Emirates Network Operations & Logistics Jobs: Crewing
Manpower Planning analyses the future crew requirements for the airline. It is essential to estimate our requirements for 5 years and plan accordingly to ensure that sufficient resources are in place to support crew training and also, the accommodation requirements for these crew.
Crew Training Planning and Rostering: At Emirates, we believe in continuous training of our Flight Crew to keep them abreast of the latest advancements in the field. It is part of our primary objective of maintaining safe and efficient operations. Our training for Flight Crew includes:
1) Training new recruits who may or may not be type rated
2) Recurrent training for the existing Flight Crew
3) Transition training for pilots who move from one Fleet to another
4) Upgrade training for pilots who have qualified for promotion to Captain.
All this requires an infrastructure and training captains. Crew Rostering is responsible for creating a roster for the crew to fly. Planners convert the planned flying programme and construct what is called a crew "pairing". Both Flight and Cabin Crew are then assigned to these trips or pairings. Crew must be both legal and qualified to operate these pairings. Rosters are issued to crews approximately one week before the end of a month.
Crew Scheduling, or Crew Control take charge of these rosters once they are published and issued to crew. These rosters are likely to undergo many changes due to the dynamic nature of the airline business. Typically we can see things like; additional flights being planned, upgrades of aircraft on certain routes to satisfy the supply and demand curves of the business, aircraft becoming unserviceable resulting in aircraft changes to ensure the schedule is flown and so on. Sickness, family issues and unplanned training also create disruptions to published rosters, which need to be fixed. The work pace can vary from routine to frenetic. At times, the airline operations suffer severe disruptions to its schedules (fog in Dubai can create a massive disruption scenario with over 30 inbound aircraft being diverted from Dubai). This job does involve shift work.
Positions within Network Operations & Logistics include:
• Crew Logistics Coordinator
• Crew Scheduling Specialist (Pre-Ops and Day of Ops)
• Crew Scheduling Officer
• Crew Scheduling Administration
• Roster Planning Specialist
• Roster Planning Officer
• Roster Planning Administration
• Crew Planning Controller
• Manpower Planning Officer
• Crew Leave Planning Coordinator