Flyzipline

Manager, Maintenance Operations

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago

Supply ChainLogisticsRoboticsLeadershipProblem Solving

About the role

About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service.
Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Provide dotted-line leadership to Maintenance Leads, Associate Leads, and site maintenance teams to align priorities, execution quality, and accountability.
Lead improvement initiatives from problem diagnosis through implementation, validating that changes improve maintenance flow, repair quality, or operational readiness.
Maintain safety, procedural adherence, record accuracy, quality, and audit readiness while ensuring maintenance standards are understood and consistently followed.
Support launch readiness, site expansions, fleet upgrades, retrofits, and other regional maintenance programs as needed.
Ability to influence cross-functional partners and site teams without direct reporting authority, communicate priorities clearly, and escalate risks early.
Ability to apply leadership skills to drive high accountability and ownership while developing junior leaders.
Willingness to travel across the assigned Texas territory and periodically support other regional operations as business needs require.
We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably.

7+ years of experience in service operations, fleet operations, technical operations, aerospace, robotics, manufacturing maintenance, or another high-reliability hardware environment.
If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

Demonstrated ability to manage KPIs, diagnose performance gaps, and drive measurable improvements in uptime, throughput, repair turnaround, or backlog health.
With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere.

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