Specialist - Flight Planning Occ

2 weeks ago


Crawley, United Kingdom Virgin Atlantic Full time

Crawley

Permanent

Competitive

11-02-2024

Job Details

**Salary**: Competitive
- Hours: 37.5 per week, Mon - Fri
- Location: Crawley, West Sussex - three days per week
- Contract: Permanent
- Closing Date: 11 February 2024

In a nutshell
- At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.

As a Specialist - Flight Planner at Virgin Atlantic, 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.

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, Airfield NOTAMs and airspace ATC flow restrictions.

Day to day

Some of your key responsibilities in this role will be:

- Creating safe, compliant, cost-efficient Operational Flight Plans (OFP) and Briefing material for all Virgin Atlantic flights world-wide, that are released in compliance with both Company Operations Manuals and UK Air Ops.
- 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.
- Positively connect with all key stakeholders and customers using operational facts, regulations and standard processes and confidently distil complex and sophisticated technical issues into readily understandable information.

About you

Are you a seasoned professional in the world of aviation with a background in an Airline or Flight Planning environment?

Do you have experience as an International Flight Planner, coupled with exposure of North Atlantic/ETOPS planning procedures?
- 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
- Understanding of aviation regulations and compliance requirements related to flight planning.
- Experience in other operational areas of the aviation industry (flight ops, engineering, aircraft weight and balance, airport ops, regulatory bodies or commercial).
- Experience of working in a 24/7 shift environment including OCC or similar.

If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you

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