Your role

The FOO is a specialist role operating in the Operations Control Centre (OCC) at Dublin.

The OCC is the operational hub of the airline, a safety critical multi department and cross functional environment, focused on operational excellence, regulatory compliance, optimum pre planning and disruption management. The OCC is responsible for the management and delivery of the Aer Lingus schedule through cost effective, efficient, flexible, safe and customer driven processes.

Reporting to the Flight Dispatch and ATS Manager, this role is responsible for the provision of safety critical flight planning, communications, weather monitoring, aircraft tracking and operational pre planning across the wider Aer Lingus network for both Long-haul and Short-haul operations on the Irish and UK AOC operations, and for ad-hoc charter flights and ACMI operations associated with each AOC.

The role is responsible for ensuring that all flight plans are in full compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

The FOO team operate on a 24hr shift basis 365 days per year. All FOO’s are trained internally to exacting and high standards and will be a part of a team of specialists in the Flight Planning and Operations Support areas.

 

The Flight Operations Officer should have experience in the following areas:

 

Your qualifications and key criteria