Test Maintenance Lead: Flight Test Readiness

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a Test Maintenance Program Manager to own end-to-end program delivery that keeps test aircraft and test sites mission-ready across the Zipline test footprint.

You will translate day-to-day maintenance demands into programs that remove blockers, tighten configuration control, and turn site learnings into repeatable processes and tooling to improve fleet availability and reduce safety/regulatory risk.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in program management or a closely related technical operations role.
• Direct experience with aircraft maintenance or aviation test operations is preferred.
• Proven ability to own outcomes with measurable impact on readiness.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management and change control.
• Experience building dashboards and operational metrics.

Responsibilities

• Own program-level delivery for test maintenance across multiple sites and test campaigns.
• Translate maintenance needs into program plans including tooling, parts, and documentation.
• Act as the primary link between Maintenance Ops Engineering, Flight Test, Engineering, Product, and site operations.
• Maintain configuration and modification tracking for all active test aircraft.
• Track and report readiness metrics and SLAs on campaign cadences.
• Lead Test Maintenance Program Updates for leadership and site teams.
• Design dashboards, checklists, and workflows to speed maintenance execution.
• Convert site lessons into standard work, tooling, and training inputs.
• Lead or coordinate maintenance validation campaigns and scale decisions.

Skills

Program management

Maintenance operations

Test operations

Configuration management

Dashboards

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Spreadsheets

Job description

Zipline is seeking a Test Maintenance Program Manager to own end-to-end program delivery that keeps test aircraft and test sites mission-ready across the Zipline test footprint.

You will translate day-to-day maintenance demands into programs that remove blockers, tighten configuration control, and turn site learnings into repeatable processes and tooling to improve fleet availability and reduce safety/regulatory risk.