Fbo Ground Handler

**Vacancy Name**

FBO Ground Handler

**Vacancy No**

VN1137

**Employment Type**

Full-Time

**Division**

Ground

**Work Location**

**Job Details**

**/**Position**:FBO Ground Handler
**/**Location**:Glasgow Airport
**/**Contract**: Fixed Term Contract or Flexible Hours Contract dependant on individual preference
**/**Shift Pattern**:Standard pattern of 4 on 4 off - Mixture of Days and Nights, working 12-hour shifts - with flexibility

Gama Aviation is currently recruiting for FBO Ground Handler’s to join our team in Glasgow on a short-term basis. Dependant on the individual’s preferences and availability, we are offering both Fixed Term and Variable Hours Contracts to support our standard working pattern within the Ground Operations team. We are looking for individual’s who are able to join us at short notice, to deliver an integral role within the Scotland region’s operational and compliance structure, ensuring effective and efficient day-to-day operations of the company’s business activities. The role is responsible, on a shift basis, for the safe ground handling operation of company and third-party aircraft as well as the completion of some Health & Safety checks.

**/**About us**:
Gama Aviation is a hugely diverse business that offers much more than perhaps its name would suggest. Yes, we fly but we also save lives, provide mission critical intelligence, and build systems that deliver decisive advantage.

With operations in the UK, Jersey, Europe and the Middle East, a career with us can offer travel, personal growth opportunities and the ability for long-term progression in a fast paced and dynamic service industry.

**/**Responsibilities**:
**Ground Handling**:

- Comply with the processes, policies and procedures incorporated in the Ground Handling Procedures Manual to handle company and third-party aircraft
- Complete aircraft towing operations
- Complete aircraft refuelling operations including fuel quality checks
- Booking of flight movements in Airops/OCS/Chroma
- External and internal cleaning of aircraft in line with company procedures and Scottish Ambulance Service Infection Control policies
- Maintain required records in relation to ground handling operations
- Assist with the loading/unloading of patients to air ambulance aircraft
- Escort Ambulances on site as required
- Facilitate security escorting of contractors as required
- Act as duty First Aider and Fire Marshall
- All other duties as reasonably requested by line management/supervisors
- Completion of daily Flight report and sending to Airport Accounts
- Apron FOD checks
- All other duties as reasonably requested by line management

**Security**:

- Conducting physical searches of cabin/hold luggage, customers, staff and vehicles
- Conducting physical searches of in-flight supplies
- Body searching (pat-downs) of customers and staff
- Operating high-tech security equipment such as X-Ray machines and metal detectors
- Patrolling by foot or vehicle of premises and periphery
- Checking of staff and visitor passes to ensure authority to enter security areas.
- Greeting guests to ensure they receive the very best service

**/**Skills, Qualifications and Experience required**:

- Experience of working in an airport ramp environment, preferably with experience of towing aircraft and driving HGV type vehicles is desirable
- Excellent communication skills with a range of audiences, including management
- A passion for service delivery with knowledge of working in a highly regulated industry
- An efficient and organised personality
- Self-motivated and willing to learn and self-develop
- Ability to exercise time management to fulfil the role as directed

**/**Security Requirements**:

- Have good general health, reasonable strength and no physical incapacity which would prevent the undertaking of a range of aviation security duties
- Be able to pass a colour blindness test
- With or without vision aids be able to read a UK car registration plate at 23 meters distance
- With or without vision aids be able to read labels on bottles between 30 - 50 cm
- With or without an aid, be able to hear radio and telephone communications, audio signals emitted by security equipment, and an average conversational human voice at a distance of 2.5 metres in a quiet room
- Be free from dependence on alcohol or illegal substances