Manager – Flight Planning Standards & Delivery

Job Description:

Salary: Competitive 

Hours: Monday – Friday 9am – 5.30pm

Location: Crawley, West Sussex

Contract: Permanent 

Closing Date: 24th January 2025

At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and its our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, were harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.

In a nutshell

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.

As Flight Planning Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of Duty Managers who manager our 24/7 operation, ensuring that plans are delivered, and amended when required, and the highest standards are upheld.

Day to day

The role of Flight Planning Manager is vital to Virgin Atlantic’s flying programme. Some of the main (and varied) duties you will undertake on a daily basis are:

To effectively manage the Flight Planning team (Duty Managers and Flight Planners), ensuring all policies, procedures and regulatory standards are met.

To deliver the flying programme safely, compliantly and on-time.

Providing leadership across the Flight Planning team, building a culture of high performance and continuous improvement, whilst maintaining team engagement and personal development opportunities.

Working collaboratively with external industry partners, national and international regulatory authorities to ensure practices and systems in the field evolve to match best practice.

Inspiring your team, at all levels, to meet and exceed the standards we set, with the end goal to provide an amazing (and safe) flying experience for our passengers.

About you

Are you a flight planning professional, experienced managing within an operational environment. Are you a positive influence, an excellent decision maker and an inspiration to those working for and with you? If the answer is ‘yes’ and you meet the below criteria, we’d love to hear from you:

Experience of People Managing a technical team
Significant Flight Planning experience, ideally in a long-haul, ETOPS environment
Experience using CAE FPM flight planning system (highly desirable)
Creation and delivery of training material, covering technically complex subject matter
Experience of forming and maintaining working relationships across professional and operational boundaries

Our recipe for leadership

At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? Click here

Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitmentfly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.

Job Ident #: 2509

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en

Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and operates to destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia from its main hub at London–Heathrow, and its secondary hub at Manchester

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Job Info

Location

Crawley , England, United Kingdom

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en