Program Manager Maintenance Safety

Working at Breeze Airways is an exciting endeavor and a serious commitment to bring “The World’s Nicest Airline” to life. We work cross-functionally with truly awesome Team Members to deliver on our mission: “To make the world of travel simple, affordable, and convenient. Improving our guests travel experience using technology, ingenuity and kindness.”

Breeze is hiring- join us!

The Program Manager Maintenance Safety is responsible for ensuring appropriate standards are established and maintained to provide the highest level of safety for Breeze Airways Maintenance operations.

The Maintenance Safety Program Manager is a subject matter expert in maintenance safety practices and procedures for Breeze Airways. As an individual contributor, develops, implements, and leads innovative safety programs and processes. This role exercises considerable judgment to make safety related decisions and ensure aircraft maintenance is performed at the highest level of safety, in accordance with Breeze Airways policies and procedures, and aircraft manufacturer policies and procedures. 

This position requires the applicant to reside within 50 miles of one of the Breeze Maintenance Locations: 

Charleston, SC
Hartford, CT
New Orleans, LA
Norfolk, VA
Orlando, FL
Providence, RI
Tampa, FL

Here’s what you’ll do

• Manages investigation programs for incident or events involving Breeze Airways personnel or aircraft.
  • Evaluates, reviews, and makes recommendations resulting from incident/accident investigations and trend analysis of safety information.
• Partners and supports the Maintenance division with ensuring a robust closed-loop process for employee safety reporting
• Partner with Maintenance division leaders to ensure robust analysis of safety performance risk and ensure effective visibility to mitigation efforts.
• Leads the Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) process for Breeze Airways maintenance and cross-divisional workgroups.
• Responsible for tracking and trending all maintenance related OSHA events and reports and providing mitigation strategies.
• Manages Regionalized Safety Programs/Committees for maintenance operations.
• Reviews and analyzes maintenance delays, cancellations, and Continuing Analysis and Surveillance (CAS) data, to identify adverse trends and make recommendations.
• Represents the safety division at the Maintenance Continuing Analysis and Surveillance (CAS) meeting with safety trends and performance updates
• Performs Hangar and Maintenance Line Safety Audits, as assigned, and reports findings and recommendations to the Manager Operational Safety and Maintenance leadership.
• Manages the Maintenance Safety Promotion and Communication program, to include safety bulletins, safety newsletters, front-line awareness of occurrences, events, and trends.
• Assist the Safety Department in the readiness of the Breeze Airways Emergency Response Program.
• Participates in/facilitates/represents the safety division at:
  • Safety Review Board (SRB) meeting
  • Aircraft Ground Damage Review Board (AGDRB) Meetings
  • Weekly Safety Review (WSR) meeting
  • Employee Injury Review Board (EIRB) meeting
  • Other Breeze Airways safety and maintenance operations meetings
• Maintain proficiency in accident and incident investigative techniques, photographic documentation and technical skills, human factors continuing education, safety research, and investigation analysis.
• Perform all other duties/projects as assigned.

Here’s what you need to be successful

Minimum Qualifications

• 4 years of airline maintenance experience with large commercial or military aircraft.
• A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Mechanic Certificate with Airframe and Powerplant ratings.
• Bachelor’s degree or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• Demonstrated understanding of Breeze Airways safety standards and safe operation practices, or equivalent safety experience within the airline or transportation industry (14 CFR 1, the certificate holder’s operation specifications, and the manuals required by 121.133).
• Demonstrated experience with Safety Management System (SMS) concepts, including facilitation of Safety Risk Management (SRM) processes and risk assessments.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct investigations including interviewing, fact finding, and root cause analysis.
• Effective communication skills (e.g., verbal, written, and listening).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Detailed oriented and highly organized, with ability to multi-task and work independently with limited guidanc