Aircraft Mechanics
Job Description
At Kenmore Air, we're more than just an airline—we’re a Pacific Northwest icon, connecting breathtaking destinations through our fleet of seaplanes and wheeled aircraft. With over 79 years of history, we offer regional scheduled flights, private charters, and scenic tours that showcase the region’s beauty from the sky. Our state-of-the-art maintenance facilities are the heartbeat of our operation, keeping our planes in top condition and ensuring safety and excellence. If you're an aircraft mechanic looking to join a dynamic team of industry veterans, Kenmore Air is where passion for aviation takes flight!
Our maintenance shop in Everett, WA includes a team of six who together manage a fleet of five Cessna Caravans and two PC-12 aircraft while maintaining an equal number of privately owned aircraft. Our aircraft mechanics work with self-sufficiency, while still operating within a team to achieve focused larger company goals.
Job Functions and Responsibilities:
- Performs preventative maintenance including changing oil, tune-ups, checking fluid levels etc.
- Identifies and troubleshoots mechanical issues by using computerized diagnostic equipment and repairs as required
- Follows checklists to ensure that all parts are thoroughly examined
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years aircraft maintenance experience required
- A&P license required
- PC-12 experience a plus
- Cessna 208 experience
- Great attitude and willingness to learn
As a leading employer in our industry in the Pacific Northwest, Kenmore Air is proud to offer a competitive benefits program designed to support our employees and their families. Benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage, Paid Time Off (PTO), 401(k) with company match immediately vested upon eligibility and flight benefits! To learn more about Kenmore Air, please visit www.kenmoreair.com
Note: Candidates are required to pass a criminal background check and pre-employment drug test.
Kenmore Air is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Kenmore Air: 1996–Today
If Kenmore Air’s business took off from 1971 to 1996, the next chapter is when it came in for a landing.
In June 2004, Kenmore Air inaugurated landplane service, leasing one Cessna Caravan that flew the route to Port Angeles. This marked a significant step, providing all-weather service for both day and night commuters. The service was also less seasonal.
By July 2008, the landplane division christened Kenmore Air Express, was flying 60,000 passengers per year.
It was the next path in a path that Bob Munro had started back in 1946 when he and two men he knew in high school were working on a salvaged floatplane in a single garage.
Munro, who’d graduated from Seattle’s Roosevelt High School in 1935, married Ruth Holden in 1942, and they had raised a family there in Kenmore in a house located on the 5-acre campus that is Kenmore Air Harbor.
In 1997, he was inducted into the Pathfinder Hall of Fame at the Museum of Flight,
In 1999, he was inducted into the Washington State Aeronautics Hall of Fame.
Bob Munro died in October 2000, and while he stopped flying in the 1980s, he never retired, working at Kenmore Air throughout those 54 years. After he passed there was some question about what would happen with the business going forward. Wait. That’s not quite right. Some people had questions, but Gregg Munro and Leslie Banks, the children of Bob and Ruth Munro, kept the business open.
Gregg had worked his way up the business from flight operations manager in 1980 and later became president. Leslie Banks, Bob’s daughter, was working from her early teenage years and eventually managed the office, and her son Todd — Bob’s grandson — computerized the flight operations and upgraded the parts department computers as well.
Todd now serves as vice president of business development while his son Hunter started — as all members of the family do — with the entry-level duties like emptying the garbage, washing planes, and working the lines before becoming a Kenmore Air pilot.
Family runs deep at Kenmore Air. Clarence Rader started with Kenmore in 1946, and his son, Jerry, was later the company’s technical adviser while Steven, the grandson of Clarence, became a mechanic.
The business that Bob started would be guided by the next two generations of his family as it solidified itself not just as a business, but as a critical cog in the region’s transportation network. A critical cog that was also the coolest, now flying regular schedules as opposed to orienting itself around the charter business.
In 2018, family-owned Seattle Hospitality Group made a significant investment in Kenmore Air and in April 2023 David Gudgel took over as President and Seattle Hospitality Group is now a majority shareholder.
As a family-owned business that is more than 75 years old, the company still operates by the words of its founder, Bob Munro: “As long as we have the kind of people working for us that we’ve had since the beginning, there should be airplanes with ‘Kenmore’ on the side flying around this part of the world for a long time.”