Emirates Group

The Network Operations team at Emirates plays a crucial role in ensuring the airline’s flight schedule runs seamlessly. The team focuses on optimising schedules and managing contingencies efficiently to support safe, reliable operations. Join us in keeping the skies clear and flights on time!

The role of the Crew Planning Controller is to manage the complexities of the Resource and Roster Planning functions for one of the company’s most expensive resources: Emirates Flight and Cabin Crew. The job holder is responsible for ensuring that all flights are crewed in strict accordance with Company and GCAA mandatory regulatory requirements, and that crew members are accurately informed of their scheduled duties on a monthly basis.

Job Outline:

• Specific Training Planning
  - Forecast Training Captains availability to ensure training resources are available to undertake training plan. Liaise with Crew planners when producing rosters to understand the training load vs operational requirement due to the nature of the flying of this complex fleet.
  - Develop training plans of active instructors and trainees scheduled for Transition / Upgrade courses in line with recurrent training programs. This is in close coordination with Flight Operation Training Department. The training plan has to be incorporated into the instructors and trainees rosters ensuring the most productive use of this limited resource.
  - Analyse Training rosters on ongoing basis and recommend improvements/changes in the process to increase efficiencies. Make recommendations to management in advance to enable the plan to be adjusted if operationally required.

Experience in an Airline background. 

Operations experience or resource planning allocation and deployment roles. preferred.

Knowledge/skills:

• In depth knowledge of regulatory rules governing the use of crew.
• Knowledge of Crew Planning theory is essential.

At Emirates Group, we're committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you're looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

Join us in this role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers