Director-aircraft Programs Engineering - Chicago, United States - United Airlines

United Airlines

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Chicago, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

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.

Key Responsibilities:

The Director of Aircraft Programs Engineering leads the aircraft induction and customer experience modification engineering teams at United.

The Director will lead the technical coordination of aircraft specifications and aircraft Service Ready process in partnership with the OEMs to monitor and improve entry-into-service aircraft performance.

To achieve improved fleet reliability, the Director will analyze factory defects, OEM quality rework logs, in-service interruption events, pilot reports, component removals, deferrals data, etc.

and drive root cause and corrective actions with the OEMs.

The Director will also lead a team responsible for aircraft customer experience modifications and coordinate the review of the technical data and cost estimation as well as the induction projects for used aircraft.

To execute these aircraft projects, the Director will collaborate with OEMs, internal teams, and suppliers to ensure technical requirements, costs and schedules are met.

Other:

This position is based in Seattle, Chicago, or Houston
Travel up to 50% depending on base location including international travel is required. Team members are based in Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, and India.
Support outside of normal working hours for our 24/7 operation may be required.
US citizenship required.

Safety and compliance - Ensure that new and used aircraft inducted meet United and Federal Aviation Regulation requirements. Addressing and follow up on all factory or post-delivery quality defects ensures conformity, safety and compliance.

Reliability - ensure that inducted aircraft are operating reliably and reliability drivers because of the factory or induction processes are addressed. Assess production incorporations in advance for impact on United procedures and identify reliability risks.

Team development - develop the New Aircraft Engineering team to grow talent and technical expertise across our diverse fleet. Perform hiring and review functions to ensure top performance on an ongoing basis.

Project management - guide the development and delivery of complex projects, coordination of service ready programs on multiple fleet types to prepare the airlines to accept the fleet and drive cross functional coordination of reconfiguration and modification projects as well as technical coordination of new and used aircraft programs.

Continuous improvement - ensure an end to end closed and continuous feedback loop with the OEMs on new entry into service performance and follow up on items that interrupt dispatch reliability of new aircraft. Improve the service ready process and coordinate improvements across multiple work groups. Drive and demonstrate that aircraft deliveries of tomorrow are performing better than those of today.

Qualifications:

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

Bachelor's Degree (Aviation Management or Engineering)
3+ years management experience,
7+ years engineering experience
Extensive knowledge of FARs (Federal Aviation Regulation), airworthiness design and substantiation criteria, aircraft and equipment design and operational characteristics, aircraft materials and processes.

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