About United

There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce.

Corporate Safety

As an airline, safety is our most important principle. And our Corporate Safety team is responsible for making sure safety is top of mind in every action we take. From conducting flight safety investigations and educating pilots on potential safety threats to implementing medical programs and helping prevent employee injuries, our team is instrumental in running a safe and successful airline for our customers and employees.

We implement proactive safety programs to try and reduce workplace injuries. However, when an injury occurs, Corporate Safety also leads a robust workers compensation program and helps employees dealing with lost time to injury. Corporate Safety is also responsible for running United’s Safety Management System, Safety Promotion Program, Flight Safety Investigation team and Emergency Response and Business Continuity program.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

United’s Corporate Medical department is responsible for providing public health leadership, mentorship, and consultation to ensure the health and safety of United’s employees and customers. United’s Corporate Medical Director proactively builds, implements, drives, and leads an agenda and an organization that supports policies and activities crafted to raise awareness about public health issues and future public health risks that could impact the enterprise.

Additional responsibilities include:

Medical Program Oversight & Risk Management

• Oversight of United’s Employee Assistance Program and HIMS program and provides medical expertise to support United’s Drug Abatement Program.
• Establish, maintain, and advise the basic activities in vital statistics, communicable disease control, laboratory services, nursing services, nutrition, public health education, and any other applicable services.
• Create and recommend policies to prevent LTIs and achieve Corporate Safety goals to efficiently satisfy the delivery of communicable disease.
• Perform or supervise preventive measures for contagious diseases of public health concern.
• Deliver effective medical management and consultation services for arbitrations, policy and grievance review, and CBA language development.
• Offer skilled consultation covering medical arbitration, reportable contagious disease notification, immunization review, Special Circumstance policy, medication/safety review, In-flight emergency kits; medical policy development, international travel review.
• Aviation Medical consultant regarding Pilot Health including providing expertise in pilot Fitness for Duty requests, supplying mentorship for pilots returning to work and delivering effective medical consultation regarding safety issues.
• Support the broader Corporate Safety organization with developing and implementing strategies and policies related to improving worker safety and reducing workplace injuries.

Internal Collaboration

• Collaboratively partner with and provide medical expertise and opinions to all Business Partners within United, including Operational groups and Legal and Labor Relations.
• Close collaboration with United’s Human Resources organization which is responsible for driving the total wellness program for United employees.
• Provide medical consultation regarding high level medical, legal and Labor Relations issues enterprise wide.

External Relationships and Industry Representation

• Manage relationships and connections with domestic and global health partners including the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control to help United establish processes and actions to proactively mitigate potential risk to local and flight/inflight coworkers encountered during new station start-ups and theater outbreaks.
• Engage and collaborate with the medical authorities within the aviation community by actively participating with organizations including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Airlines for America (A4A) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
• Establish and maintain understanding and collaboration with local and global organizations toward effective community health.
• Serve as a United representative for medical committee issues at A4A/IATA and Aerospace Medical Association, collaborate with PR for medical communication outreach
• Work with the CDC and company policy, medical consultant services towards safety for FAA/DOT Issues, Emergency Operations Center consultation.

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

A minimum of 12 years of combined experience in the following:

• Medical Doctor, Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner designation required
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience aligning medical expertise with business and operational objectives
• 5+ years of experience in the design, implementation, and administration of corporate medical programs
• Proven experience leading and developing teams

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• MBA preferred
• Previous experience with aviation, specifically Occupational Aviation Medicine
• Current or previous AME experience
• AMA Membership