Manager, Production - Rise Air - YXE (Full Time)

✈️ Manager, Production

Location: Saskatoon, SK

Type: Full-Time

Are you an experienced Aircraft Maintenance Engineer with strong leadership skills and a passion for safety and operational excellence? We're seeking a Manager, Production to lead, coordinate, and oversee fixed-wing maintenance operations at our Saskatoon base. If you thrive in a hands-on, safety-first environment and enjoy mentoring teams while ensuring regulatory compliance, this role is your next career runway.

Why You'll Love This Role:

• Lead Where It Matters Most: Play a key role in ensuring aircraft safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance across base maintenance operations.
• People-Focused Leadership: Build, mentor, and motivate a skilled maintenance team while shaping a strong safety culture.
• Purpose-Driven Workplace: Be part of a 100 per cent Indigenous-owned organization that values diversity, community, and meaningful work.

️ What You'll Be Doing:

• Complete and supervise the maintenance, repair, modification, overhaul, alteration and inspection of all airframes, systems, and components. 
• Ensure that all maintenance activities are accomplished in accordance with Transport Canada regulations, aircraft manufacturers and company-approved policies and procedures.
• Develop and implement a production strategy and policy and ensure that production strategy is efficient and practical.
• Ensure proper coverage is in place to support flight activities, maintenance events, and nondestructive testing (NDT) needs.
• Support the Stores department to ensure adequate repair parts inventory levels are maintained.
• Enforce safety rules and actively promote safety awareness and compliance across the workplace.
• Provide instructional and technical support to AMEs, apprentices, and crew chiefs to support professional development.
• Coordinate with the Maintenance Planner regarding scheduling, priorities, and progress of assigned work.
• Liaise with Maintenance Operations Control (MOC) regarding aircraft serviceability and availability.
• Ensure timely requisition of parts and materials required for non-routine maintenance.
• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance Manager with respect to quality assurance issues and to determine the application of incoming manufacturer's service material and regulatory authorities' airworthiness directives

You Might Be the Perfect Fit If You Have:

• A strong safety mindset and commitment to regulatory compliance.
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to supervise, coach, and motivate technical teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across departments.
• A proactive, solution-focused approach with strong decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced maintenance environment.

What You'll Need:

• M1 and M2 Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) License.
• Minimum of 10 years relevant aviation maintenance experience and 2-3 years progressive managerial experience in aviation maintenance.
• Thorough knowledge of aircraft systems and Transport Canada regulations.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and maintenance-related software.
• Ability to support, strengthen, and promote safety and quality initiatives.

We're going places – and we want you to join us. Apply today!

Rise Air is committed to employment equity, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome Indigenous people with all levels of education and experience and are dedicated to building a respectful environment for learning, collaboration, and growth. Our programs are influenced by our core values of safety, service, integrity, sustainability, and passion. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. Preference is given to qualified Indigenous applicants. Accommodations are available upon request.

Land & Cultural Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that we are situated on the territories of Indigenous peoples who have occupied these lands for thousands of years, including the First Nations of Treaties 6, 8, and 10, as well as other non-Treaty First Nations and Métis. We recognize that we benefit from the lands. We are dedicated to ensuring that the spirit of reconciliation is honoured and respected.