Assistant Operations Manager

Salary Range: $54,000 - $65,000 per year

The Assistant Operations Manager supports daily operations of an FAA-regulated aviation organization operating under 14 CFR Part 21 and Part 145
. This Includes ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant production, maintenance, inspection, repair, overhaul, and quality-control activities. The Assistant Operations Manager will work closely with the Operations Manager, Quality and Engineering, to ensure that all work is performed in accordance with FAA regulations, approved data, customer requirements, company procedures, and the organization's approved manuals.

• Perform work as a technician 20+ hours a week
• Support in maintaining compliance with FAA requirements under 14 CFR Part 21 and 145
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• Support compliance with the Repair Station Manual (RSM), Quality Control Manual (QCM), Production/Quality procedures, and other FAA-approved or accepted company manuals.
• Ensure personnel follow approved procedures, work instructions, engineering data, and applicable FAA requirements.
• Assist with FAA inspections, audits, investigations, and corrective actions.
• Support preparation for FAA surveillance and maintain readiness for regulatory and customer audits.
• Ensure required records and documentation are complete, accurate, traceable, and properly retained.

• Assist with oversight of manufacturing and production activities performed under the organization's Part 21 authorization.
• Ensure production personnel work from current and approved technical data.
• Support configuration control, material traceability, inspection requirements, and production documentation.
• Coordinate with Engineering and Quality regarding nonconformances, deviations, discrepancies, and corrective actions.
• Assist with daily inspection, overhaul, modification, and repair activities.
• Monitor workflow, manpower, tooling, equipment, and facility requirements to meet production schedules.
• Ensure maintenance and repair work is accomplished using current applicable maintenance data.
• Verify that required inspections and inspections buy-backs are completed by appropriately authorized personnel.
• Assist with ensuring personnel qualifications, training, and authorization requirements are maintained.
• Support proper completion and review of work orders.
• Ensure parts, materials, tools, and equipment are properly controlled and identified.

• Promote a strong safety and quality culture throughout the organization.
• Work with the Quality/Inspection Department to identify and resolve quality issues.
• Assist with root-cause investigations and corrective/preventive actions.
• Monitor recurring discrepancies and trends and recommend improvements.
• Ensure suspected unapproved parts, nonconforming materials, and questionable components are properly identified, segregated, and reported in accordance with company procedures.
• Support internal audits and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Supervise and direct production, maintenance, inspection, and support personnel.
• Help establish daily priorities and allocate personnel according to workload and qualifications.
• Help monitor employee performance, attendance, training, and compliance with company procedures.
• Assist with employee coaching, performance evaluations, and disciplinary matters when required.
• Promote teamwork, accountability, professionalism, and adherence to aviation safety standards.

The Assistant Operations Manager is authorized, within the limits established by company procedures and assigned responsibilities to:

• Direct daily operational activities.
• Assign qualified personnel to work.
• Stop work when safety, quality, regulatory compliance, or airworthiness may be compromised.
• Escalate nonconforming conditions and regulatory concerns to appropriate management.
• Recommend corrective actions and process improvements.
• Coordinate resources necessary to meet operational requirements

• Monitor work-in-progress and identify potential schedule or resource problems.
• Help develop and implement process improvements that increase efficiency without compromising safety or regulatory compliance.

• Ensure work orders, inspection records, production records, FAA-required documentation are properly completed.
• Verify that records are legible, accurate, traceable, and retained according to applicable requirements.
• Assist with maintaining employee training and qualification records.
• Support document-control…