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PDS Tech Inc Lead Mechanic- Airframe in Kansas City, Missouri
Elevate your career as a Lead Mechanic in Kansas City, MO, where you'll lead a dynamic team in maintaining and overhauling aircraft, earning up to $44.50 per hour.
Job Title: Lead Mechanic - Airframe
Job Type: Full time; Direct hire
Location: Kansas City, MO 64153
Pay Rate: $30.00-$44.50 per hour
OB SUMMARY: The Lead Mechanic oversees the maintenance tasks in the service, repair, and overhaul of aircraft to ensure airworthiness. Ensures timely completion of tasks and provides training and mentorship for an assigned function area. Assists with Maintenance Supervisor responsibilities for short periods of time.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ensures all tasks are promptly completed in compliance with federal regulations, customer guidelines, and company policies.
Reviews required customer and FAA paperwork to ensure proper maintenance updates and compliance with applicable regulations and customer requirements.
Leads the maintenance, preventative maintenance, or alteration of, or approves and returns to service, any aircraft, or part thereof, only for which that Lead is rated and has satisfactorily performed the work concerned at an earlier date.
Performs maintenance tasks as required and becomes an active member of the crew.
Conducts crew meetings to ensure communication regarding work, safety, and quality.
Uses technical data to order parts and ensure material is effective for aircraft being installed on.
Ensures all parts for specialty area are ordered in a timely manner.
Ensures Engineering is submitted in a timely manner as needed.
Responsible for keeping all assigned areas clean and audit ready. Identifies and eliminates hazards that pose a risk to employee safety and quality of work. Ensures compliance with safety requirements.
Responsible for on-time delivery in assigned skill set in coordination with other skill sets.
Monitors and corrects routine and non-routine labor hours prior to exceeding allotted estimated hours.
Notifies Supervisor of variations in labor requirements to ensure the most efficient utilization of labor and resources and to avoid LOW when possible.
Answers questions from customers as needed.
Responsible for setting timeframe expectations with technicians on task card accomplishment.
Oversees On-the-Job Training (OJT) to provide learning opportunities through work assignment and mentoring.
Recommends changes to processes to improve efficiencies and workflow.
Complies with, communicates, and provides guidance to team members on policies, procedures, and Safety Management System (SMS) requirements. Promotes "Balanced Technician" concept.
Mentors and develops the technical and leadership skills of the mechanics.
Communicates with Supervisor all information on assigned employees including disciplinary problems. May deliver or give input with performance evaluations on assigned employees.
Provides regular feedback and performance coaching including appropriate management of time, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring proper knowledge and training to accomplish assignments to all members of the assigned crew.
Responsible for accurate timekeeping including clocking into jobs.
Responsible for accuracy of clocking into jobs for the assigned team.
Responsible for adhering to all required training.
Regular and predictable attendance.
Effective and appropriate conduct with co-workers.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Performs Delegated Inspector duties as assigned.
Duties listed below are integrated into all job functions:
Acts maturely and responsibly, conducting themselves in a professional, courteous, and respectful manner toward co-workers, contractors, customers, and vendors.
Responds openly and appropriately to feedback regarding performance from leadership.
Completes routine tasks independently.
Performs all duties in a manner which promotes and supports the core values.
Integrates practices and tools to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction.
Completes all required learning assignments in the Learning Management System (LMS).
Attends training to meet requirements of the job position and as needed or mandated by state and/or federal regulations.
Has regular and predictable attendance.
Pay Details: $30.00 to $44.50 per hour
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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