Aircraft Maintenance Scheduler (Aerospace)

Location: Mojave, California, United States. Primarily office-based, with regular coordination in hangar, shop, and flight-line environments. Flexible or off-shift hours and weekends may be required, along with occasional mission travel.

Base salary: $71,000–$86,000 for 2–5 years of relevant experience; $82,000–$101,000 for 5+ years. Eligible for up to a 10% annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable air-launched hypersonic testbeds and provides flight data to validate advanced aerospace systems and accelerate technology deployment.

What you will do

• Maintain rolling one-to-six-month schedules covering aircraft maintenance, modifications, ground operations, testing, flight activities, and program milestones.
• Translate operational priorities into sequenced, resource-loaded work with durations, dependencies, readiness dates, and critical paths.
• Coordinate personnel capacity, qualifications, shifts, leave, training, inspection coverage, and competing program demands.
• Forecast calendar-, flight-hour-, and cycle-driven maintenance and coordinate parts, tooling, facilities, vendors, and test resources.
• Lead planning reviews, resolve resource conflicts, assess alternatives, and escalate readiness risks with owners and recovery actions.
• Deliver 30-day planning packages to Maintenance Control and maintain schedule versions, change records, execution feedback, and handoff actions.

Requirements

• 3+ years of aircraft maintenance planning, scheduling, production control, or comparable aviation operations experience, including coordinated work packages.
• Ability to build multi-month schedules with logical dependencies, milestones, critical paths, labor estimates, and realistic durations.
• Knowledge of aircraft maintenance processes, inspection intervals, utilization forecasting, maintenance records, and airworthiness requirements.
• Ability to interpret maintenance manuals, task cards, engineering orders, drawings, and configuration records.
• Experience coordinating personnel qualifications and availability, procurement lead times, parts traceability, shortages, and kitting.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project or equivalent scheduling software, and maintenance or enterprise work-management systems.

Nice to have

• FAA Mechanic Certificate with Airframe and Powerplant ratings.
• Hands-on aircraft maintenance or military aviation planning and scheduling experience.
• Experience with large or transport-category aircraft, flight-test or experimental operations, hypersonic programs, or complex aerospace integration.
• Experience with ERP/MRO systems, Jira, schedule risk analysis, maintenance forecasting, or continuous improvement.

Culture & Benefits

• 4/10 work schedule.
• Healthcare coverage including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs.
• Paid maternity and parental leave.
• 50% company match per contributed dollar into a 401(k), up to $11,500.
• Tuition reimbursement and required PPE and site safety support.