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Senior Planner - Schedule Planning and Production
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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.

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Senior Planner - Schedule Planning and Production

The Senior Planner Schedule Planning supports the Flight Operations department with the goal of maximizing pilot efficiency, minimizing pilot costs, and ensuring a reliable operation through effective communication and planning. The position coordinates the monthly trip construction process via pairing-build optimization software and works to improve each output with feedback from internal and external stakeholders.

  • Analyzes flight segments and utilizes optimization software to build crew pairings that maximize pilot utilization while supporting operational reliability and maintaining an eye on efficiency.

  • Identifies opportunities to improve pairing solutions through collaboration with Network Planning, Crew Scheduling, Fatigue Management, Flight

    Training, Finance, and other partner groups to create a sustainable plan.

  • Analyzes flying distribution by considering the quantity of pilots available in each base that aligns with the Network Planning designed schedule period and pilots available in our workforce plan.
  • Creates monthly, quarterly, or annual presentations on analytical findings and summarizes complex concepts into visualizations for leadership that review performance metrics and identify future pairing solution improvement opportunities
  • Utilizes Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and/or other software to identify trends in on-time performance, block analysis support, and labor costs associated with pairing contractual rules to review trends and support future decisions.
  • Analyzes long range schedule plans and supports recommendations on staffing requirements in partnership with Vacancy and Strategy teams.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelors degree or 4 years of relevant work experience
  • Aviation/Aeronautics, Finance, Supply Chain, Statistics, Operations Research, Business, Logistics/ Transportation or related field
    3+ years experience in related role
  • Excel capabilities, data analysis, modelling skills
  • Leadership skills, communication, presentation development skills
  • Intellectual curiosity and self-motivation to heed signals in data and want to understand root causes and glean actionable insights from that understanding
  • Strong communication skills both verbally and through visual mediums like dashboards and PowerPoint

    Preferred

  • Masters degree
  • Workforce Planning, Crew Planning, Network Planning, or Financial Planning & Analysis

  • Familiarity with Jeppesen optimization software
  • Familiarity with FAR 117 rules

The base pay range for this role is $79,800.00 to $103,966.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodationsunited.com to request accommodation.","industry":"Industry
Company Details
United Airlines
1200 Algonquin Rd
Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60666 USA
www.united.com
113 Open Jobs Available
Commercial aviation carrying passengers and cargo worldwide.

Benefits:
Employees enjoy a full benefit package including unlimited travel for themselves and their families.
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Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Type
Permanent
Company Details
United Airlines
1200 Algonquin Rd
Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60666 USA
www.united.com
113 Open Jobs Available
Commercial aviation carrying passengers and cargo worldwide.

Benefits:
Employees enjoy a full benefit package including unlimited travel for themselves and their families.

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