About the Role
This position serves as the voice of the customer in the System Operations Center (SOC), influencing decisions during disruption planning, execution, and recovery. The Manager CEX Duty is responsible for all customer facets of day-to-day operational tasks, ensuring quality, efficiency, and consistency in operational policies and standards. This role ensures team success in operational targets and goals and coordinates real-time disruption events, executing customer recovery efforts and mitigating operational challenges.
Responsibilities
- Partner with operational teams to identify operational challenges and proactively develop recovery strategies for impacted customers, ensuring quality customer service and compliance with the Customer Recovery Plan.
- Coordinate with Operational workgroups to support daily operations and customer experience, including fee waivers, extra section recommendations, cancellation impact, misconnects processing, and service experience impact.
- Assess, execute, and communicate operational decisions to teams responsible for disruption recovery, ensuring safety, quality customer experience, and sound economics.
- Oversee and manage the workflow and assignments of customer disruption recovery focused roles.
- Serve as a key leader to Customer Service Coordinators to ensure teams execute and communicate recovery plans.
- Request, edit, and ensure real-time operational customer communications are published or delivered.
- Create, communicate, and execute customer recovery plans during disruptions caused by weather, air-traffic control (ATC), maintenance, security, or customer issues.
- Take an active role in implementing process improvements for customer recovery procedures, including participating in or conducting team debriefs.
- Serve as support for operational teams, relaying information relevant to the operation that will impact staffing or posture.
- Coach, guide, and support teams responsible for recovery efforts, including conducting shift briefings.
- Ensure compliance with JetBlue’s Customer Service Plan through daily oversight and auditing.
- Take a significant role in the development of crewmembers to support their engagement, growth, and goal achievement.
- Undertake ad-hoc projects to improve team morale, process, and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) Diploma
- One (1) year of Leadership experience
- Five (5) years of prior airline operational experience
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong organization and management skills
- Ability to think creatively and to work under pressure in a team environment
- Ability to work independently with a sense of urgency and attention to detail
- Strong leadership skills and interpersonal skills
- Available for overnight travel (10%)
- Ability to work flexible work schedule to cover the operation 24 hours per day, 7 days per week
- Must pass a pre-employment drug test
- Must be legally eligible to work in the country in which the position is located
- Authorization to work in the US is required. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Organization
- Management
- Creative thinking
- Working under pressure
- Teamwork
- Independent work
- Urgency
- Attention to detail
- Leadership
- Interpersonal skills
- Project Management
- Analytical abilities
Location
- Long Island City
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Leadership experience
- Airline operational experience
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline (Operations Management, Business Administration) preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $83,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year
Benefits
- Performance bonuses
- Restricted stock units
- Healthcare benefits
- 401(k) plan and company match
- Crewmember stock purchase plan
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Free space available travel on JetBlue
About the Company
- JetBlue culture
- JetBlue values of Safety, Caring, Integrity, Passion and Fun
- JetBlue’s Safety Management System (SMS)
Equal Opportunity
- Must fulfill safety accountabilities as prescribed by JetBlue’s Safety Management System
- Promote JetBlue’s #1 value of safety as a Safety Ambassador, supporting JetBlue’s Safety Management System (SMS) components, Safety Policy and behavioral standards
- Identify safety and security concerns, issues, incidents or hazards that should be reported and report them whenever possible and by any means necessary including JetBlue’s confidential reporting systems (Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) and Safety Action Report (SAR))
- Responsible for adhering to all applicable laws, regulations (FAA, OSHA, DOT, etc.) and Company policies, procedures and risk controls
- Uphold JetBlue’s safety performance metric goals and understand how they relate to their duties and responsibilities.
- The use of ChatGPT or any other automated tool during the interview process will disqualify a candidate from being considered for the position.
