Manager - Maintenance Programs

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.

Job overview and responsibilities

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.

Provide oversight of a high functioning matrix team of maintenance program engineers within the technical operations department. This role would manage day-to-day activities, project assignments and effectively utilize available resources in support of the organization's responsibilities and strategic initiatives. The position must have knowledge of technical aspects like design and optimization of aircraft maintenance programs. This position will play a key role in facilitating coordination among the larger Maintenance Programs teams to ensure the team meet department objectives.

• Work within Matrix Organization to supervise a team of 10+ Engineers, including coordinating scope of responsibilities, managing workload and ownership amongst team members, and defining and tracking team metrics.
  
• Act as interface with both US and India maintenance programs teams to develop coordinated maintenance programs strategies and its implementation.
  
• Drive review of processes for identification of areas of optimization to increase team
  throughput.
• Focus on professional growth and development of team members to achieve team goals and departmental goals.
  
• As needed work with senior leadership on hiring the right talent for the maintenance programs team.

This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.