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Customer Technical Manager

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Jul 2026

About the role

Customer Technical Manager in GAC Savannah

Unique Skills:

At Gulfstream, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in inspiring and empowering every individual to reach their fullest potential. From workforce development and meaningful connections to a culture of trust, respect, and integrity, we invest in our employees so they can do their best work and achieve success together. Creating and delivering the world’s finest aviation experience starts with our people and when our people thrive, so does our mission.

Familiarity with the Middle East is preferred. This is a Savannah based position.

This position will be assigned to special accounts for Saudi Arabia. Gulfstream Aerospace support teams and operators, supporting real-time assistance and operational needs, including participation in off-hour conference calls and occasional international travel.
Demonstrate technical proficiency across current Gulfstream production aircraft, including strong comprehensive/operational knowledge and experience with at least one of the following: mechanical systems, avionics/electrical systems, and aircraft structures.
Apply strong working expertise to diagnose, analyze, and resolve technical issues involving aircraft systems and structural components across the Gulfstream fleet. Collaborate with and lead cross functional teams to determine root cause and corrective actions to mitigate failures.
Demonstrate willingness to learn AHTMS data research tools such as Databricks, SQL, and Power BI for event‑based analysis and fleet‑wide issue investigation.
Interpret and utilize aircraft technical documentation with a high level of accuracy, including AMM, IPC, SGERs, GERs, MMEL, AFM, engineering drawings, and other technical publications.

Education and Experience Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Management, Aviation Maintenance, or Engineering Tech required or equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. 10 years of related aircraft maintenance or operations experience. 3 years maintenance or operations experience with specific Gulfstream aircraft model (i.e. GV/G550/G450, GIV, GII/GIII, G100, G200. Supervisory or Management experience required. A&P (FAA Airframe and Powerplant) license preferred.

Position Purpose:

The Customer Technical Manager acts as the primary representative for customer interactions when managing complex support events and aspects related to Gulfstream model aircraft maintenance, operations, and programs affecting customer operations. Recovering relationships between Gulfstream and customer via complex problem resolution. Customer Technical Managers develop and maintain effective controls for budgets, manpower usage, schedules, procedures, and policies to achieve maximum utilization of all resources during support events.

Job Description

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

Essential Functions:

Under the guidance of VP of Field Services, Director of Technical Support, and Regional Directors, helps to resolve customer support issues.

Travel to Gulfstream/ AWRF facilities or to remote locations as the project manager to coordinate support for complex support events.

Coordinate with Gulfstream/ AWRF facilities or to remote locations as the project manager to coordinate support for complex Managed Programs and/or Reliability Enhancement events.

Tactical oversight of escalated customer issues to include coordination of complex maintenance projects and service center events and the elements used to resolve them, such as, TechOps, engineering, part sales, FAST, and SC resources.

Identify, develop, and implement programs that help prevent future aircraft downtime that will meet Customer Support business priorities.

Responsible for resolving customer issues as related to Gulfstream fleet aircraft maintenance, operations, and programs.

Provides coordination and communication with the following Customer Support and Production areas: TechOps, FlightOps, Maintainability, Material Services (Spares & GSE), Publications, RSM, Service Center, Reliability, Technical Training (Gulfstream, Customer & FSI) and Warranty Administration, etc.

Lead or participate as member of a team in special teams, special fleet campaigns, regional calls, regional activities, customer visits, routine scheduled customer calls, CAB, clinics, and other