Job Description
Ready to join one of the world’s leading airlines and work in a fast-paced, challenging environment and like to solve complex problems, then join a dynamic, enthusiastic, and innovative team in one of United Airlines Technical Operations Teams. During your summer experience, you will be fully immersed in our collaborative culture that is built with an emphasis on diversity of thought. Our teams will be looking for your curiosity and your unique point of view. Our Tech Ops internship provides hands-on, real-world experience. As an intern with United, you are more than a student – you are a member of our team.
We are hiring interns for the summer in the following areas. Based on your qualifications you can be placed in one of the many of the teams that support our operations.
Engineering and Maintenance Programs: You may work with engineers in writing engineering paperwork, analyzing maintenance programs, or assisting in analyzing data from a wide variety of data bases. We recruit for students in mechanical, electrical, aeronautical, and aerospace engineering degree programs as well as other technical related degree programs.
Planning: Optimize maintenance plans to minimize out of service aircraft, maximize capacity utilization, and reduce overall life cycle cost. We recruit students from engineering, mathematics, and business administration degree programs.
Data Analytics: Data mining, discovering trends, creating analysis, assisting with continuous improvements, and giving presentations. We recruit students from degree programs quantitative field like mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, and econometrics. With experience or familiarity with coding in Python and/or R; database querying tools (ex. SQL); visualization tools (ex. Tableau, Spotfire) and manipulating and analyzing complex, high volume, high dimensionality data from various sources to highlight patterns and relationships.
Process Standardization and Strategy: Manage process improvement, process standardization, and evaluating technology solutions. We recruit students from degree programs in computer science, computer or electrical engineering, information management & technology industrial or general engineering information systems.
Airframe Vendor Maintenance: Compare financial and performance data across and within MRO vendors. We recruit students from degree programs from engineering, business logistics, or finance.
Your main responsibilities in this role include the following:
Duties and Responsibilities
Preparation of cost-benefit analyses on project
Review of aircraft maintenance tasks and planning strategies
Development of aircraft maintenance strategies
Extract data from a variety of sources for use in analysis and models to communicate results
Data-based modeling/forecasting
Cross-functional collaboration to achieve desired results
Job Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, industrial, or other related engineering/technical field
Bachelor’s degree in business administration, operations or other business logistics field
Experience developing processes within business operations/processes
Experience working with cost performance, demand forecasting, budgeting
Ability to analyze complex issues, detailed level of project management
Must have a minimum of 12 semester hours in core degree course work
Individual should be a rising junior (at minimum) when internship begins
Summer internships occur end of May/beginning of June – mid/late August
If needed, United will provide air transportation to/from internship location during the term of employment for any scheduled meeting
Work related travel may be required, individuals must be able to travel without any restrictions
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
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