Senior Aircraft Lead

Title: Senior Aircraft Lead

Reports to: Director of Maintenance

Company Overview 

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.

Aerospace Engineering Group (AERO) provides an integrated, end-to-end capability for the rapid modification and fielding of mission-specific aircraft. The Airborne Asset Adaptation (A3) Cell acts as the central command and coordination hub, managing requirements and external interfaces from inception to operational delivery. Specialized technical execution is delivered by the Aircraft Integration Centre (AIC), a Part 145 facility focused on airframe modification, and Aerospace Design (ASD), which provides organic design engineering and FAA-authorized certification. Collectively, these elements bridge the gap between initial requirements and the deployment of flight-certified, mission-ready assets.

Position Summary 

In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating day-to-day production operations on the hangar floor in a high op-tempo aircraft modification environment. The Senior AMT Lead implements and coordinates aircraft modification projects, manpower assignments, oversees work execution, and ensures that all maintenance activities align with repair station policies, procedures, and customer requirements. Working directly for the Director of Maintenance, you will assist in managing project schedules, respond to AOG situations, coordinate vendor resources, and help define detailed work scopes for complex modifications and special inspections. This role will require you to coordinate between technicians, engineering, and logistics in order to drive operational efficiency improvements and ensure seamless coordination across multiple concurrent ISR integration programs. This role requires hands-on technical leadership combined with strong organizational skills to drive production efficiency, quality, and on time delivery of mission ready aircraft.

What You’ll Do

• Plan and implement maintenance workflows.
• Contribute to work scope definition and execution planning by evaluating statements of work, determining personnel and tooling needs, and estimating labor hours for modification and maintenance tasks.
• Manage day-to-day activities on the hangar floor.
• Oversee parts ordering and status tracking as it relates to aircraft delivery timelines. 
• Coordinate outside vendor services such as NDI, paint, heat treat and other special processes.
• Monitor and optimize hangar floor operations to maximize throughput while maintaining quality standards.
• Support business development by providing technical expertise, labor estimates, and workload capacity assessments for new projects and aircraft.
• Perform other duties, responsibilities, and projects assigned by management.

What You’ll bring 

Required

• Minimum 8 years of aircraft maintenance experience.
• Minimum 4 years of supervisory experience within an FAA Part 145 Repair Station environment. 
• Working knowledge of 14 CFR Part 43 and return to service requirements. 
• Demonstrated experience with standard enterprise IT utilities.
• Familiarity with ISO9001, AS9100, and process improvement systems.
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Preferred

• Working knowledge of 14 CFR Part 21 and adjacent processes, including design, fabrication, prototyping, and conformity processes. 
• Prior experience in aircraft modification, military integration programs, or special mission aircraft.
• Experience with production scheduling, critical path management, and AOG response coordination.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, wiring diagrams, and technical specifications.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications 

• Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) certificate

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