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Responsibilities for this Position
Position Title: Customer Technical Manager
Date: Jul 9, 2026
Location: Savannah, GA, US
Company: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
Customer Technical Manager in GAC Savannah
Unique Skills:
At Gulfstream, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in inspiring and empowering every individual to reach their fullest potential. From workforce development and meaningful connections to a culture of trust, respect, and integrity, we invest in our employees so they can do their best work and achieve success together. Creating and delivering the worlds finest aviation experience starts with our people and when our people thrive, so does our mission.
Familiarity with the Middle East is preferred. This is a Savannah based position.
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- This position will be assigned to special accounts for Saudi Arabia. Gulfstream Aerospace support teams and operators, supporting real-time assistance and operational needs, including participation in off-hour conference calls and occasional international travel.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency across current Gulfstream production aircraft, including strong comprehensive/operational knowledge and experience with at least one of the following: mechanical systems, avionics/electrical systems, and aircraft structures.
- Apply strong working expertise to diagnose, analyze, and resolve technical issues involving aircraft systems and structural components across the Gulfstream fleet. Collaborate with and lead cross functional teams to determine root cause and corrective actions to mitigate failures.
- Demonstrate willingness to learn AHTMS data research tools such as Databricks, SQL, and Power BI for eventbased analysis and fleetwide issue investigation.
- Interpret and utilize aircraft technical documentation with a high level of accuracy, including AMM, IPC, SGERs, GERs, MMEL, AFM, engineering drawings, and other technical publications.
Education and Experience Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Management, Aviation Maintenance, or Engineering Tech required or equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. 10 years of related aircraft maintenance or operations experience. 3 years maintenance or operations experience with specific Gulfstream aircraft model (i.e. GV/G550/G450, GIV, GII/GIII, G100, G200. Supervisory or Management experience required. A&P (FAA Airframe and Powerplant) license preferred.
Position Purpose:
The Customer Technical Manager acts as the primary representative for customer interactions when managing complex support events and aspects related to Gulfstream model aircraft maintenance, operations, and programs affecting customer operations. Recovering relationships between Gulfstream and customer via complex problem resolution. Customer Technical Managers develop and maintain effective controls for budgets, manpower usage, schedules, procedures, and policies to achieve maximum utilization of all resources during support events.
Job Description
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential Functions:
- Under the guidance of VP of Field Services, Director of Technical Support, and Regional Directors, helps to resolve customer support issues.
- Travel to Gulfstream/ AWRF facilities or to remote locations as the project manager to coordinate support for complex support events.
- Coordinate with Gulfstream/ AWRF facilities or to remote locations as the project manager to coordinate support for complex Managed Programs and/or Reliability Enhancement events.
- Tactical oversight of escalated customer issues to include coordination of complex maintenance projects and service center events and the elements used to resolve them, such as, TechOps, engineering, part sales, FAST, and SC resources.
- Identify, develop, and implement programs that help prevent future aircraft downtime that will meet Customer Support business priorities.
- Responsible for resolving customer issues as related to Gulfstream fleet aircraft maintenance, operations, and programs.
- Provides coordination and communication with the following Customer Support and Production areas: TechOps, FlightOps, Maintainability, Material Services (Spares & GSE), Publications, RSM, Service Center, Reliability, Technical Training (Gulfstream, Customer & FSI) and Warranty Administration, etc.
- Lead or participate as member of a team in special teams, special fleet campaigns, regional calls, regional activities, customer visits, routine scheduled customer calls, CAB, clinics, and other customer centric forums.
- Acts as a Regional Customer Support Manager responsible for resolving customer issues as related to Gulfstream fleet aircraft maintenance, operations, and programs.
- Administering Customer Sat and/or advocating warranty coverage for escalated customer events.
- Provide written & verbal responses to all levels of customer organization, as well as, written & verbal updates to Gulfstream organization.
- Provide remote Technical Operations support to when not supporting complex AOG events.
- Responsible for authoring, maintaining, and editing Customer Technical Manager Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) to reflect Job responsibilities, accuracy, and improvements based on lessons learned.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Other Requirements:
- Must have thorough knowledge of aircraft systems, troubleshooting, technical manuals systems, and aircraft maintenance records system.
- Experience in project management and team performance.
- Understanding of PC and Mainframe computer applications including the use of standard computer word processing programs (i.e. Microsoft Office) and appropriate typing skills a plus.
This job requires one to be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
Additional Information
Requisition Number: 234633
Category: Service Center
Percentage of Travel: Up to 25%
Shift: First
Employment Type: Full-time
Posting End Date: 07/23/2026
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
Gulfstream does not provide work visa sponsorship for this position, unless the applicant is a currently sponsored Gulfstream employee.
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