Associate, Special Projects

COMPANY: Pacific Air Industries / Air-Cert, LLC (a holding of Permanent Equity)

POSITION: Account Manager (Air-Cert, LLC)

LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA

HIRING MANAGER: Jason Harp, CEO

DESCRIPTION

The Company

Founded in 1959, Pacific Air Industries & Air-Cert, LLC are the aerospace industry’s trusted partners for buying, repairing and selling surplus airplane parts. We help airlines and other air-carriers keep their planes in the air. At Pacific Air, we do this by providing competitive pricing on our extensive inventory and shipping their orders the same day. At Air-Cert, we have a wide range of capabilities that we can perform on tight lead times.

Today, we are supported by a group of long-term investors that recently invested, looking to build on our legacy. We service a global client base including commercial airlines, other air-carriers and MRO facilities leveraging our inventory with 300k+ parts near LAX, the third busiest airport in the world. In addition to supplying parts, we partner with our customers to service and repair parts to make sure they can keep their fleets flying. The combination of these two offerings gives us a strategic advantage in servicing our > 1,000 customers.

The Opportunity

As we continue building upon our excellent 60 year reputation in the aerospace community, we need to build management tools and processes to support our growth into the next horizon, across all departments. With the support of the CEO, you will be asked to develop & prioritize key improvement projects with department leads as your business partners. Then, you will tackle those projects in order of priority. Projects will vary, but today they may range from standing up an FP&A capability to evaluating the viability of a 3PL solution or helping build management tools inside of a recently implemented ERP in our repair shop. On each project, you will need to apply structured problem solving, empathetic solution design and patient implementation. Also, through it all, you will be supported by our full team.

After 18-36 months of successful project completions & hand-offs, we will work with you to find a longer term, meaningful role that align your interests with our business needs, including possible opportunities to own a P&L. Additionally, a successful applicant will learn the inner-workings of our private equity owned, small business, while getting in depth exposure to the MRO market for the aerospace & defense industry.

Experience

An ideal candidate will have:

  • Demonstrated past success in quickly learning, and excelling in a new context as well as working on projects in a cross-functional setting with multiple stakeholders

  • Affinity for structured problem solving (think “Case Interviews”)

  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

  • Passion for aerospace and/or small businesses

  • Strong past performance in both academic and workplace settings

  • Strong computer skills (MS Office), with data analytics and significant Excel experience a strong plus

  • Proficient in MS Office including Word, Excel, Outlook , PowerPoint

  • Experience in aerospace, especially MRO, a strong plus