Maintenance Controller

Take Your Career to New Heights with Flair Airlines

We’re here to make air travel affordable for everyone, and we’re looking for talented individuals who want to help us continue changing the industry for the better. As Canada’s most reliable airline, we're all about offering real value. As we continue to expand our network, increase flight frequencies, and introduce more services, we’re looking for passionate team members to help us in our mission to make air travel accessible for everyone. We know who we are, and we’re confident in our approach—but we don’t take ourselves too seriously.

Your Team

Join the Maintenance team, where safety, efficiency, and compliance are central to every operation. The Maintenance Controller is an experienced, licensed AME – M2 who oversees all line maintenance work, ensuring it is conducted safely, efficiently, and in compliance with industry standards. This role provides direction for aircraft maintenance concerns and coordinates with various departments to support aircraft schedule requirements.

At Flair Airlines, we offer a highly competitive starting wage of $64.37 per hour based on experience, reflecting our commitment to recognizing and rewarding industry expertise.

This role is based on-site at our Calgary, AB (YYC) office.

A Day In The Life

• Ensuring the airworthiness of the company’s fleet is maintained, and communicated as the status changes.
• Serving as the central point of contact for operational aircrew, dispatch, and maintenance for technical and logistical assistance.
• Collaborating with line maintenance, Technical Services, Materials, and duty operations control to formulate and evaluate recovery plans during irregular operations.
• Initiating aircraft swaps when necessary to meet maintenance goals and making decisions regarding discrepancies / deferrals.
• Exercising authority and responsibility for supervising and coordinating all line scheduled and unscheduled maintenance.
• Maintain constant surveillance of line station activity. Authorize the use of the Minimum Equipment List (MEL) and other deferrals.
• Produce a daily Fleet status report accessible to key stakeholders.
• Liaise with vendors for overnight maintenance regarding aircraft readiness. Ensure that work has been completed and the logbook has been signed. Verify that all deferred items are in accordance with the time limit authorized by MEL and ensure that all maintenance and operational restrictions are in compliance.
• Meticulously record technical delays and actively participate in the Weekly Technical Delay review, contributing recommendations for preventing similar future events.
• Managing out-of-hours technical requests to Boeing.
• Confirming parts requirements for deferrals and monitoring their status.
• Support the accomplishment of planned maintenance in conjunction with the maintenance planning department.
• Coordinate all maintenance ferry flights in accordance with approved procedures.
• Completing internal company forms, maintenance records, documents, work orders, and entries in the MRO IT tracking system.
• Generating accurate and comprehensive shift turnover reports.
• Identifying safety concerns, issues, incidents, or hazards and reporting them through the company's Safety Management System (SMS) program.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What You Bring To The Role

The preferred candidate should exemplify Flair's core values of respect, honesty, accountability, and efficiency while demonstrating success in previous roles.

Education

Experience

Skills and Abilities

Requirements

Why You’ll Love Working Here

At Flair, we prioritize our teams by cultivating a supportive, collaborative work environment filled with opportunities for growth. Investing in our people is at the heart of what we do because your success fuels our collective achievements. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace where leaders thrive, innovation flourishes, and every team member feels valued and empowered.

Benefits

From the moment you join us , you’ll have access to a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being—because when you’re at your best, so are we. This benefits package includes :

Your Career, Your Journey—Join Flair!

If you’re ready to join a team that’s bold, innovative, and fun, we want to hear from you! If you’re ready to embark on this exciting journey with Flair Airlines, please submit your resume through the job posting and answer a few questions about your experience and suitability for the role. We look forward to reviewing your application.

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When a successful candidate is identified.

At Flair, we’re committed to building an inclusive, equal, and accessible workplace that welcomes diverse talent. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you need accommodation during the selection process, just let us know.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Flair; however, only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.

Website : flyflair.com

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