Principal Project Manager, Technical Operations Project Management Office

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

As a Principal Project Manager on the Supply Chain Transformation team, you will lead the strategy, planning, and execution of complex, cross functional initiatives that modernize how we manage inventory, streamline material flow, and strengthen end to end supply chain performance. You’ll partner with leaders across Supply Chain, Tech Ops, and Integrated Operations to drive clarity, alignment, and measurable outcomes for some of our highest impact programs.
 
In this role, you will shape program vision, translate goals into actionable plans, manage timelines and risks, and ensure initiatives deliver meaningful operational, financial, and reliability improvements. If you excel at navigating ambiguity, influencing across teams, and delivering enterprise wide transformation, this role offers the chance to make a visible and lasting impact.

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.

• Facilitates program visioning, road mapping and execution of key activities across multiple Tech Ops functional teams (Engineering, Planning Supply, Production), Tech Ops enabling workstreams (Product and Analytics, OpEx, Training and Change Enablement), non-Tech Ops enablers (Tech Ops IT, Finance, CRE), and third party vendors
• Works with project champion, impacted business function owners and supporting teams to formulate and evaluate possible paths forward and key decisions, while challenging the status
• Coordinates dependencies across processes and organizations
• Persuasively makes recommendations for improvements to existing processes
• Works with project champion, impacted business function owners and supporting teams to quantify and prepare program stakeholders for change
• Understands, assesses, and proactively manages risk and impacts to business in adherence to company Safety Management System (SMS) best practices
• Prepares and delivers program updates to numerous audiences and Senior Leaders at Tech Ops strategic forum

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree or equivalent experience/training
• 5+ years of direct Project Management experience or relevant experience 
• Evidence of direct Project Management experience

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Current PMP certification
• Maintenance operations background/experience in one or more Technical Operations areas

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Solid understanding of business transformation efforts
• Success leading and managing large, complex, multi-year cross-functional programs
• Demonstrated results setting targets, executing plans, and delivering results
• Solid knowledge of standard Project Management frameworks, principles, processes, and tools
• Highly engaged individual with strong sense of urgency to steer program team to deliver results
• Proficiency in MS Project, MS Visio, and other MS Office products
• Strong analytical abilities
• Strong written and oral communications skills
• Strong presentation creation and delivery skills
• Exposure to software development frameworks and methodologies
• Comfortably and persuasively interacts with personnel of all levels

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer: 

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