Senior Fleet Manager

Company

Alaska Airlines

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you. 

Role Summary

The Sr. Fleet Manager is the subject matter expert in the overall health of a fleet, and cross-functional coordination required to improve fleet performance at Alaska Airlines (AS). As an individual contributor, this role exercises considerable judgement to make decisions in integrating engineering, operational and commercial considerations to ensure the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations of the AS fleet.

Key Duties

• Act as the subject matter expert to compile a holistic view of fleet health, with a monthly fleet-specific report of key operational and financial performance indicators, top reliability drivers, cost drivers, opportunities and threats, mandatory and discretionary engineering projects, major issues and action items. Leverages existing data, analysis, and dashboards produced by Maintenance and Engineering (M&E) Reliability.
• With minimal direction works with various disciplines within engineering, including reliability, maintenance program, configuration controls, and commodity engineering groups, to drive focus on the fleet issues.
• Participates in aircraft configuration projects serving as primary participant for M&E issues related to systems and avionics configuration of the aircraft definition.
• Participates in aircraft induction phase to represent Maintenance and Engineering addressing aircraft integration issues related to the maintenance and technical induction of the new fleet.
• Works with OEM, Reliability, Engineering, Line Maintenance, Supply Chain, Inflight and other groups as necessary to establish comprehensive health monitoring reporting and baseline configuration management of the fleet.
• Make data driven recommendations to fleet operations.
• Participates in new aircraft delivery activities as needed to ensure the aircraft meets acceptance criteria.
• Provides a level of oversight for the portfolio of engineering projects affecting the assigned fleet to ensure schedule and cost adherence.
• Collaborates with various areas of Maintenance and Engineering to understand issues related to fleet reliability.
• Works with vendors and warranty team to understand contractual and commercial implications of technical options to help ensure that the solutions that we implement are optimized both technically and financially.
• Participates in OEM and other industry forums related to the fleet type, understand and anticipate current and emerging issues for the assigned fleet.
• Attends Reliability RWG and RCB meetings.
• Mentor the team of other analysts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related field, or related field; or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• 4 years of airline industry or aviation related experience with transport category aircraft, and experience in a Fleet Management or Fleet Introduction role; or related area.
• Project, program, or portfolio management experience.
• Familiar with aircraft reliability drivers and maintenance processes.
• Ability to build and sustain cross-divisional business relationships.
• Ability to lead and sustain successful teams by strategizing, coordinating, and planning logistics.
• Ability to effectively and persuasively present detailed information to all levels of management in the organization, including the investment council and board of directors.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.

Starting Rate

Salary Range

$115,350 - $173,050 / year

Bonus

Salary Details

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.