About the position
Find your future at United! We're reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be - from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you're joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward. Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world's biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups. Create what's next with us. 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.
Responsibilities
- Provide 24x7x365 engineering technical support for United Airlines worldwide fleet of operational aircraft to ensure timely return to service.
- Work in a hangar environment near airplanes.
- Collaborate with technicians and other coworkers to creatively resolve aircraft on the ground situations.
- Fix and find solutions, perform repairs and modifications on aircraft structures, interiors, flight controls, systems, and avionics.
- Provide engineering assistance to maintenance consisting of technical data research, process development, and procedure clarification.
- Investigate maintenance problems during line and overnight maintenance and initiate corrective actions to return aircraft to service in a timely manner.
- Collaborate and work with both internal and external customers to address technical issues and provide work scope recommendations.
- Coordinate work with other operational groups to ensure airworthiness, safety, regulatory compliance, operational reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with industry, regulatory, and/or governmental agencies to establish policies and procedures as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or related experience in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace), related technical field or equivalent relative work experience.
- 5-8 years of experience for Senior Line Engineer I; 8 years + for Senior Line Engineer II.
- Ability to interpret complex and technical Engineering and OEM documents.
- Highly detailed level project development and management for regulatory compliance modifications.
- Ability to communicate detailed, technical information under time-bound and stressful situations.
- Working knowledge of airline or OEM operations.
- Knowledge of Code of Regulations (CFRs), airworthiness design and substantiation criteria, aircraft and equipment design and operational characteristics.
- Must be available to work any shift including nights and weekends as well as holidays.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position.
Nice-to-haves
- Specific ATA experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability insurance.
- Parental leave.
- Employee assistance program.
- Commuter benefits.
- Paid holidays.
- Paid time off.
- 401(k) plan.
- Flight privileges.
