Airframe Vendor Maintenance - Program Manager

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: Product Managers, Heavy Maintenance are responsible for direct oversight of scheduledunscheduled maintenance, repair, overhaul and modification within the Out-Side Vendor (OSV) network. This role requires a front-line leader who is proficient with many facets of aircraft maintenance while also prioritizing healthy relationships with interfacing departments. Project Managers collaborate with numerous stakeholders to deliver a safe, compliant and predictable product to the operation while ensuring deliverables meet contractual needs of the airlines' longer-term goals. Agility, resilience and professionalism are key attributes for this role meshed with exacting standards for performance, partnership and integrity. Achieving predictable results in accordance with United Airline's Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP) while executing against schedule and budgetary forecast is paramount. Direct oversight of safety, quality & compliance IAW, UAL, CAMP, GMM & other regulatory documents. Direct oversight of performance & flow execution within accepted commitments to airline. Actively participate in visit preparation meetings to ensure successful execution Assist in review of span & pricing agreements at induction & exit of visits Act us UAL central interfacing point for stakeholder groups to maintain production flow Ensure accurate & timely reporting accomplished as directed by SOP & OSV initiatives Administer contractual guidance in all facets of oversight & billing compliance. Review & approve visit invoicing IAW established pricing & trend data - resolve disputes Oversee & implement UAL OSV SMS toolsets, championing continuous improvement & standardization Special projects as assigned to improve, standardize & share best practices Qualifications What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications): Bachelor's degree or equivalent aviation experience Minimum of 7 years overall aviation industry experience Minimum of 3-4 years supervisory, project management experience in aviation related fields, aircraft technical expertise with proven track record. FAA Airframe and Powerplant Certificate Aircraft heavy maintenance, troubleshooting ability Technical expertise & aircraft troubleshooting ability Aircraft maintenance management Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with internal and external business partners Proven organization and leadership skills with the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships Ability to partner in a variable and complex environment achieving predictable results, partnership and relationship building along the way. What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications): Bachelor's degree in aviation related fieldFAA Airframe and Powerplant Certificate Supervision of management team members, budget management, data analytics & Tend recognition. Fleet specific engine runtaxi, GenFam Finance, Project Management, Airline Operations Engineering, Inspection or Planning role.

Created: 2025-02-27