Manager - Tech Ops Strategic Planning

Job Description:

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.

Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.

Description

Find your future at United!

We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.

Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.

Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together.

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:

As Manager – Strategic Planning, you’ll lead decision-making, analytics, reporting, and data management for aircraft maintenance planning. You’ll drive projects that balance routine maintenance and special modification projects, ensuring cost efficiency and safety while supporting fleet optimization.

Lead regular reviews of airframe activity, analyzing trends in fleet, labor, and facilities to enhance operational efficiency.
Develop and implement aircraft maintenance strategies to optimize costs and ensure safety.
Provide detailed performance analysis for maintenance checks, identifying opportunities for improvement.
Collaborate with Production and Support teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Manage resource allocations to support maintenance check activity and ensure alignment with senior leadership.
Coordinate maintenance planning with internal and external facilities to meet airframe heavy check requirements.
Partner with production leadership and support departments to align activities with strategic maintenance goals.

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience in strategy, planning, forecasting, continuous improvement, or maintenance/aircraft scheduling.
- Proficiency in data analysis and quantitative modeling techniques (e.g., statistical analysis, optimization, simulation).
- Strong project management and prioritization skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact at all organizational levels, including executives.
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
- 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):

- Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Experience in airline planning or analysis.
- Project Management or Lean Six Sigma certification.
- Airframe and Power Plant (A&P) certification.

The base pay range for this role is $99,750.00 to $129,924.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

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. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT.

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Job Ident #: WHQ00025304

Company Details

United Airlines

1200 Algonquin Rd
Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60666 USA
www.united.com

Commercial aviation carrying passengers and cargo worldwide.

Benefits:
Employees enjoy a full benefit package including unlimited travel for themselves and their families.

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Job Info

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Type

Permanent

Company Details

United Airlines

1200 Algonquin Rd
Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60666 USA
www.united.com

Commercial aviation carrying passengers and cargo worldwide.

Benefits:
Employees enjoy a full benefit package including unlimited travel for themselves and their families.