Senior Manager - Maintenance Control

Working at Frontier Airlines

At Frontier, our mission is to Make Every Flight Count. That mission guides how we support our customers, our people and the operation every day.

As a Frontier employee, your work connects to more than a single role. Whether you’re supporting flights, helping customers, maintaining aircraft, leading teams or working behind the scenes, you help create a travel experience that is safe, reliable and built around value.

Our work is guided by our core values: customer first, safety always, operational excellence and one team. These values shape how we make decisions, support each other and deliver for the people who count on us.

Support for work, life and travel

Frontier offers benefits, programs and travel privileges designed to support eligible employees at work and beyond. Availability may vary by role, employment status, eligibility, location, schedule, applicable policies and current plan details.

Depending on role and eligibility, available benefits and programs may include:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement savings options
• Paid holidays, vacation time and sick time
• Travel privileges on Frontier Airlines and participating partner airlines, based on current program rules and availability
• Buddy passes, based on eligibility and program rules
• Travel-related discounts and employee discounts on select products, services and vendors
• A hybrid schedule for eligible headquarters roles based in Denver, Colorado
• Business casual dress options for eligible corporate and support roles
• Employee support programs and resources, including the HOPE League, Frontier Airlines’ nonprofit organization

About Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines is a Denver-based airline serving destinations across the United States and select international markets. Our people support every part of the travel journey, from airport operations and flight crews to aircraft maintenance, customer support, corporate teams and more.

We’re focused on delivering meaningful value by making travel more accessible, practical and easy to personalize for our customers. Across the airline, our teams help support a safe, reliable and efficient operation while continuing to strengthen the experience for the people who choose Frontier.

What Will You Be Doing?

Senior Manager of Maintenance Control has overall responsibility including staffing and budgeting requirements for the department. Serves as the senior level authority when making system operation decisions. Provides communication and coordination with Flight Dispatch, System Operations Control, Station Operations, Line and Heavy Maintenance, Inspection, Engineering, and Purchasing to ensure continued safety.

Essential Functions

• Manage, monitor and coordinate SMS activities as directed. These duties include but are not limited to:
• Coordinate the development, implementation, maintenance, and integration of the SMS throughout Frontier.
• Identify hazards and safety risk assessments including change management.
• Ensure effectiveness of safety risk control.
• Promote safety and maintain a high degree of integrity by demonstrating responsibility for situational response using workplace norms.
• Advise the accountable executive on the performance of the SMS and on any need for improvement.
• Accountable for achieving safety performance relative to job tasks and maintaining a continuous high degree of engagement during and after normal work hours.
• Manage risk acceptable level: blue or lower as defined by Frontier’s company risk matrix.
• Manage the daily activities of MCC, ensuring continual safe aircraft for scheduled service. This includes ensuring a seamless transition of all personnel and shifts and continuous briefing of daily fleet-wide mechanical status to the Director, Maintenance Control, and senior management members.
• Develop the knowledge, skills, capabilities, capacities, proficiencies, and workflows best practices of self and assigned personnel to drive business results.
• Develop and aggregate broad knowledge of all airline operational teams.
• Participate in strategic planning and lead the implementation of long-term objectives.
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to Line Maintenance (including Contract Maintenance), RON Maintenance, and Heavy Check Maintenance personnel and detail required maintenance actions to repair aircraft discrepancies.
• Develop and maintain deep understandings and awareness of how this role, the Controller role, and the department affect the customer experience with subordinate staff.
• Continually design and implement plans to reduce delays and cancellations, take appropriate risks within the blue and green category, and innovate change in the face of opportunity to the status quo.
• Create and administer work schedules, performance objectives/goals, and training for MCC personnel and Technical Services personnel. Monitor and create pay recap sheets to include vacation and sick time.
• Single source contact for the Director, Maintenance Control and senior management.
• Efficiently manage all required audits and internal self-audits are completed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Efficiently identify root causes and implement mitigating actions for any inspection findings or CARs for assigned areas.
• Ensure the quality of the operational MEL/CDL/NEF Program processes.
• Efficiently manage the auditing process of all completed work packages, ensuring the consistently accurate and compliant documentation of all work performed.
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of all assigned work documents and records.
• Participate in CASS, Reliability Board, GMM, and Action Item meetings.
• Must demonstrate strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills including, but not limited to listening, non-verbal, questioning, clarity, conciseness, empathy, and trust building
• Vol.D In departments without supervisors, ensure that personnel within the department including themselves have current training and qualifications to perform assigned tasks.

Authority

• Authority to stop or ground aircraft when deemed necessary
• Makes major financial decisions regarding parts, service, logistics, and contracts as needed.

Qualifications

• FAA-certificated mechanic with Airframe and Powerplant ratings
• Five years of combined heavy and line maintenance and maintenance control experience
• Five years of supervisory/management experience in a maintenance operations environment
• Attainment of four-year college degree (Preferred)
• FCC Radio license (Preferred)
• Must have the ability to plan, organize, and administrate workloads to subordinates
• VDRPMust attend and successfully complete Maintenance Training Required Inspection Item courseVDRP
• Must demonstrate behavior that portrays the company core values of Safety, Respect, Trust, Collaboration, Value, and Passion while communicating with personnel and acting on behalf of the company

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Working knowledge of Airbus aircraft
• Proven leadership & motivational skills
• Excellent knowledge of Maintenance operations
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively with other departments
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to work under stressful situations
• Working knowledge of MS software including Word, Excel & Access
• Ability to collect data, act as expert for technical content & logically organize information for publication
• Must have the ability to plan, organize and administrate workloads to subordinates
• Vol.D Must attend and successfully complete Maintenance Training Required Inspection Item course
• Must demonstrate behavior that portrays the company core values of Safety, Respect, Trust, Collaboration, Value, and Passion while communicating with personnel and acting on behalf of the company

Equipment Operated

Typical office equipment including phone, computer, printer, fax machine & copier

Work Environment

Typical office environment

Physical Effort

Generally, not required.

Positions Supervised

• Manager(s), Mtce Control
• Controllers, Mtce
• Clerk(s), Mtce Ctrl Admin

Salary Range - $135,000 - $163,873

Please note: This posting has a closing date of 12/10/2026 midnight MT

Workplace Policies

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature and level of work required of the referenced position; they are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of individuals in this position. Please be advised that duties and expectations of this position may be subject to change.

Frontier Airlines, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and, as such, is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Frontier Airlines is a Zero Tolerance Drug-Free Workplace. All prospective employees are subject to pre-employment testing for the following drugs and their metabolites: Marijuana, Cocaine, Amphetamines, Opioids and Phencyclidine (PCP). Further, any applicant who is found to have tested positive on any required drug or alcohol test at a former employer will be considered ineligible for employment with Frontier.