Sr Production Controller

United Airlines • Houston, TX

98d • $87,780 - $114,376

About The Position

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

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience.
• Airframe and Powerplant License.
• 10 years aircraft maintenance.
• Solid understanding of maintenance planning and execution.
• 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

• 5 years heavy aircraft maintenance and production control experience.
• Working Knowledge of SCEPTRE.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall aircraft flow and paperwork accountability.
• Responsibilities range from complete event preplanning, aircraft induction and release process, daily flow and accountability ensuring aircraft is on track, and post check reporting.
• Liaise with multiple departments to resolve issues and maintain aircraft flow.
• Determine head count requirements to maintain required production levels.
• Report and analyze aircraft material costs.
• Shop responsibility to plan daily workload and develop long range plan for upcoming maintenance events.
• Manage repair order and job order to include shop authorization documentation, material requirements, and production velocity requirements.
• Interact with purchasing, technical planning, engineering to support shop events.
• Regulatory compliance review of all documentation.
• Develop, implement and manage overall aircraft check flow.
• Daily management and workflow of aircraft or shop workloads to optimize resources.
• Building task assignments for oncoming shifts.
• Paperwork accountability and regulatory compliance.
• Status reporting and issue resolution.
• Forecasting and planning for necessary headcount.
• Pre-induction preparation and post check analysis.
• Communications with multiple support departments to ensure required resources are available to maintain necessary production.
• Complete preplanning and detailed flow of event staged in manageable and logical sequence.
• Compile, analyze, and report on check performance.
• Cross event reporting and analysis.
• Manage support shop resources and workload.
• Coordinate shop resources for heavy check and in service aircraft.
• Manage Repair Orders and job Orders.
• Shop authorization required resources.
• Production velocity.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability insurance.
• Parental leave.
• Employee assistance program.
• Commuter benefits.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid time off.
• 401(k).
• Flight privileges.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Air Transportation
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree