Manager - Base Maintenance Material Operations

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network. Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together. Description 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. If you’re ready to work on our planes, join our Tech Ops experts and help keep our fleet in tip-top shape. Job Overview and Responsibilities The Manager of Base Maintenance Materials Coordination oversees a large and geographically diverse team of coordinators embedded in United’s heavy maintenance operation, responsible for planning and fulfillment of all routine heavy check materials and sourcing and expediting of urgent non-routine material requests. The Manager is responsible for daily management and oversight of the United heavy maintenance materials operation, focusing on key department metrics to make time critical operational decisions. The Manager is a team leader that works with their embedded coordinators daily to ensure they are equipped and focused on solving complex materials operational challenges to ensure best in industry materials delivery performance. Manage in-house and OSV Base Maintenance Material Coordinators to include attendance reporting, scheduling, evaluating and assisting in selecting and completing achievable goals: Represent the department at daily production meeting(s) for issues that could potentially become WSP/AOG situations in order to avoid ETR delays Create, manage and maintain procedures to standardize the job functions of the in-house and OSV coordinators, to include evaluating current company procedures to determine and implement the most efficient/effective procedures for the new United Airlines Perform all functions of the Base Maintenance Material Coordinator in the event of a short staffing situation for any given heavy maintenance station Responsible for new station start-ups and supplier closures Applying knowledge from past start-ups to progressively increase the efficiency and expediency of starting a new station To include all meetings with internal departments as well as the supplier To perform station visits and random audits to ensure contract adherence To handle disposition of materials and transportation arrangements To work with OSV Stores and Purchasing division heads to set up initial processes based on the individual negotiated contract To arrange initial Training of OSV personnel on MOS, Sceptre & Sceptre shipping and receiving functions when opening a new station Work with station managers & cargo facilities at each station that we are shipping parts, to ensure proper routing to each aircraft Set up with New MOS access and new Sceptre access requirements at all new start-up stations Perform computer functions for the supplier during system outages during the maintenance event Create and manage departmental projects and goals that will result in a bottom-line Cost Savings/Avoidance and handle any new project start-ups: Address any issues/concerns that are brought to light via internal departments or external companies Review Purchase Orders as they are routed into Manager Review status and raise awareness of any order to the appropriate level at OEM’s and Suppliers to ensure timely delivery of material to avoid maintenance delays Extensive travel throughout all Base Maintenance stations, in-house and OSV to work with the maintenance customer to: Review current procedures and trends with heavy maintenance station management and facilitate changes if/as needed in order to streamline the future operatio…

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