Responsible for planning and maintaining a secure and efficient flying programme in accordance with regulatory Flight Dispatch requirements.
Responsibilities
- Protected and legal flight planning for all Company flights, including payload estimation, MEL / CDL, ETOPs requirements and operating environment considerations.
- Timely preparation of Crew Briefs including all relevant flight plan filing, weather, Notam and other information as appropriate for safe and timely flight operations.
- Monitoring and updating of the Operations system and Flight Following System.
- Maintaining a weather and NOTAM watch. Alerting of crew to any relevant change.
- Alerting and escalation of any unexpected deviation or loss of tracking of an aircraft through Flight Following.
- Monitoring ATC slot times and exploring reroute options relative to actual and predicted delays in excess of 15 minutes.
- Delaying of flight plans and revision of ATC slots in the event of programme disruption.
- Timely recommendation and adjustment of allocations for the daily aircraft programme to facilitate Regulatory or optimised planning.
- Timely disruption recovery planning and communication to maintain schedule integrity within cost and safety constraints.
- Review and where necessary escalate take-off and landing performance limitations for each flight planned
- Monitor and have ownership of actions on a per flight basis to improve safety and/ or efficiency including total payload planning
Desired Skills & Experience
- Candidates must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree or Post Graduate Diploma in Airline Operations/Airport management.
- Must acquire Flight Dispatch license or Attended initial flight dispatch course.
- Preferably with at least 1 years of experience in an airline, airport or ground handling operational environment.
- Familiar with crew, schedule and engineering limitations and impacts.
- Proficient in both written and spoken English.