TULSA, Okla. (OBV) – American Airlines is deepening its investment in Oklahoma, creating hundreds of new jobs at its Tulsa Maintenance Base.
Officials with American Airlines announced the addition of 321 new jobs at its maintenance base in Tulsa on Monday.
Airline officials announced a total of 500 new aviation maintenance jobs and additional lines of heavy maintenance work at AA maintenance bases in Tulsa, Charlotte, N.C., and Pittsburgh, Pa. The new positions will enable additional heavy maintenance check work at those locations, according to American Airlines officials.
“American is excited to grow our talented Technical Operations workforce with more high-paying, skilled aviation maintenance positions,” said Greg Emerson, American’s Vice President of Base Maintenance and Facilities. “It’s an opportunity to grow our maintenance capacity and capabilities in the near-term and preserve them over the long run by continuing to build our pipeline of future maintenance team members — which is important work American has been doing for some time.”
Airline personnel attributed the additional Tulsa to a $22 million grant awarded by the State of Oklahoma’s Business Expansion Incentive Program in 2023. The grant is helping American grow its engine repair and overhaul facility.
“We’re very grateful to the State of Oklahoma Department of Commerce for this grant,” Emerson said. “As a direct result of this funding in 2023, we’ve already added hundreds of high-paying, skilled new jobs to the Tulsa economy and continue to make enhancements to our world-class maintenance facility.”
The 321 new openings at the Tulsa location include 227 aviation maintenance technician (AMT) positions. Charlotte has 133 new openings, including 122 AMTs, and Pittsburgh has 44 new openings, including 40 AMTs.
American’s Tulsa maintenance base is known as Tech Ops – Tulsa. It’s located on 246 acres of land at the Tulsa International Airport and includes approximately 3.3 million square feet of building space, six hangars with 24 aircraft bays and 22 support facility buildings.
Nearly 5,000 team members are employed at the base and around 400 of the airline’s aircraft visit the facility annually.
Individuals interested in applying for one of the new openings in Tulsa can go to the jobs section of American Airlines’ website.
