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Supervisor - Aircraft Inspection

United Airlines
United Airlines Salary
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 4/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/20/2025

Description

Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000 connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.

Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.

Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together.

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.

Key Responsibilities :

Responsible for the technical content and control of the procedures and processes used in the maintenance of aircraft, airframe, and engines. Develops and / or authors procedures to implement new inspections for improving reliability / airworthiness of aircraft, engines, or their components. Evaluates new equipment and merging technologies to meet new or future inspection needs. Identifies opportunities for improving the reliability and / or efficiency of existing procedures and processes. Acts as primary contact / liaison with OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and between Engineering and Inspection organizations for procedural or process issues. Recommends appropriate inspection processes for non-routine damage occurrences, reviews new OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) inspection requirements to ensure accuracy and investigates and recommends inspection alternatives.

  • Provide work direction to align with an operational plan to aircraft inspectors
  • Short term guidance and direction to inspectors as needed
  • Ensures quality control procedures and inspections are carried out in accordance with Federal Air Regulations and the United Airlines Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP)
  • Position is a supervisory member of the Air Carriers Inspection Unit in compliance with and and as such has inspection decision authority and responsibility
  • May support other Air Operators in the performance of maintenance and is responsible to ensure the work performed follows the customers regulatory and maintenance program requirements
  • Participates as a partner with overall Maintenance Team to ensure quality systems are in place and effective.
  • Apply continuous process improvements for reliability and / or efficiency of existing procedures
  • Monitor and control compliance to FAA Approved Required Inspections and other Inspection tasks performed
  • Apply Continuous Process Improvement and implement process, tooling and systems improvement initiatives as appropriate
  • Works with management to collaborate with industry, regulatory and / or governmental agencies to establish policies and procedures governing the future of the industry
  • Supports the evaluation of new equipment and emerging technologies to meet new and future inspection needs.

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications) :

  • Associate's degree or 2 years of relevant work experience
  • 5 years of inspection experience at a large transport aircraft facility
  • FAA Airframe and Powerplant Certificate
  • Knowledge of Federal Airline Regulations (FARs) - especially 121, 145 and 25
  • Experience supervising maintenance or inspection personnel
  • 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
  • What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications) :

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • The base pay range for this role is $124, to $151,

    The base salary range / hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory 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.

    Salary : $124 - $151

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