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

• The Manager of the Safety Operations Partners team is responsible for the quality of employee health and ground safety compliance within assigned location.
• The Manager initiates and provides guidance to team members on the implementation of safety and compliance projects and processes within the Airport and Tech Ops operation. The Manager, Safety
• Business Partners interacts operational leaders, union safety representatives, senior managers, executive leadership, and department heads within the assigned location.

What you’ll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced.  Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• The Manager will uphold inclusive leadership values, develop, and care for the team. They will work to influence a positive safety culture at American Airlines and ensure a one team mentality focused on compliance with corporate and governmental safety standards and regulations.
• Manages and supports the team in implementation and customer adoption of safety programs, and transition those to business ownership to reduce team member injuries and aircraft ground damage.
• Demonstrates safety leadership attributes promoting a strong safety culture through effective partnership with the operation.
• Mentor leaders on industry best safe work practices and hazard reporting and safety risk management.
• Ensure the quality of learning investigations for accidents, incidents, instances of non-compliances and nearmisses, provide insights into the root causes and contributing factors, as well as recommendations to prevent reoccurrence.
• Ensure that safety team participates in investigations, JSC/APC meetings, and other Safety related meetings/events.
• Communicates with team and business partners on the status of significant safety issues.
• Ensures consistent reporting product output across the team’s area of expertise
• Represents American Airlines at industry meetings and exchanges industry safety information
• Maintains liaison with the FM, OSHA, and other local and federal entities regarding issues relating to ground safety
• Ensure prompt response to ground safety issues through safety hotline calls, employee correspondence, and recommendations.
• Performs any additional duties and responsibilities, as assigned, to achieve departmental and company safety objectives.
• Provides leadership and oversight to Safety Business Partners who are stationed in multiple locations
• Travel required – up to 50% of the time.

All you’ll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor degree in Safety, engineering, aviation, or equivalent work experience/training
• 5 years’ experience in the airline industry with at least 2 years safety program management

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Extensive knowledge of applicable regulations and company policies and procedures
• Experience interfacing with FAA, government agencies, labor, and inter-department communications
• Aircraft accident and employee injury investigation training and experience
• Training applicable to requirements of position

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.