AMES MGR PROD CONTROL

Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services•Wilmington, OH

About The Position

The Manager, Heavy Maintenance Production Control & Program Execution leads the systems, people, controls, and operating rhythm needed to deliver heavy-maintenance aircraft safely, on time, and within approved labor and financial plans. The manager owns the Production Control system for tracking milestone health, work-card and non-routine flow, contract-code accuracy, labor and financial reporting, and cross-functional constraints. The role provides Project Managers with reliable information for daily execution and recovery, and builds a feedback loop with Planning to improve future project plans, labor assumptions, task sequencing, and milestone standards. The manager leads structured recovery planning for threatened aircraft or major milestones, coordinates cross-functional resources to remove constraints, and maintains a transparent recovery plan. The role also leads and develops the Production Control team, establishes standard work and staffing expectations, supports customer reviews, and turns lessons learned into process improvements. It owns the milestone-control system and data discipline that provide a credible operating view of aircraft status, and assists Project Managers with contract codes, labor and cost reporting, budget visibility, variance analysis, and financial opportunities or leakage.

Responsibilities

Lead structured recovery planning when aircraft or major milestones are threatened.
Coordinate Operations, Planning, Materials, Engineering, Quality, Shops, Tooling, and customer-facing resources to remove constraints.
Maintain a single recovery plan with actions, owners, due dates, and expected schedule impact.
Ensure schedule changes and revised delivery commitments are supported by transparent operating data.
Lead, coach, and develop the Production Control team.
Establish standard work for shift turnover, aircraft walks, card staging, project-plan updates, progress reporting, and escalation.
Define staffing, coverage, skill expectations, and development needs for the function.
Build a culture of urgency, accountability, accuracy, and constructive challenge.
Partner with Heavy Maintenance Project Managers and line leadership while preserving clear accountability for production flow.
Support customer reviews with credible status, risks, recovery actions, and delivery outlook.
Capture post-check lessons and translate recurring causes of delay into process improvements.
Own the milestone-control system and data discipline that provide one credible operating view of aircraft status.
Assist Project Managers with contract-code setup and usage, labor and cost reporting, budget visibility, variance analysis, and identification of financial opportunities or leakage.