American Airlines

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08)

Cities: Dallas - TX

Requisition ID: 79739

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 is part of the Next-Gen Operations Platform and Business team within the Integrated Operations Center division.
• The Next-Gen Operations initiative is a multi-year transformation program focused on modernizing Flight Operations System, decommissioning legacy platforms, and enabling future-ready capabilities across Crew and Operations. The program includes multiple concurrent workstreams—spanning systems implementation, governance, and decommissioning—designed to improve operational efficiency, agility, and resilience.
• As the Project Manager, you will coordinate delivery activities and ensure alignment with overall program governance. You’ll track milestones, manage risks and dependencies, support escalations, and collaborate with the Governance workstream to produce reporting and leadership content. This role is critical to ensuring a smooth and structured transition as legacy systems are retired.

What you'll do

• Manages project activities, conducts reviews, manages risk mitigation, issues, changes control processes, and communicates status to senior executives within the development and business partner organizations
• Provides project teams with expertise, direction, motivation, and encouragement
• Manages project team composed of: local and remote teams/resources and external vendors, demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to changes in roles and responsibilities

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• High School Diploma or GED equivalency
• 1+ year experience in project management

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 3+ years aviation related project experience
• Certified PMP
• A&P License
• Green Belt in Six Sigma

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
• Broad knowledge of aviation planning and technical issues
• Hands-on problem solver
• Ability to lead team members and key stakeholders of the project
• Ability to manage through influence, but without direct management authority
• Ability to use capabilities to influence customers and stakeholders and properly manage divergent expectations

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.

Cities: Dallas - TX

Requisition ID: 79739