Aircraft Vendor Maintenance Representative

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Aircraft Vendor Maintenance Representative to provide on-site technical oversight and coordination for aircraft undergoing maintenance at third-party repair facilities. This individual will serve as a key liaison between internal maintenance and engineering teams and external maintenance vendors, ensuring work is completed safely, accurately, on schedule, and in accordance with established maintenance requirements.

This is a fully on-site role based in Oklahoma City, OK and requires significant Boeing 737 heavy maintenance experience along with an active FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) License.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the on-site technical liaison between the organization and assigned maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) vendors.
• Monitor Boeing 737 heavy maintenance work in progress to ensure workmanship, quality, and compliance with approved work scopes and applicable specifications.
• Oversee major maintenance events, including technical findings, non-routine discrepancies, repairs, and changes to the planned work scope.
• Review aircraft discrepancies and coordinate appropriate corrective actions with maintenance, engineering, quality, and vendor teams.
• Authorize or coordinate changes to maintenance work scopes as conditions evolve during maintenance events.
• Track maintenance progress and proactively identify issues that could impact safety, quality, cost, or aircraft delivery schedules.
• Maintain detailed and accurate records of discrepancies, findings, corrective actions, and other maintenance activity.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure required technical information and dispositions are provided to maintenance vendors in a timely manner.
• Perform or support root-cause analysis of significant aircraft discrepancies identified before or during maintenance.
• Maintain working knowledge of applicable vendor maintenance agreements and ensure work is performed according to established requirements.
• Review vendor invoices, supplemental charges, warranty claims, and billing discrepancies as needed.
• Recommend improvements to maintenance programs, work specifications, repair procedures, and preventative actions based on findings during heavy maintenance.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with applicable regulatory, safety, quality, and Safety Management System (SMS) requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Active FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) License required.
• 6+ years of heavy aircraft maintenance experience required.
• Significant hands-on and/or technical oversight experience with Boeing 737 aircraft required.
• Demonstrated experience supporting heavy maintenance events, major maintenance checks, aircraft overhaul, major repairs, or modification programs.
• Strong understanding of aircraft maintenance procedures, inspections, discrepancies, non-routine findings, and corrective actions.
• Experience working with technical maintenance documentation, work packages, work scopes, maintenance manuals, specifications, and/or engineering instructions.
• Ability to assess maintenance issues and understand their potential impact on airworthiness, safety, quality, cost, and schedule.
• Strong communication and documentation skills with the ability to coordinate effectively across maintenance, engineering, quality, materials, and vendor teams.
• Ability to work 100% on-site in Oklahoma City, OK.

Important: Candidates whose experience is primarily line/light maintenance without substantial heavy maintenance experience will not meet the requirements for this role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience as an Aircraft Maintenance Representative, Heavy Maintenance Representative, Technical Representative, MRO Representative, or Vendor Maintenance Representative.
• Experience representing an airline or aircraft operator at an external MRO or repair facility.
• Experience supporting Boeing 737 heavy checks/C-checks or comparable major maintenance visits.
• Knowledge of FAA Part 121 airline operations and/or Part 145 repair station environments.
• Experience with vendor maintenance contracts, invoice review, warranty claims, supplemental work, and cost management.
• Familiarity with Safety Management Systems (SMS).
• Experience coordinating with aircraft engineering teams and/or OEM technical representatives.

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