Director, Base Maintenance Planning

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08)   
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 70530 

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

The Director, Base Maintenance Planning leads the planning and scheduling of all mandatory, routine, reliability, and project work on American Airlines aircraft throughout the system in the Base Maintenance environment.

What you'll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced.  Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Leads the assembly of base maintenance and aircraft modification workload requirements for the entire fleet to ensure optimization of available manpower and resources and to maximize aircraft available for revenue service
• Validates that AA remains in compliance with all mandatory company and FAA requirements to ensure the safe operation of the fleet
• Ensures time-tracked items are scheduled to prevent unnecessary grounding of aircraft; ensures all reliability and project-driven aircraft work is scheduled and completed within the prescribed timeframes, thus increasing reliability
• Facilitates effective communication between Base Maintenance Planning and its principal customers and vendors (e.g., Flight Ops, Supply Chain, Maintenance Control, Line Planning, Base Maintenance, etc.)
• Interfaces with Finance on budget including both current and long-range forecasts
• Works closely with Network Planning and Operations Performance and Planning to ensure alignment with corporate aircraft availability targets
• Oversees development and execution of recovery programs and plans that ensure all critical maintenance tasks are assigned and properly provisioned, in order to recover quickly from off-schedule operations
• Serves as a critical link between Engineering and Maintenance to ensure all aircraft are in compliance with AA and FAA mandated maintenance requirements and recommended reliability enhancements
• Manages a diverse workforce of managers, supervisors, and planners

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Demonstrates the highest level of ethics and integrity
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Planning, Aeronautics or related area or equivalent experience/training
• 7 years of leadership experience at the manager level or above
• 10 years of overall experience with progressive responsibility in operations, planning, scheduling or equivalent role

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• 7 years of leadership experience in an area related to base maintenance/tech ops planning
• 10 years of overall experience in technical operations, preferably within the airline industry
• In-depth knowledge of the airline industry and technical operations, American Airlines (AA) business strategy, company policies and procedures, and collective bargaining agreements

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Extensive experience implementing procedures and ensuring consistent service delivery
• Ability to influence others through outstanding interpersonal skills, collaboration, and negotiation skills
• Ability to advocate and manage change
• Ability to be an action-oriented and results-driven leader, with a natural aptitude for engaging employees across multiple workgroups
• Ability to think strategically, negotiate skillfully, digest complex details, and use sound judgment and initiative in making decisions
• Ability to identify opportunities for improvement, as well as proven success implementing strategic initiatives under time constraints 
• Ability to build and facilitate relationships at all levels of the organization, both internally and externally
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with ability to handle complex topics comfortably and to interact effectively with all levels, both verbally and written
• Excellent project planning and organizational skills, with ability to effectively and simultaneously manage multip