Manager - Line Maintenance; Cleveland, OH

• Location:
  
  Cleveland, OH | CLE
• Salary range: $100,104–$132,870

This role provides shift-level leadership for line maintenance activities at an assigned Frontier maintenance base. You’ll oversee maintenance production, coordinate across operational and technical teams, manage staffing and resources, and help ensure aircraft are returned to service safely, compliantly and on schedule.

You’ll work closely with Station Operations, Flight Operations, Flight Dispatch, Maintenance Control, Maintenance Planning, Inspection and business partners to keep maintenance activity aligned with daily operational needs.

Depending on station structure, this role may supervise Line Maintenance Supervisors and other applicable maintenance-support personnel.

Line Maintenance sits at the intersection of aircraft safety and daily airline operations. In this role, your decisions help determine how maintenance work is prioritized, how resources are deployed and how aircraft are safely returned to service while supporting Frontier’s operational schedule.

Keep aircraft safe, compliant and ready for service

• Provide shift-level management, operational control, oversight and procedural guidance for line maintenance activities.
• Develop maintenance plans and prioritize work to support safe and timely aircraft return to service.
• Ensure shift-level compliance with Frontier maintenance manuals, company policies and applicable Code of Federal Regulations.
• Maintain accurate, timely communication with Maintenance Control and Maintenance Planning to support completion of scheduled maintenance.
• Ensure maintenance documentation is completed accurately, entered into applicable tracking systems and submitted to Maintenance Records.
• Coordinate with other departments and organizations to support safety, compliance and operational performance.
• Escalate issues or conflicts that may affect daily operational objectives.

• Manage labor schedules to ensure required staffing capacity for planned and actual maintenance activity.
• Assign Lead and A&P Mechanics to work packages where applicable.
• Determine staffing requirements for assigned maintenance work and station operations.
• Determine Maintenance Mechanic and Supervisor work schedules where applicable.
• Provide direct management of support-shop personnel and production activity where applicable.
• Prepare performance assessments for direct reports where applicable.
• Approve vacation requests for direct reports where applicable.
• Ensure compliance with applicable labor agreements and contracts.

• Verify that line maintenance tooling is available, maintained, calibrated and controlled to support daily maintenance requirements.
• Coordinate charters and field trips, including required tooling, parts, materials, hazardous materials and manuals.
• Determine the serviceability of Frontier tooling.
• Assign field trips as required.
• Maintain and track operational performance KPIs and provide reporting when requested.

• Manage, monitor and coordinate assigned SMS activities.
• Identify hazards and safety risks.
• Support safe decision-making and risk management throughout assigned maintenance operations.

This role carries significant operational responsibility and, within applicable Frontier procedures and authority, may:

• Determine the airworthiness of a Frontier Airlines aircraft.
• Determine the serviceability of Frontier Airlines tooling.
• Request changes to Frontier Airlines manuals through the PCR process.
• Assign Lead and A&P Mechanics to work packages where applicable.
• Determine staffing…