Maintenance Controller

Maintenance Controller

Full Time Professionals Miami, FL, US

7 days ago Requisition

The Maintenance Controller oversees and coordinates real-time aircraft maintenance activities to ensure fleet safety, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness. Acting as a central point of coordination, this role supports both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance by providing technical guidance, facilitating communication across internal teams and outstations, and ensuring timely resolution of discrepancies.

The position plays a key role in managing maintenance events, including AOG situations, while ensuring all actions align with FAA regulations, manufacturer requirements, and Company procedures.

This role requires schedule flexibility, including the ability to adjust shifts and provide coverage during colleagues’ vacation and sick leave.

Operating in a fast-paced, 24/7 environment, the Maintenance Controller must demonstrate strong technical judgment, effective communication, and a proactive approach to maintaining safe and efficient aircraft operations.

• Review log pages for accuracy before the airplane leaves.
• Ensure any corrective action required by defects recorded in the aircraft log by the flight crews at out stations is corrected or deferred by licensed and qualified personnel or facility in accordance with the Amerijet GMM 7-1, GMM 4-9 and the applicable Company minimum equipment list.
• Review the qualifications of the personnel or facility assigned to accomplish unscheduled maintenance or repairs at outstations and issuing any one‑time authorization that may be required in accordance with GMM 7-50.
• Ensure that unscheduled maintenance and repairs to Company aircraft are accomplished in accordance with applicable manufacturers manuals or the Company’s publications and the aircraft is returned to service as required by GMM 4-11, GMM 4-23 and GMM 7-1.
• Communicate with the Materials department about the requisition parts required for unscheduled aircraft maintenance and repairs.
• Ensure deferred item record keeping and distribution of paperwork are accomplished as required by the Amerijet GMM Chapter 7 Section 8.
• Communicate all pertinent information regarding defect deferral or repair procedures and requirements to the Captain of the aircraft, Maintenance personnel involved at the outstation Amerijet Flight Followers on duty.
• Provide details and specific instruction to troubleshoot and clear aircraft discrepancies.
• Provide a written “turnover report”, consisting of the occurrences on the duty shift, to the incoming shift controller. This will be done every shift, even when no deferrals or outstation maintenance is accomplished.
• Provide “aircraft on ground” (AOG) information to the Manager of Maintenance Control, Director of Maintenance and Quality Control.
• Complete the Maintenance Delay I Out of Service Reports as required by the Amerijet GMM 7-36, providing a Weekly Delay Report to the Manager of Maintenance Control, the Directors of Maintenance and Quality Control.
• Advise the FAA and the Quality Control department promptly of any incidents or aircraft delays that may require FAA reporting in accordance with 14 CFR 121.705. Refer to GMM 7-5.
• Prepare the aircraft status and morning meeting reports.
• Verify part interchangeability on request from the Material department.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

• Become familiar with the Company policies, procedures, duties and responsibilities of the position and all subordinate maintenance staff as set forth in this General Maintenance Manual (GMM) and associated flight operations staff as set forth in the General Operations Manual.
• Promote Amerijet’s #1 value of safety as a Safety Ambassador, supporting Amerijet’s Safety Management System (SMS) components, Safety Policy, and behavioral standards.
• Identify safety concerns, issues, incidents, or hazards that should be reported and report them whenever possible and by any means necessary including Amerijet’s confidential reporting systems (Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) or Safety Action Report (SAR)).
• Adhere to all applicable laws, regulations…