United Airlines - Chicago, IL

posted 5 months ago

Full-time
Chicago, IL
Air Transportation

About the position

There's never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We're on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose - Connecting People, Uniting the World - is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we're growing - in the years ahead, we'll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world? The Ops Products and Strategy team is responsible for developing the tools which support airline operations at United. As such, the team is responsible for standardizing and automating information to provide the context for our operational leaders to make real-time decisions to run a safe, caring, dependable, and efficient airline. The team is responsible for working with operational users to understand the issues they face, define the problem that needs to be solved, and writing the logic that needs to be developed to solve the problem. The analyst works collaboratively with multiple departments to support the goals, objectives, and projects of operational teams. This position is responsible for providing information that supports operations using existing data to evaluate operational performance and communicating results to identify and make recommendations for improvements. The analyst will develop presentations, generate performance reports, and is responsible for supporting the organization with suggestions for new tools and methods of reporting to meet business goals. This self-starting individual will use knowledge of operational performance to create new ideas, take them from concept to deployment and collaborate with various teams. Assist operational users in capturing business requirements and support in communicating final analysis to leadership, and coordinate with IT team to ensure tools meet requirements to support operational needs by helping to plan and conduct quality assurance testing. Help evaluate business processes, identify requirements, suggest areas for improvement by developing functional requirements and user stories. Support network and station operations initiatives aimed at enhancing operational communication to drive efficiency, consistency, and accountability. Support the monitoring of airline performance and assist operational leaders in addressing performance issues by improving operational tools. Coordinate with training and change management teams to help deliver effective communication and training to successfully launch new or updated tools and procedures.

Responsibilities

  • Develop tools to support airline operations at United.
  • Standardize and automate information for operational leaders.
  • Collaborate with operational users to understand issues and define problems.
  • Write logic to solve operational problems.
  • Provide information to support operations using existing data.
  • Evaluate operational performance and communicate results.
  • Develop presentations and generate performance reports.
  • Support the organization with suggestions for new tools and reporting methods.
  • Assist operational users in capturing business requirements.
  • Coordinate with IT to ensure tools meet operational needs.
  • Evaluate business processes and suggest areas for improvement.
  • Support network and station operations initiatives.
  • Monitor airline performance and assist in addressing performance issues.
  • Coordinate with training and change management teams for effective communication.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
  • 2+ years of relevant experience.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
  • Ability to work with cross-functional groups.
  • Strong relationship building skills.
  • Highly organized with the ability to multi-task.
  • Willingness to travel 15% of the time domestically and internationally.
  • Ability to work a hybrid work schedule.

Nice-to-haves

  • Bachelor's degree with an emphasis on airline management, aviation, or industrial engineering.
  • 2+ years' experience in operations, airline, process engineering, quantitative and qualitative analysis.
  • Strong knowledge of airport and network operations.
  • Experience with process/system mapping and analysis.
  • Experience using at least one database management system.

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Parental leave
  • Space available travel privileges
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