What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director Regulatory Compliance position at HAECOAMERICAS?
About HAECO Americas
Headquartered in Greensboro, NC, with facilities in Lake City, FL, HAECO Americas is a global, world-class aviation company providing services ranging from aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul to the manufacturing of aircraft interior products. HAECO Americas is one of the leading aviation corporations in the world. We pride ourselves on safe, high-quality aviation products and services for our customers, as well as security and growth for our most valuable asset -- our people.
Why HAECO Americas
A career with HAECO Americas is your chance to connect with a world leader in aircraft maintenance and interiors. Your career at HAECO will expose you to the best practices of aircraft maintenance on Boeing and Airbus wide-body and narrow-body jets for major airlines and operators. As a HAECO team member, you will learn from the industry’s best, pick up new skills, and continue your professional development. We offer a flexible, high-energy work environment with opportunities to innovate, learn and grow - doing work that matters. The sky is the limit on how far your potential could take you at HAECO Americas.
HAECO Americas offers an array of benefits designed with the health and welfare of our employees in mind.
- Comprehensive Benefit Plans
- Health Savings Account
- Career Progression Program
- Paid Premiums for Certifications/Shifts
- Paid Time Off
- Employee Discounts
- Relocation Assistance (if applicable)
- 401k Savings Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Certification Assistance and Tuition Reimbursements
- Collaborative and Safe Work Environment
Position Overview
Director of Regulatory Compliance (DRC) is directly responsible to the VP, Safety & Quality Compliance for collaboration with the corporate Technical Training Department, assuring compliance with all applicable Federal Aviation Regulations and company contractual obligations. This position is responsible for identifying, developing, compiling and presenting metrics necessary to determine regulatory and quality performance of the HAECO Americas facilities. Additionally, this position will be responsible for the development of certification programs for HAECO Airframe Services.
Essential Duties
- Implement and monitor strategic company and department initiatives as required and directed.
- Provide coaching, counseling, succession planning and guidance to assigned work groups.
- Administer disciplinary action to assigned personnel, as appropriate and required, in accordance with HAECO policies and procedures.
- Develop and implement corrective and preventative actions for deficiencies identified.
- Review and approve all prepared formal responses to regulatory bodies on behalf of the areas assigned.
- Collaborate with the Training Department as required to provide input on regulatory related actions/content.
- Collaborate with the leader of the HAECO Americas Learning Management System (LMS) to ensure training is properly documented and tracked for the HAECO Americas operations.
- Oversee the denial of facility access to those technicians failing to maintain mandatory company training requirements.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with all training related commitments to the FAA and customers.
- Assist the LMS Director in development of certifications, revisions to current certifications, manual development and review.
- Compile monthly KPI data for quality for each location.
- Assist in the review of investigations and resolve any open items related to those investigations.
- Develop presentations of data and metrics for FAA, internal management, monthly management review and employee quarterly meetings.
- Review of internal systems and procedures for improvement.
- Coordinate directly with Repair Station Management to consistently ensure metrics provided support facility GM’s and develop additional metrics as requested after coordination with all affected sites.
- Must remain current on regulatory and quality trends as they relate to repair stations.
- Perform duties of ProSafeT Administrator and provide guidance and training for all company and FAA personnel.
- Develop Group and other mandatory reports.
- Assist VP, Safety & Quality and other senior management as directed
- Conduct regulatory research as directed
- Assist with the development and implementation of SMS across the Americas platform.
Secondary Duties
Perform other duties and special projects as assigned by the VP, Regulatory Compliance.
What you need: (Requirements)
Minimum
- Bachelor’s degree in Aviation, Business Administration or related field.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of aircraft maintenance experience with five (5) years supervisory experience.
- Read, write and understand the English language.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and able to influence the AMR cross functional leadership in continuous improvement projects.
- Must be able to motivate and lead a diverse workforce.
- Domestic and international travel required, involving driving and/or flying (25-50%).
Preferred
Airframe and Powerplant certifications
Physical Requirements
- Must be able to lift 25 pounds, climb stairs, bend, and stoop as necessary.
- Normal or corrected hearing and vision are required.
- Normal office environment where approximately 70% of work is performed in a sitting position.
- Frequent exposure to hangar areas for meetings of varying lengths of time.
This company considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and national origin.
