Intern - Operations Research (Summer 2025)
Chicago, Illinois
Employer: United Airlines, Inc.
Industry: Intern - MBA & Undergrad
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Description
Early careers take off with United! We've been recognized as both a top employer for Gen Z talent by Handshake and a top 100 internship program by Yellow and Way Up. Interns at United enjoy a wealth of benefits, including a robust mentorship program, exclusive travel privileges, and engaging social events to help foster a vibrant and connected community of early career professionals. Our program is designed to empower you with the skills and connections necessary to launch a successful career. We hope you join us at United, where your contributions will take flight and your career journey will soar.
The Analytics and Innovation (Ai) team at United Airlines works to innovate, transform, and solve complex business problems resulting in significant and measurable enterprise impact through the application of deep cross-functional business expertise and advanced analytics. We work with business and technology partners across the enterprise (e.g. Airport Operations, Contact Centers, Network Planning, Revenue Management, Digital Products, Human Resources, etc.) to influence strategic decisions, enterprise strategy, business process, and to help connect the dots across the enterprise. We aim to be an organization with whom and within everyone loves to work!
Operations Research experts within Ai partner with business areas to generate practical solutions to complex problems by leveraging big data, explore new business alternatives and drive improvement in business decisions through innovations, research & development, and product knowledge. The team integrates mathematical modeling and analysis to critical financial, operational and/or strategic planning decisions.
Interns are fully immersed in our culture and given meaningful project work. Interns leverage their skills to support value-added projects across many of United's departments.
Qualifications
Required
Positions are based in Chicago, IL
United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.
Early careers take off with United! We've been recognized as both a top employer for Gen Z talent by Handshake and a top 100 internship program by Yellow and Way Up. Interns at United enjoy a wealth of benefits, including a robust mentorship program, exclusive travel privileges, and engaging social events to help foster a vibrant and connected community of early career professionals. Our program is designed to empower you with the skills and connections necessary to launch a successful career. We hope you join us at United, where your contributions will take flight and your career journey will soar.
The Analytics and Innovation (Ai) team at United Airlines works to innovate, transform, and solve complex business problems resulting in significant and measurable enterprise impact through the application of deep cross-functional business expertise and advanced analytics. We work with business and technology partners across the enterprise (e.g. Airport Operations, Contact Centers, Network Planning, Revenue Management, Digital Products, Human Resources, etc.) to influence strategic decisions, enterprise strategy, business process, and to help connect the dots across the enterprise. We aim to be an organization with whom and within everyone loves to work!
Operations Research experts within Ai partner with business areas to generate practical solutions to complex problems by leveraging big data, explore new business alternatives and drive improvement in business decisions through innovations, research & development, and product knowledge. The team integrates mathematical modeling and analysis to critical financial, operational and/or strategic planning decisions.
Interns are fully immersed in our culture and given meaningful project work. Interns leverage their skills to support value-added projects across many of United's departments.
Qualifications
Required
- Must be a current master's or PhD student in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering or a related field (Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering or a related field) with at least one semester left after the summer ends
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Knowledge of modeling toolkits such as SAS, Python, R, OPL, CPLEX, VBA, or similar
- Ability to work in Unix/Linux platforms with languages including C/C++, Java, Python, or similar
- Creativity and innovative thinking in developing solutions to complex business problems
- Ability to document and present technical information from the business problem definition to the implementation stage in a way that effectively addresses varying levels of management and different audiences
- Strong interpersonal skills with a focus on teamwork
- Successful completion of the interview is required to meet job qualification
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
Positions are based in Chicago, IL
United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.
Created: 2024-09-05
Reference: WHQ00023949
Country: United States
State: Illinois
City: Chicago
ZIP: 60018
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