Operations Manager

Job Title: Operations Manager

Exciting opportunity to work for a local Aerospace company!

Job Description

We are seeking a dynamic and hands-on General Manager to lead a growing aerospace Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) operation. This role offers full operational ownership, requiring an individual who can step into the business, remove bottlenecks, and scale performance in a fast-paced, labor-constrained environment. You will be responsible for P&L performance, team development, regulatory compliance, and strategic growth, while fostering a strong culture centered on safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Own full P&L performance across safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Drive daily operations to meet customer commitments and regulatory requirements.
• Act as a working leader to solve problems, unblock production, and maintain throughput.
• Identify and eliminate production constraints in a high-growth environment.
• Lead and develop a team of approximately 40–60 employees through supervisors.
• Build structure in a less-experienced workforce through training, coaching, hiring, onboarding, cross-training, and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of accountability, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with FAA Part 145, RSM, QCM, and regulatory standards (FAA, EASA).
• Act as the senior leader for audits, CAPA, and repair station operations.
• Drive a strong 'zero harm' safety culture.
• Ensure workforce qualification, certification, and documentation standards are met.
• Support capacity expansion and operational scaling.
• Collaborate with leadership on long-term growth, capital investment, and capability development.
• Serve as a senior customer-facing leader for issue resolution and communication.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across engineering, supply chain, quality, and commercial teams.

Essential Skills

• Operations management
• Management skills
• Production oversight
• P&L management
• Strategic planning
• Safety procedures
• Continuous improvement
• Process improvement
• Corrective and preventive action (CAPA)

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• 3 years of leadership experience in MRO, aerospace, manufacturing, or regulated environments.
• Proven success leading teams through growth, change, and operational constraints.
• Strong player-coach leadership style (comfortable being hands-on when needed).
• Experience developing early-career or inexperienced teams.
• Solid understanding of FAA/regulatory environments and repair station operations.
• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement frameworks.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Aviation, Operations, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• FAA Repairman Certificate (preferred, not required).

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Laconia, NH.

The pay range for this position is $100000.00 - $120000.00/yr.

Growing from 22-30million this year

This is a fully onsite position in Laconia,NH.

This position is anticipated to close on Jun 30, 2026.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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Salary : $100,000 - $120,000