Analyst/Sr Analyst, Block Planning - Strategy and Analysis (Dallas, TX, US)

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08)   
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 62464 

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

• Responsible for representing Operations in the company-wide collaborative effort to build American's
  global schedule including Mainline and Regional flights.
• Block Planning analyzes, plans and forecasts queuing, taxi and flying times for the entire network,
  including the impact of new hub structures, construction, and various operational initiatives. This job is
  also responsible for building and maintaining tools for minimizing forecasting error and operating costs to
  contribute to overall better operational performance.
• This job is for Block Planning, a member of the Operations Strategic Planning and Alignment team within
  the Operations Planning and Performance Division

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.

• Plans and maintains the accuracy and integrity of operational performance parameters through block times for operational robustness
• Identifies potential ways to improve sequencing at airports focused on resource utilization across the network
• Works collaborative cross-functionally to improve operational performance by building reliable schedules together with Network and Operations Planning
• Mines, models, analyzes, and evaluates operational data to identify root cause factors impacting network reliability
• Presents findings and delivers recommendations to the operating groups and senior management
• Provides periodic reports to the operating departments focusing on trends and anomalies
• Seeks out action plans and recommends corrective action to improve operational performance
• Identifies and resolves high priority operations performance issues related to ATC, chronically late flights, station performance, crew parameters, maintenance reliability and scheduling parameters pertaining to block
• Responds to ad hoc data/analysis requests from various departments

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in using data analysis to answer business questions and to assess the added value of recommendations or relevant experience
• Experience with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint and Excel)
• Experience with data retrieval languages (e.g. SQL, SparkSQL, MySQL, NoSQL)
• Experience with reporting and data visualization tools and techniques (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI)

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
• Experience with 1 or more programming languages (e.g. R and Python)
• Experience with Cloud Computing and/or Distributed Computing (e.g. Databricks, Spark, AWS)
• Experience with Microsoft Azure (storage accounts, service principal, Azure Data Factory and active directory)

All you'll need for success

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• High energy, results driven leader who possesses strong oral and written communication skills, along with a collaborative mindset and the ability to be persuasive and influence others
• Skilled in data analysis/modeling in Excel/R/Python to answer business questions and assess operational impacts
• Ability to effectively understand and analyze detailed information
• Strong business acumen; technical learning/innovation management
• Ability to perform both independently and as a team member, handle multiple assignments, complete projects on time, perform under pressure and respond to changing priorities
• Ability to complete assigned projects accurately and within defined deadlines
• Adaptable, comfortable with unstructured work and occasional shifting 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.

Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 62464 

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