
• Experience working with ground support equipment, aerospace ground equipment, or aircraft support equipment.
• High level of organizational skill with the ability to manage multiple aircraft, work orders, parts issues, and technician priorities at the same time.
• Strong communication skills and ability to provide concise status updates to technicians, supervisors, and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced maintenance environment and make sound prioritization decisions under schedule pressure.

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience as a military maintenance expediter, production superintendent, crew chief, dock chief, section lead, or maintenance controller.
• Experience with depot-level maintenance, phase/isochronal inspections, modification lines, or aircraft heavy maintenance.
• Experience with unmanned aircraft systems, Group 3/4/5 UAS, or VBAT operations.
• Experience using maintenance information systems, aircraft status dashboards, ERP systems, inventory systems, or production tracking tools.
• Familiarity with ETIC/return-to-service tracking, aircraft forms/documentation, deferred discrepancies, awaiting parts status, and maintenance production meetings.
• Strong working knowledge of aviation safety, tool control, FOD prevention, technical data compliance, and maintenance documentation standards.