Aircraft Vendor Maintenance Representative

Aquent; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent seeks an experienced Aircraft Vendor Maintenance Representative to provide on-site technical oversight for Boeing 737 heavy maintenance at third-party facilities in Oklahoma City, OK. The role requires coordination between internal maintenance and external vendors to ensure work meets safety, quality, and schedule standards.

The ideal candidate holds an active FAA A&P license, has 6+ years of heavy aircraft maintenance experience, and extensive Boeing 737 exposure, with hands-on oversight

Qualifications

• Active FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) License required.
• 6+ years of heavy aircraft maintenance experience required.
• Significant Boeing 737 heavy maintenance experience required.
• Experience supporting heavy maintenance events and major checks.
• Ability to work 100% on-site in Oklahoma City, OK.

Responsibilities

• Serve as on-site technical liaison between organization and MRO vendors.
• Monitor Boeing 737 maintenance work to ensure quality and compliance.
• Oversee major maintenance events, including discrepancies and scope changes.
• Coordinate corrective actions with maintenance, engineering, quality and vendors.
• Authorize changes to work scopes as conditions evolve.
• Track progress and identify issues impacting safety, quality, cost, or schedule.
• Maintain records of discrepancies, findings and corrective actions.
• Provide technical information to vendors in a timely manner.
• Support root-cause analysis of significant discrepancies.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, safety, quality and SMS requirements.

Skills

Boeing 737 experience

Heavy aircraft maintenance experience

On-site coordination

Vendor liaison

Documentation and record-keeping

Strong communication

Education

Active FAA A&P License

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Aircraft Vendor Maintenance Representative to provide on-site technical oversight and coordination for aircraft undergoing maintenance at third-party repair facilities. This individual will serve as a key liaison between internal maintenance and engineering teams and external maintenance vendors, ensuring work is completed safely, accurately, on schedule, and in accordance with established maintenance requirements.

This is a fully on-site role based in Oklahoma City, OK and requires significant Boeing 737 heavy maintenance experience along with an active FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) License.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the on-site technical liaison between the organization and assigned maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) vendors.
• Monitor Boeing 737 heavy maintenance work in progress to ensure workmanship, quality, and compliance with approved work scopes and applicable specifications.
• Oversee major maintenance events, including technical findings, non-routine discrepancies, repairs, and changes to the planned work scope.
• Review aircraft discrepancies and coordinate appropriate corrective actions with maintenance, engineering, quality, and vendor teams.
• Authorize or coordinate changes to maintenance work scopes as conditions evolve during maintenance events.
• Track maintenance progress and proactively identify issues that could impact safety, quality, cost, or aircraft delivery schedules.
• Maintain detailed and accurate records of discrepancies, findings, corrective actions, and other maintenance activity.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure required technical information and dispositions are provided to maintenance vendors in a timely manner.
• Perform or support root-cause analysis of significant aircraft discrepancies identified before or during maintenance.
• Maintain working knowledge of applicable vendor maintenance agreements and ensure work is performed according to established requirements.
• Review vendor invoices, supplemental charges, warranty claims, and billing discrepancies as needed.
• Recommend improvements to maintenance programs, work specifications, repair procedures, and preventative actions based on findings during heavy maintenance.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with applicable regulatory, safety, quality, and Safety Management System (SMS) requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Active FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) License required.
• 6+ years of heavy aircraft maintenance experience required.
• Significant hands-on and/or technical oversight experience with Boeing 737 aircraft required.
• Demonstrated experience supporting heavy maintenance events, major maintenance checks, aircraft overhaul, major repairs, or modification programs.
• Strong understanding of aircraft maintenance procedures, inspections, discrepancies, non-routine findings, and corrective actions.
• Experience working with technical maintenance documentation, work packages, work scopes, maintenance manuals, specifications, and/or engineering instructions.
• Ability to assess maintenance issues and understand their potential impact on airworthiness, safety, quality, cost, and schedule.
• Strong communication and documentation skills with the ability to coordinate effectively across maintenance, engineering, quality, materials, and vendor teams.
• Ability to work 100% on-site in Oklahoma City, OK.
• Important: Candidates whose experience is primarily line/light maintenance without substantial heavy maintenance experience will not meet the requirements for this role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience as an Aircraft Maintenance Representative, Heavy Maintenance Representative, Technical Representative, MRO Representative, or Vendor Maintenance Representative.
• Experience representing an airline or aircraft operator at an external MRO or repair facility.
• Experience supporting Boeing 737 heavy checks/C-checks or comparable major maintenance visits.
• Knowledge of FAA Part 121 airline operations and/or Part 145 repair station environments.
• Experience with vendor maintenance contracts, invoice review, warranty claims, supplemental work, and cost management.
• Familiarity with Safety Management Systems (SMS).
• Experience coordinating with aircraft engineering teams and/or OEM technical representatives.

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