Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

• This role, part of the Next-Gen Operations team within the IOC, serves as the compliance champion for innovative flight operations initiatives. You will lead risk assessments to ensure new system-of-record tools meet FAA and regulatory standards, paving the way for successful certification and adoption. By partnering with internal teams and regulators, you’ll validate compliance, manage FAA correspondence, and provide subject matter expertise that accelerates approval of transformative technologies.

What you'll do

• Leads root-cause compliance investigations of global, systemic issues and help business units determin appropriate corrective actions and identfies system contributing factors of compliance escapes.
• Leverages data to identify and assess areas of operational inefficiency within existing business operations to validate compliance findings, seek operational improvements, and assure monitoring for success
• Ensures FAA correspondence meets established standards
• Tracks the completion of correspondence corrective actions
• Acts as liaison with operating departments and the FAA or other regulatory agencies to manage correspondence
• Provides subject matter expertise on regulatory issues for internal departments
• Provides direct interface with FAA and other regulators involving correspondence and regulatory matters
• Maintains correspondence in ETQ database for tracking and trending purposes
• Risk assesses events associated with correspondence
• May be required to create analysis reports
• Participates in various working group(s)
• Provides support to AA Legal when necessary

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years experience in regulatory environment or educational equivalent
• Broad operational and/or airworthiness experience/knowledge
• Extensive knowledge of Federal Aviation Regulations

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• ​Aircraft Maintenance and/or Operations experience/knowledge
• Advanced degree
• Certification or equivalent expereience/training in "Just Culture", root-cause investigations and Safety Management Systems (SMS)

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Ability to work in a team environment
• Must work well with deadlines
• Effective organization and planning skills
• Ability to interact with various levels of management and regulatory agencies
• Excellent interpersonal and written skills
• Proficient in MS Office to include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Excellent analytical skills, with ability to prepare reports based on analytics
• Strong attention to detail with ability to make connections across functional areas and understand dependencies and implications
• Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and work independently, complete projects on time, perform under pressure, and respond to changing priorities.
  

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.