Senior Engineer - Reliability

United Airlines•Chicago, IL

11d•$100,415 - $130,758•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent relevant work experience
Strong analytical skills; Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
Five years aircraft/component maintenance experience
Microsoft Office proficiency a must, good oral and written communication skills including presentation skills
Must be willing and able to work in Chicago, IL as a hybrid work schedule, 3 days in-office
Must be willing and able to travel 10-15% domestic/international
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

Nice To Haves

FAA A&P license

Responsibilities

Ensure the effectiveness of the Maintenance Program and support of the CASS Program.
Support the FAA approved Reliability Program in finding root cause failures and initiating corrective actions to improve overall reliability of the fleets and components.
Establish and maintain strong business relationships with Engineering, Technical Support and Aircraft Maintenance to execute fast, effective and coordinated repairs.
Manage workload in accordance with business requirements to achieve maximum productivity and cost control.
Identify, investigate and analyze performance deterioration of rotable airframe components/aircraft using qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Provide reliability, safety and maintainability improvements through comprehensive failure analysis and cost studies as applied with full use of standard Reliability and Quality principles, theories and concepts.
Track removable frequency of rotable serial numbers and investigate chronic candidacy.
Identify chronic aircraft.
Prepare and present recommendation of corrective actions to Technical Operations departments and United management participants at Reliability Control Board meetings.
Manage projects to final action in conjunction with Engineering, Maintenance, Modification Buyers and OEM’s.