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About the Role

Join our Technical Operations team as a metallurgist to ensure our aircraft are well-maintained and ready for service. You will analyze failure modes, develop solutions for aircraft components, and ensure safe and legal operations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze failure modes of aircraft engines and components.
• Self-guide and manage projects with and without support from others on the team.
• Specify material process for repair development.
• Studies, analyzes, and seeks solutions to problems related to the design, operation, maintenance, performance, modification, or repair of aircraft, and their components.
• Uses a structured, logical, and analytical approach in problem solving.
• Defines maintenance program, configuration, and serviceability criteria ensuring safe and legal operation.
• Analyze and implement regulatory requirements.
• Author, design, and manage technical work scopes.
• Provide on-site technical support for shop, line, and base operations.
• Interfaces with internal and external organizations (OEMs, OSVs) regarding specific aircraft, engine, and component issues.
• Develops potentially complex solutions and implementation plans, project justification, cost/benefit analysis, management of project implementation, technical support, and obtaining FAA approvals as required.
• Coordinate work with other operational groups to ensure airworthiness, safety, regulatory compliance, operational reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Organize and manage the priorities for assigned responsibilities and accomplish the work processes to meet all the deliverables for projects or maintenance program changes/technical specification revisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy, Material Science, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent aviation maintenance experience required.
• 5 plus years of experience.
• Strong understanding of material science and metallurgy.
• Manufacturing processes including heat treat, welding, machining, casting, forging, plating, shot peen, composites.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Professional report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced maintenance environment with time-critical return to service deliverables.
• Ability to simplify complex technical issues into clear, actionable communication for non-technical audiences.
• Clear, concise executive-level communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Boeing and Airbus SRMs, SBs, and OEM documentation.
• Metallurgical and Material Science with one or more other technical degrees in related fields (Mechanical/Aerospace/Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, etc.).
• Prior airline experience a plus.
• Boeing or Airbus related structures and/or composite training preferred.
• Airline or Industry experience with general ATA Chapters which encompass, aircraft structures, and disciplines.
• Specific ATA 21, 25, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 72-chapter structures related experience.
• NAA, NTSB and Aerospace OEM joint investigation experience.
• Understanding of wet and dry analytical chemistry techniques.
• High level of knowledge level of analytical instrumentations and techniques such as scanning electron microscope.

Skills

• Metallurgy
• Material science
• Heat treating
• Welding
• Shot peen
• Properties of aerospace metal alloys
• Metallographic sample preparation
• Microstructure analysis
• SEM lab oversight
• Project management
• Analytical approach
• Technical writing
• Presentation skills
• Communication skills
• Boeing documentation
• Airbus documentation
• Analytical chemistry techniques
• Analytical instrumentations

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5 plus years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy, Material Science, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent aviation maintenance experience

Salary/Compensations

• $100,415.00 to $130,758.00

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life insurance
• Accident & disability insurance
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Commuter benefits
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• 401(k)
• Flight privileges

About the Company

• 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.
• Technical Operations includes the maintenance and overhaul of our aircraft.

Equal Opportunity

• United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact JobAccommodations@united.com