Obsolescence Specialist

Obsolescence Specialist

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $90,000.00 To $ Annually

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.

Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect.

Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.

This role sits within a core area of Metrea.

AIRMOB is responsible for developing and delivering Metrea’s aerial refueling (AAR) capabilities, ensuring the readiness and operational effectiveness of the tanker fleet. AIRMOB oversees fleet management, maintenance, and airworthiness, working to sustain and enhance refueling operations. It manages the integration of new processes and technologies, ensuring that tanker aircraft remain mission‑ready through effective logistics, maintenance oversight, and regulatory compliance. By coordinating across various teams, AIRMOB ensures the fleet meets both current and future operational needs, supporting a range of specialized air mobility missions.

In this role, you will own the obsolescence and diminishing manufacturing sources problem for AIRMOB’s KC-135R and C-135FR fleet, aircraft that have decades of service still ahead of them despite being out of original production. You will identify component and repair‑source risks before they ground a tail, build the mitigation pathway—whether that is alternate sourcing, PMA evaluation, owner‑produced parts, repair development, or engineered substitution—and coordinate the cross‑functional execution that keeps our aerial refuelling capability sustainable.

You will be successful if our maintainers and crews never lose a mission to a part they should have known was going away.

• Lead AIRMOB’s DMSMS program by identifying obsolescence and material availability risks across the KC-135R and C-135FR fleets and tracking them in AMOS before they impact the line.
• Develop and execute mitigation strategies including alternate part sourcing, PMA evaluation, owner‑produced parts under 14 CFR 21.9, surplus and used serviceable material qualification, repair source development, and engineered substitutions.
• Partner with Quality & Airworthiness (CASS and Reliability) and Maintenance Programs to translate reliability and removal data into early warning signals for at‑risk components.
• Serve as the primary interface among Global Supply Chain, Engineering, Maintenance Operations, the Technical Library, and AIRMOB leadership on obsolescence resolution.
• Build and maintain the obsolescence tracking dashboard in AMOS, documenting status, mitigation owner, and resolution path for every flagged item.
• Develop cost‑benefit analyses for redesign versus repair versus alternate‑source decisions and report obsolescence cost exposure to capability area leadership.
• Engage OEMs, MROs, distributors, and DLA on supply availability, last‑time‑buy opportunities, and capability list amendments.
• Ensure all obsolescence corrective actions are documented and substantiated to satisfy applicable airworthiness requirements, including 14 CFR Parts 21, 43, and 91 as applicable, and the AMMT.

• Seven or more years of aerospace sustainment, supply chain, or engineering experience, including direct work on aircraft component obsolescence or DMSMS.
• Hands‑on familiarity with FAA approval pathways for non‑OEM parts: PMA, owner‑produced parts under 14 CFR…