Specialist - Flight Planning Occ

4 weeks ago

Crawley, United Kingdom Virgin Holidays Full time

**Job Details**:
**Salary**: Competitive

**Hours**: Full Time - 4 on 4 off - Days and Nights

**Location**: Crawley

**Contract**: Permanent

**Closing Date**: Friday 28th April

**In a nutshell**:
At Virgin Atlantic, our purpose is to ensure everyone can take on the world. Our vision is to be the most loved travel company. To achieve both, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to reimagine the world and create thoughtful experiences that feel brilliantly different at every opportunity.

Our people are game changers who see the world differently. Acting as a loud and proud voice for positive change for our people, places, and the planet, they're not afraid to roll up their sleeves to take on the big things while never forgetting the importance of the small details. So, if you're ready to take your career to new heights, read on.

In this exciting opportunity to join our Flight Planning team, you'll be responsible for creating Operational Flight Plans (OFP) and Briefing Documentation for all company flights world-wide, in accordance with company and UK CAA operations manuals. Whilst also supporting our supervisors with quality auditing, procedure development and team technical training.

Based in our Operations Control Centre (OCC) the team play an integral part in the delivery of the Virgin Atlantic flying programme, ensuring flights are planned in a safe, efficient, and regulatory compliant manner. To achieve this, the team must assess a wide range of tactical information including meteorological data, NOTAMs and airspace flow restrictions.

**Day to day**:
Some of your key responsibilities in this role will be:

- Build cost-efficient flight plans and briefing materials for all Virgin Atlantic flights, world-wide, that are released in compliance with both the Company Operations Manuals and UK Air Ops
- Positively connect with all collaborators using operational facts, regulations and standard processes and confidently distil complex and sophisticated technical issues into readily understandable information
- Ensuring that the OFP is delivered to flight crew within agreed timeframes along with all appropriate briefing materials (E.g., NOTAMs, SigWx charts, NAT Tracks, Volcanic Ash, etc). File the FPL with all relevant ANSPs and highlight any significant issues to the flight crew and brief them if required
- When required, provide in-flight support for company aircraft, including re-analysis of fuel critical scenarios, ETOPs alternates, and changes to the route, to aid the safe & efficient continuation of the flight

**About you**:
To perform effectively and enjoy this role, we would require you to have the following skills and experience:

- Operational experience in a Flight Planning environment (North Atlantic and/or ETOPS advantageous)
- Have satisfactorily completed a formal training course as a Flight Planner or Flight Dispatcher
- Knowledge of Flight Planning systems & Crew Briefing Procedures
- Knowledge of aircraft performance capabilities
- Knowledge of aeronautical data and navigation charts

If this sounds like you, and you would like to unlock your potential with us, we would love to hear from you

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