United Airlines Internship | Continuous Improvement Enterprise Optimization CIEO Stat/OR Intern

United Airlines

Job Description

During your summer experience, you will be fully immersed in our collaborative culture built on diversity of thought. Our teams will be looking for your curiosity and your unique point of view. We will look to push your development as an analyst and a leader alike through comprehensive, on-the-job training, leadership development workshops, and personalized summer liaisons to help you navigate your internship. Interns will be given meaningful projects along with the opportunity to interact with and present to leadership.

CIEO interns will work with Analysts/Sr. Analysts using analytical, technical, and consulting skills to complete value-added projects at United Airlines. Work includes leveraging big data to generate practical solutions to complex business problems by developing and validating operations research models and/or applying mathematical and statistical theory and methods. Interns are also expected to gain an understanding of both United as a business and how it generates value for its customers.

Your main responsibilities in this role include the following:

Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply expertise in mathematical modeling, operations research, statistics, neural networks or forecasting areas.




• Work in one of several areas of focus including network planning and scheduling, revenue management, supply chain management, crew planning, operations or cargo.




• Interact with team leader to develop requirements and understand business problem related to a significant research problem of value to United. Formulate and define scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to develop or modify an existing complex model.




• Analyze data sources, integrity and trends to inform the analysis and forecasting work.




• Develop prototype to solve the research problem and evaluate the prototype results

Job Requirements

• Internship requires a 3-month commitment during summer of




• Must be a current master’s or PhD student in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering or a related field




• Knowledge of modeling toolkits such as SAS, Python, R, OPL, CPLEX, VBA




• Ability to work in Unix/Linux platforms with languages including C/C++, Java




• 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 interview required to meet job qualification




• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position





Preferred Qualifications

Job Details

Company: United Airlines

Employment Type: Internship

Job Location: Chicago, IL, USA

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