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Description

There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?

At United, we have some of the best aircraft in the world. Our Technical Operations team is full of aircraft maintenance technicians, engineers, planners, ground equipment and facilities professionals, and supply chain teams that help make sure they’re well taken care of and ready to get our customers to their desired destinations. If you’re ready to work on our planes, join our Tech Ops experts and help keep our fleet in tip-top shape.

We have a wide variety of career opportunities around the world - come find yours.

Technical Operations/Maintenance

Technical Operations includes the maintenance, and overhaul of our aircraft. This includes aircraft maintenance technicians, engineers, planners, ground equipment and facilities teams, supply chain teams and more.

Job overview and responsibilities

Responsible for overall aircraft flow and paperwork accountability. Responsibilities range from complete event preplanning, aircraft induction and release process, daily flow and accountability ensuring aircraft is on track, and post check reporting. Liaise with multiple departments to resolve issues and maintain aircraft flow. Determine head count requirements to maintain required production levels. Report and analyze aircraft material costs. Shop responsibility to plan daily workload and develop long range plan for upcoming maintenance events. Manage repair order and job order to include shop authorization documentation, material requirements, and production velocity requirements. Interact with purchasing, technical planning, engineering to support shop events. Regulatory compliance review of all documentation. SR Production Controllers regularly step into maintenance supervisor rolls managing direct reports which require a solid understating and application of union work rules.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing, implementing and managing overall aircraft check flow

• Daily management and workflow of aircraft or shop workloads to optimize resources

• Building task assignments for oncoming shifts

• Paperwork accountability and regulatory compliance

• Status reporting and issue resolution

• Forecasting and planning for necessary headcount

• Pre-induction preparation and post check Analysis

• Communications with multiple support departments to ensure required resources are available to maintain necessary production

• Complete preplanning and detailed flow of event staged in manageable and logical sequence

• Compile, analyze, and report on check performance

• Cross event reporting and analysis

• Manage support shop resources and workload

• Coordinate shop resources for heavy check and in service aircraft

• Manage Repair Orders and job Orders

• Shop authorization

• Required resources

• Production velocity

• Compile, analyze, and report on check performance

• Regulatory compliance of maintenance documents

United values diverse experiences, perspectives, and we encourage everyone who meets the minimum qualifications to apply. While having the “desired” qualifications make for a stronger candidate, we encourage applicants who may not feel they check ALL of those boxes! We are always looking for individuals who will bring something new to the table!

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience

• Airframe and Powerplant License

• 10 years aircraft maintenance

• Solid understanding of maintenance planning and execution

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship

• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• Five years heavy aircraft maintenance and production control experience

• Working Knowledge of SCEPTRE

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.

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