Senior Manager - Pilot Plan Development & Production

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Description

Get ready for a career at the leading edge of the airline industry! Our Flight Operations team works hard to connect people and unite the world safely, reliably and efficiently every single day. From industry leadership and pioneering technologies to next-level training courses, our Flight Ops team hires, trains, qualifies and supports the best pilots in the industry. The moments we share in the air and on the ground with our customers and our colleagues make United a special place to work and a great way to fly, together.

Job overview and responsibilities

The Senior Manager of Pilot Plan Production leads the two teams that develop the monthly pairings from Network Planning schedules and the monthly pilot schedules and awards. The Senior Manager serves as the lead stakeholder across the planning production cycle to ensure we execute in alignment with the broader Flight Ops staffing and operational goals, manage through constraints in the system, utilize our custom tools to maximize efficiency, and ensure we are partnering with key stakeholders across United to deliver a well-executed plan each month. Through partnership with Workforce Planning, Flight Training Scheduling, Network Planning, Fatigue Management, Digital Technology, and pilot union leadership, this role navigates building schedules that are UPA and FAR compliant and delivering awards to the pilots that set up our pilots and operation for a successful month. This role leads a team of nine planners through the two managers. The Senior Manager of Pilot Plan Production is a vital member of the integrated planning effort that allows us to deliver an efficient, reliable, and strategic plan each month to support one of United’s most critical resources – our 18,000+ pilots!

- Lead the team through the monthly plan production cycle including schedule construction, pairings investment decision making, reserve profile execution, award bidding and optimization, and more, while ensuring close coordination, accuracy and contractual adherence to achieve the plan’s expectations

- Work cross-functionally throughout United (e.g., Workforce Planning, Network Planning, Training Scheduling, Fatigue Management, Digital Technology, union leadership) to ensure viability and efficiency of pilot pairings and awards, identify opportunities to improve efficiency, and advance long term collaborative efforts for training, staffing, and qualification needs