Director of Aviation Maintenance Operations, East

Zipline; Atlanta (GA); Presencial; USD 190.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Zipline is seeking a Director of Maintenance Operations for the East Region. You will own end-to-end maintenance performance across regional hubs, set standards, and scale a maintenance operating model across multiple sites and regulatory contexts.

You will lead site heads of maintenance, enforce systems, and drive reliability while ensuring safety and audit readiness in a fast-moving logistics environment. This is a senior leadership role with broad impact.

Formación

• 10+ years leading maintenance or technical operations in aerospace, aviation, robotics, or other high-reliability hardware environments.
• Proven experience owning outcomes across multiple sites or regions, not just a single operation.
• Strong systems thinker who can balance standardization with local execution realities.
• Demonstrated ability to build leaders, not just teams, and hold them accountable to measurable results.

Responsabilidades

• Own Regional Maintenance Performance across the East Region, including fleet uptime, staffing, and budget.
• Lead and develop site-level maintenance leaders at multiple hubs and sites.
• Design and enforce regional maintenance systems, preventive and corrective programs, and documentation.
• Drive reliability at scale with data-informed prioritization and upgrade plans.
• Ensure safety and regulatory excellence with audit-ready compliance across states.
• Partner cross-functionally with Flight Ops, Engineering, and Supply Chain to resolve systemic issues.

Conocimientos

Regional maintenance leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Maintenance systems design

Reliability engineering

Safety/regulatory compliance

People development

Data-driven decision making

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Herramientas

CMMS (Maintenance software)

Data analysis tools (Excel/SQL)

Descripción del empleo

About Zipline

Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.

Our customers include the world's largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.

About You and The Role

As Director of Maintenance Operations for the East Region, you will own end-to-end maintenance performance across Zipline's Regional operations. This is a senior execution role responsible for regional fleet readiness, maintenance systems, staffing, and compliance across multiple distribution hubs and launch sites.

You are not running a single shop. You are building, scaling, and enforcing a maintenance operating model across states, sites, and regulatory contexts. You will set standards, hold leaders accountable, and personally intervene where reliability, safety, or capacity are at risk. Your success is measured in sustained fleet uptime, audit-ready systems, and the ability to scale without surprises.

This role sits at the center of Zipline's next phase of operational maturity in the US.

What You'll Do

• Own Regional Maintenance Performance. You are accountable for maintenance outcomes across your region, including organizational financial performance, fleet asset allocations, system uptime and capacity, deferred maintenance risk, parts availability, and recovery from incidents or systemic issues.
• Lead and Develop Site-Level Leaders. Build, manage, and coach Heads of Maintenance or equivalent leads at each site. Set clear expectations, review performance rigorously, promote ownership and drive accountability, and upgrade talent when needed.
• Design and Enforce Maintenance Systems. Own regional maintenance systems including preventive and corrective maintenance programs, tooling standards, documentation, training programs, scheduling, and escalation paths. Ensure consistency without slowing local execution.
• Drive Reliability at Scale. Anticipate failure modes before they impact operations. Use data, trend analysis, and field insight to prioritize fixes, allocate resources, and prevent repeat issues across sites. Create and execute fleet upgrade and retrofit plans while balancing uptime and resource utilization.
• Ensure Safety and Regulatory Excellence. Maintain audit-ready compliance across all states and regulatory environments. Own traceability, record quality, and adherence to internal and external requirements. Step in personally for audits, findings, or serious incidents.
• Partner Cross-Functionally at the Regional Level. Work closely with Flight Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Business Operations to resolve systemic issues, influence design and policy, and align capacity to demand.
• Support Launches and Expansion. Lead maintenance readiness for new site launches and expansions in the region, including staffing models, tooling, spares strategy, and early-life reliability.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years leading maintenance or technical operations in aerospace, aviation, robotics, or other high-reliability hardware environments.
• Proven experience owning outcomes across multiple sites or regions, not just a single operation.
• Strong systems thinker who can balance standardization with local execution realities.
• Demonstrated ability to build leaders, not just teams, and hold them accountable to measurable results.
• Comfortable operating in high-tempo, ambiguous environments where judgment matters more than process purity.
• Technical background in mechanical, electrical, or aerospace systems strongly preferred. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.

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