Crew Planning Coordinator

Location: Warton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £37,000 depending on qualifications and experience.

What you’ll be doing:

• Forward planning/proactive management of possible disruptions to crewing activities e.g. planned maintenance activities or lengthy AOGs.
• Continuous cooperation with HoFO, Operations Manager and Cabin Crew manager.
• Working closely with the wider Operations Team to ensure our operation and service delivery are supported.
• Ability to recommend and implement measures to control costs, increase efficiency and maintain crew legality.
• Maintaining inter-departmental relationships to ensure satisfactory delivery of our company roster strategy.
• Ensure full compliance with industry regulations such as duty and flight time limitation, Fatigue Risk Management and audit requirements.

Your skills and experiences:

• Essential: Have an in-depth working knowledge and experience of current and European working time directive and FTL Regulations.
• Previous experience of roster planning.
• Understanding of different systems used (Leon/Foreflight).

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Air Travel Flight Operations Team:

Shared Services are keen to announce this newly created progression opportunity within Corporate Air Travel Flight Operations department. The Crew Planning Coordinator plays a critical role in ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant operations of all company-operated and chartered aircraft. This position is responsible for creating and maintaining effective rostering plans for the flight operations crews. This role will provide you with the opportunity to develop your career within BAE Systems due to exposure gained across multiple business areas.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 6th January 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.