MD, Maintenance

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

Leading Base Maintenance in Tulsa is one of the most critical operational leadership roles within American Airlines. The Managing Director of Tulsa Base Maintenance is responsible for overseeing the airline's flagship heavy maintenance operation, the world's largest commercial aircraft maintenance base, which serves as the backbone of American's Technical Operations organization. Every decision made at the Tulsa base directly impacts aircraft availability, operational reliability, safety performance, and ultimately the customer experience across the airline's global network.

The operation extends far beyond traditional aircraft maintenance. Tulsa is home to American Airlines Engine Repair & Overhaul (AAERO), where highly specialized teams completely disassemble, inspect, repair, and rebuild aircraft engines. The engine shop represents one of the airline's most strategic capabilities, significantly increasing overhaul capacity while reducing aircraft downtime and strengthening operational resilience. Continued investments in advanced equipment and modernization have positioned the engine operation as an industry-leading center of excellence that supports the reliability of American's fleet.

Over the past several years, American Airlines has demonstrated its long-term commitment to Tulsa through unprecedented capital investment. The airline has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to modernize the campus, including new widebody maintenance hangars, expanded support facilities, upgraded infrastructure, enhanced technology, and significant investments in the engine overhaul operation. These improvements have expanded maintenance capacity, created hundreds of high-skilled technical jobs, and reinforced Tulsa's role as the centerpiece of American's in-house maintenance strategy.

What you'll do

This list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential 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.

• Meets performance/dependability targets (delays, cancellations, Out of Service aircraft) while overseeing workload assignments and providing feedback on the maintenance program
• Sets and administers company, local, state and Federal safety and regulatory compliance requirements while providing resources necessary for a safe and professional work environment
• Identifies and analyzes industry best practices to enhance American Airlines Base Maintenance operations
• Provides guidance on key decisions, such as staffing and process changes, conflict resolution, base maintenance planning and vision, and decisions at Technical Operations level
• Develops mid- and long-term strategic plan in accordance with the Base Maintenance plan
• Develops and controls budget as well as a one- to five-year capital investment plan
• Meets performance goals in the areas of budgets, dependability targets, safety standards and management leadership and development
• Generates marketing leads to identify and create potential contract opportunities
• Facilitates and maintains strong relationships with Union representatives at the local and national levels
• Engages with managers, local union leadership, airport authorities, and other departments to ensure alignment and coordination
• Responsible for the administration and interpretation of the collective bargaining agreement for represented work groups and all company policies for both represented and non-represented team members, providing coaching and counseling as appropriate

All you'll need for success

Minimum…