Manager, Interiors Engineering

Company : Alaska Airlines The Team :

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. Role Summary :

This role is responsible for executing on the strategy for Interiors Engineering at Alaska Airlines. As a people leader, the Manager Engineering - Interiors leads and establishes priorities for the team to support the operation as well as execute cabin interior projects & initiatives Key Duties :

• Serves as leader for a group of engineers tasked with managing the interior configurations and mechanical reliability of cabin interiors for the Pacific Northwest's premier airline.
• Leads the team that designs new interiors configurations to meet the needs of a changing consumer market.
• Partners with Marketing, Flight Technical, and Inflight to create optimal configurations for our crews and passengers to ensure a hassle-free experience on our airline.
• Evaluates new and exciting trends in aircraft Interior configurations for application to our fleet.
• Serves as focal point for major upgrades to cabin interiors, from development of concept through first article inspections, including defining the configuration and specifications, and working through the STC.
• Partners with reliability, line maintenance, and base maintenance to ensure on-time arrivals of our customers at their destination.
• Drives the disposition of all OEM (Boeing, Honeywell, etc.) recommendations (SBs, SLs, etc.) for priority incorporation into the fleet to help maintain our outstanding on-time performance and safety record.
• Provides dynamic leadership to process all engineering control (EC) documents (engineering orders, engineering authorizations, fleet campaigns, etc.) to direct the incorporation of modifications, improvements, and disposition of line troubleshooting and shop requests.
• Works hands-on to ensure exceptional quality of workmanship for configuration control and required maintenance actions, and on occasion creates the original document data to meet the special needs of our operation.
• Reviews and approves build specifications and CMM supplements delineating the required maintenance to be accomplished at designated vendor shop overhaul facilities.
• Review applicable federal aviation regulations (FARs) and airworthiness directives (ADs), and ensures prompt approval of resultant generated engineering documentation for 100% compliance.
• Serves as the focal point for timely and effective investigations and analysis, including associated written responses or working presentations for all interiors-related FAA CMO issues.
• Provides Maintenance Control and Engineering Technical Services personnel with troubleshooting assistance for resolution of chronic aircraft interiors issues resulting in a prompt return to revenue service.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills :

Required

Preferred

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations :

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance. Salary Range : $146,400 - $219,600 / year Salary Details :

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. Total Rewards :

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.

For more information about Alaska / Hawaiian / Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits. Airport SIDA Badge Requirements :

Important notification for employees working at an airport or maintenance hangar : Employees will be required to obtain a SIDA badge provided by the airport authority and maintain good standing in order to keep their SIDA badge. Review the document for a comprehensive overview. If an employee does not qualify for a SIDA badge or has their SIDA badge pulled from them, the employee will be terminated.

Regulatory Information :

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 :

(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. FLSA Status : Exempt Employment Type : Full-Time Regular / Temporary : Regular Requisition Type : Management Location : Seattle - Hangar Featured Job : 0 A : : Y - T1 L : : #LI-B