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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.\nDescription\nAt 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.\nJob Overview and Responsibilities\nThe Base Maintenance Technical Planner is responsible for the management of aircraft heavy maintenance visits at internal and vendor facilities. This includes building work packages to include all critical maintenance tasks, coordination with other key work groups such as Materials, Tooling, and Engineering to ensure the visit is set-up for success, supporting the station while the aircraft is in work and ensuring successful release of the aircraft. This position also includes research and data analysis in order to identify optimization opportunities and creative solutions. Candidates should have problem solving skills and an innovative mindset in addition to technical knowledge.\nCreate and deliver on-time work maintenance packages for the stations/fleet within work scope and budgeted labor hours, span and cost.\nProvide support to the maintenance station and work with Maintenance Programs, Engineering, Records, and other Planning groups to resolve issues.\nCoordinate with the airframe vendor management team, materials, QC and tooling to prepare for the induction of the aircraft.\nReview post-visit information and analyze historical data to identify improvement opportunities to the maintenance program, scheduling, or visit workflow.\nPropose and implement solutions.\nModify work packages as necessary to account for hangar plan changes or work to be added or deleted.\nCoordinate changes with the station and other affected groups.\nWork with Airframe Contracts, Engineering, Reliability and Project Planning to capture key reliability projects in visit work scope while considering impact of visit cost and span time.\nQualifications\nWhat’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent in aircraft maintenance or maintenance planning experience\nEngineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Supply Chain/Logistics, Business or related field\n1+ years technical experience\nStrong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, with ability to effectively interact at all levels (including executive) and team with all internal and external business partners\nData analysis and quantitative modeling techniques (e.g., statistical, optimization, simulation, spreadsheet)\nBe adept at juggling several projects and initiatives simultaneously through appropriate prioritization\nProficient in Excel and PowerPoint\nDemonstrated work ethic through previous employment or team projects \nWhat will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):\nAerospace, Mechanical, Industrial or Electrical Engineering\nFAA Airframe and Powerplant License\nLean/Six Sigma Certification\nExperience working for an airline, aviation, or related technical field (including internships)\nAircraft maintenance or maintenance planning experience\nAircraft Maintenance or engineering background\nFamiliarity with aircraft Maintenance Programs\nKnowledge of aircraft systems\nFamiliarity with Project Planning\nExposure to continuous improvement principles and tool\nFinancial calculation (labor hours, materials, etc.)\nDemonstrates an understanding of capabilities and limitations of generative AI tools and effectively leverages them for research, analysis, content creation and problem solving, applies critical thinking to validate AI-generated outputs while adhering to company policies related to responsible AI use, data privacy and security\nThe base pay range for this role is $73,150.00 to $95,224.00.\nThe 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.\nYou 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.\nUnited Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. 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