Maintenance Router

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you. 

The Maintenance Router role is responsible for developing solutions to perform operational routing with the demands of the daily operation at Alaska Airlines (AS). As an individual contributor, this role makes recommendations to improve coordination with all NOC and system stakeholders in matters pertaining to the week’s aircraft routing. In addition, maintains strict standards of safety and compliance, and makes recommendations to improve a safe working environment to ensure maintenance operations are aligned with the airline’s overall business strategy and that our fleet remain operational.

• Holds responsibility, authority, and decision-rights to stop the operation or ground aircraft for any safety or compliance related issue and escalate concerns to senior planners or leadership.
• With limited direction from manager, work independently in operational routing and coordinating maintenance activities with operational groups.
• Manages operational aircraft swaps and recovery routing to maintain optimal system performance
• Make recommendations supporting solutions to maintain and optimize operational reliability.
• Create, recommend and execute plans to avoid flight delays and cancellations.
• Analyze aircraft change requests from various stakeholders, balancing operational needs with aircraft requirements.
• Monitor daily flight activity and recommend best course of action for cancellations, upgrades, or downgrades that impact the fewest number of guests with the least negative impact to maintenance and the operation
• Takes initiative to develop solutions to expeditiously facilitate the urgent completion of Airworthiness Directives, Service Bulletins, Fleet Campaign Directives, and Engineering Orders.
• Provide input to assist senior routers in scheduling required aircraft maintenance while swapping aircraft.
• Plans, schedules, and communicates work priorities encompassing work in line aircraft maintenance stations.
• Takes initiative to minimize aircraft downtime and maximizes schedule reliability by planning system-wide aircraft maintenance in response to changes in the operation. 
  • Executes aircraft change requests.
  • Plans ground time night-of maintenance operations.
  • Executes basic routing functions to support maintenance activities with operational groups in response to routing, scheduling, or planning revisions. 
• Communicate routing decisions and priorities across operational groups.
• Works with maintenance planning to balance station workload with capabilities and manpower, to ensure efficient aircraft turnaround.

Required

• 2 years of experience in maintenance planning, aircraft routing, operations, business analytics or aircraft and engine maintenance or related area.
• Bachelor’s degree, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• Fundamental knowledge of airline operations and aircraft maintenance.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively with teams to achieve shared goals.
• Superior analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Good at multi-tasking and able to reprioritize responsibilities as priorities change.
• Demonstrates the ability and passion to continuously look for ways to improve the daily operation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook).
• Effective written and verbal communication and negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to make decisions in a real-time, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to achieve results with minimal guidance.
• Able and willing to work weekends, holidays, and non-standard shifts.
• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Airline industry experience.
• Maintenance planning experience.
• Knowledge of aircraft maintenance procedures and FAA regulations.
• Computer applications experience with TRAX, Visops, Vismaint, Aerostrat, Tableau, Microsoft SQL.
• FAA Airframe and Powerplant certification.

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance. 

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Annual bonus plans
• Generous holiday and paid time off
   

For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement  
It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.   

We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.  

We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”).  All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.   

To implement this policy, we will: 

(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories; 

(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and 

(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories. 

Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions  of VEVRAA. 

Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations 
Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.