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Manager, Regulatory Compliance

American Airlines
Fort Worth, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 4/16/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/15/2026
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 leads the Regulatory Compliance team within the Safety organization. This team focuses on managing our end-to-end compliance investigation process and delivering innovative, system-wide solutions that enhance our compliance culture by collaborating and partnering with our internal operational customers and external regulatory agencies. This role plays a critical part in driving cross-departmental efforts across a variety of functional areas in support of Safety objectives.

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.
  • Lead a team of regulatory compliance specialists that manage the end-to-end investigation and discovery processes for regulatory correspondences, RMW activities, and manual revisions to identify contributing factors and drive innovative for system-wide solutions
  • Leverages data to identify areas of operational inefficiency within existing business operations to validate non-compliances, seek operational improvements, and ensure effectiveness monitoring
  • Maintains oversight of compliance investigations and official responses to regulatory agencies to ensure company standards are maintained
  • Delivers high-impact presentations to senior leadership on compliance investigative efforts, contributing factors, and system-wide corrective actions
  • Actively collaborate with operational departments regarding investigations, tasks, and operations to define measurable events and design outputs for monitoring compliance and ensuring operational capabilities meet regulatory standards
  • Acts as liaison between the Company and various regulatory agencies such as the FAA, DOT, TSA, and EPA

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience

  • Undergraduate degree in related field, or other equivalent experience/training
  • 5 years of related aviation work experience

Preferred Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience

  • Advanced degree in related field
  • Familiar with the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) including, but not limited to 14 CFR Part 91, Part 121, Part 145, etc.
  • Experience working with contract labor groups strongly preferred

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

  • Dynamic individual with strong leadership skills with the ability to be persuasive and influence others, and adapt to multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Must be energized, results oriented, articulate, and possess strong oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to interact with numerous internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership
  • Strong attention to detail with the ability to make connections across functional areas, and understand dependencies and implications
  • Ability to foster a culture that is diverse and inclusive, aligned with the strategic goals of the organization, team building, team member development, engagement, and accountability
  • Ability to lead and develop team members
  • Ability to maintain a professional demeanor in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment

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.

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