Business jet on jacks inside a maintenance hangar
Aviation Maintenance Workforce

Hire aviation techniciansWho Stay.

JetBridge Aviation connects MROs, Part 145 repair stations and operators with A&P, avionics and emerging maintenance talent through direct recruiting, school-to-employer pipelines and placement follow-through.

Est. 2025
South Florida
13,100 U.S. technician openings projected each year 1 in 3 aviation maintenance school seats sit unfilled 125,000 new technicians needed in North America through 2045 Avionics: most in demand, least recruited 30-day placement support 13,100 U.S. technician openings projected each year 1 in 3 aviation maintenance school seats sit unfilled 125,000 new technicians needed in North America through 2045 Avionics: most in demand, least recruited 30-day placement support
13,100
Aircraft and avionics technician openings projected each year in the United States, 2025 to 2035.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
1 in 3
Available aviation maintenance school seats remain unfilled.
ATEC 2025 Pipeline Report
125,000
New maintenance technicians projected to be needed in North America through 2045 in commercial aviation.
Boeing 2026 Pilot & Technician Outlook
Sources · BLS · ATEC · Boeing
I · The Practice

We fill the roles your job posts cannot.

Open headcount. Wrong candidates. Wasted weeks. This is not a problem we read about in a quarterly report. JetBridge was founded from firsthand experience inside the aviation maintenance environment, where a missed hire means a delayed check and a director of maintenance explaining backlog to the customer.

JetBridge Aviation is an independent aviation workforce company. We are not a repair station and we are not owned by one. What we bring is an operating perspective on what it costs to leave a seat open, and what the wrong fit costs once it is filled.

II · What We Do

Four pillars.
One aviation focus.

01

Direct-Hire Placement

FAA-certificated A&P mechanics, avionics technicians, structures and component technicians, and helpers placed permanently onto your headcount. Matched on certificate, aircraft platform, technical skill and shop environment.

Permanent Placement
02

School-to-Employer Pipeline

We work alongside aviation maintenance programs and Career Services teams, bringing them live employer requirements so graduates reach real shops instead of job boards.

Education Partnerships
03

Workforce Intelligence

Compensation ranges, hiring demand and pipeline supply by role and region, so an offer goes out at a number that actually closes and a requirement is written against the market that exists.

Compensation & Demand Data
04

Placement & Retention Support

Structured check-ins with the technician and the employer at 30, 60 and 90 days. A placement is not finished on the first day it is worked.

30 / 60 / 90 Follow-Through
III · The JetBridge Flywheel

How employer demand
becomes a hire that stays.

Aviation education produces the talent. Aviation employers hold the demand. JetBridge owns the bridge between them.

01

Demand In

Your opening becomes a written requirement: pay, shift, aircraft platform, certificate level, location and start date. Not a job post.

02

Screened and Placed

We recruit against it directly, screen on credentials, tools and shop environment, and place a permanent direct hire.

03

Data Back

Check-ins with both sides at 30, 60 and 90 days, feeding what we learn about pay and supply into the next search.

Every outcome makes the next search faster and the next pay recommendation defensible.

See all six stages
IV · Placement Support

Placement is not finished
on day one.

Most recruiters close the file when someone starts. That is exactly where the risk begins, and where the useful information is.

Day 0

Placement

Start date confirmed. Compensation, shift and scope documented for both sides so expectations match on day one.

Day 30

Candidate and Employer Check

Separate conversations with the technician and the hiring manager. Onboarding, tooling, training and workload against what was promised.

Day 60

Fit and Performance Signal

Is the technician performing at the level the requirement described, and is the shop the environment the technician was told it would be.

Day 90

Outcome and Workforce Feedback

Placement outcome recorded, plus what it taught us about compensation, competition and pipeline supply in that market.

30-day replacement coverage is available and is set out in the placement agreement. Terms are agreed in writing before any search begins.

Engine nacelle opened for maintenance inside a hangar
The Cost Of An Open Seat

Labor is the constraint, not the hangar.

An aircraft does not move faster because hangar space is available. It moves when a qualified technician is on it. Every week a seat stays open is throughput a shop has already sold and cannot deliver, and it is the reason a workforce gap shows up on the schedule long before it shows up in a report.

Photograph · South Florida hangar
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Are you a technician?

A&P mechanic, avionics technician, structures or component technician, helper, aviation maintenance student or recent graduate. We work for employers, and we work with you. Free for every technician, always.

Brittani, founder of JetBridge Aviation
V · The Founder

Built from the shop floor up.

JetBridge was built by people who work in aviation, not by generalist recruiters learning the industry from job descriptions.

It was founded from firsthand experience inside the aviation maintenance environment, where hiring decisions affect throughput, turnaround time and customer commitments. That operating perspective shapes how we evaluate talent, how we write an employer requirement, and how we read a workforce gap.

It is also why JetBridge is not a resume dump. We screen for what matters once someone is inside the hangar: technical ability, reliability, communication, pace and whether the person fits the environment they are walking into.

Brittani, Founder & Principal
More about JetBridge
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Tell us about your open headcount.

Role, certificate requirement, aircraft platform, compensation range, shift and start date. Every inquiry gets a response within one business day, from Brittani directly.

Monthly Aviation Workforce Brief

Compensation movement, hiring demand and pipeline data for aviation maintenance, drawn from public workforce sources and our own anonymized intake. One email per month.