Flight Manager

Flight Manager

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The Flight Manager is responsible for the overall management of the charter aircraft services for the assigned location ensuring all charter aircraft services are coordinated and scheduled in a timely basis, and sufficient staff is available and ready to depart to the scheduled locations. Ensures all operations are in compliance with federal, state, and organization laws, policies, rules, and regulations.

Primary duties and responsibilities include:

• Ensuring that the charter aircraft services staffing plan is maintained according to contract guidelines. Making final recommendations of new candidates to the Flight Operations Program Director for approval. Reviewing all employment forms to ensure accuracy and thoroughness.
• Ensuring and implementing the policies and procedures for the charter aircraft services throughout the area. Developing training and mentoring opportunities to assist staff in carrying out their work in a safe and efficient manner.
• Providing overall supervisory duties of the Flight Supervisor and Flight Security Officers. Approving scheduling of Flight Security Officers. Developing performance improvement plans for staff as needed. Proposing disciplinary recommendations when Flight Security Officers or Flight Supervisor do not follow the strict policies and procedures for the aircraft charter services. Recommending additional disciplinary action up to and including termination if Flight Security Officers' or Flight Supervisor's performance has not improved.
• Ensuring the continual improvement of assigned employees' knowledge and skills by facilitating training classes and material. Approving refresher courses to ensure assigned employees are knowledgeable on current policies and procedures. Promoting the charter aircraft services area within and outside of the location to attract new employees and retain existing ones.
• Managing the charter aircraft services budget for the assigned location. Providing analyses and recommendations for improvements of the area.
• Ensuring that all reports and investigations of incidents are conducted and thoroughly written in a timely basis. Providing additional investigations if necessary. Maintaining a location incident report record of all incidents no matter how minor.
• Ensuring compliance with federal, state, and organization laws, policies, rules, and regulations.
• Attending outside meetings with organizational, federal, or state representatives.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Minimum requirements include:

• Must meet all the Flight Security Officer qualifications.
• One (1) year of supervisory or leadership experience required.
• Must be a United States citizen residing in the U.S. and able to obtain visas and inoculations required to permit departure from and entry into the US and all scheduled destinations.
• Must possess a valid United States passport.
• Ability to set standards and procedures to establish satisfactory levels of performance, quality, and productivity.
• Ability to coordinate the demands of the charter aircraft services operations.
• Effective personnel interaction, communication skills, and problem-solving techniques.
• Ability to interpret complex written/oral communication, documents, and instructions.
• Ability to make and implement decisions without assistance.
• Ability to effectively train staff.
• Ability to successfully complete all requiring training and certifications.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.