Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas-including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.
Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability-designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field-what we call connecting design with effect.
Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
This role sits within a core area of Metrea.
Air Mobility Group (AIRMOB) is responsible for developing and delivering Metrea's aerial refueling (AAR) capabilities, ensuring the readiness and operational effectiveness of the tanker fleet. AIRMOB oversees fleet management, maintenance, and airworthiness, working to sustain and enhance refueling operations. It manages the integration of new processes and technologies, ensuring that tanker aircraft remain mission-ready through effective logistics, maintenance oversight, and regulatory compliance. By coordinating across various teams, AIRMOB ensures the fleet meets both current and future operational needs, supporting a range of specialized air mobility missions.
Position Summary
In this role, you will own the obsolescence and diminishing manufacturing sources problem for AIRMOB's KC-135R and C-135FR fleet, aircraft that have decades of service still ahead of them despite being out of original production. You will identify component and repair-source risks before they ground a tail, build the mitigation pathway, whether that is alternate sourcing, PMA evaluation, owner-produced parts, repair development, or engineered substitution, and coordinate the cross-functional execution that keeps our aerial refuelling capability sustainable. You will be successful if our maintainers and crews never lose a mission to a part they should have known was going away.
What You'll Do
What You'll bring
Must Haves
Nice to Haves
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value, Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes-Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
Benefits
Comprehensive medical plan options
HSA/FSA accounts
Dental and vision coverage
6% employer 401(k) match
Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
Generous PTO
Life and disability insurance
Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
AD&D Coverage
Pet Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Eligible clearance required: This position requires eligibility to obtain a clearance. U.S. citizenship is required. Candidates will be subject to a background investigation in accordance with federal requirements.
Position may require passing a government-administered background check.
Role may require adherence to export control regulations (ITAR/EAR).
Employment is contingent on meeting all clearance and adjudication requirements.
AAP/EEO Statement
This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require.
Work Location
Temecula and Moreno Valley, CA
Work Environment
This role operates in a mixed office and hangar/shop environment. Periodic time on the maintenance floor and around aircraft is expected. Use of personal protective equipment is required when working on or adjacent to active maintenance areas.
Travel
Up to 25% domestic and international travel for OEM engagements, audits at vendor and repair facilities, and operational support of the deployed fleet. Active U.S. passport required. Travel may include visits to MRO partners in Europe and North America and to forward operating locations supporting the AIRMOB tanker fleet.