Crew Movement

**Job Purpose**:
The incumbent of the role will proactively manage the movement of crew in the planning and operational within strict compliance to the SACAA, other industrial agreements and SAA regulations in collaboration with Flight Operations, Inflight services, Crew Movement and Operations Control Centre. The role supports optimization of the strategic crew plan and crew training whilst providing on-time, well balanced crew schedules, efficient and proactive recovery of the schedule during irregular operations.

The incumbent of this role also supports by supervising and liaising with the crew on a shift basis to ensure the control and maintenance of the Airline schedule. The role is to resolve irregularities in a prompt and effective manner to maintain continued efficiency and smooth movements and service delivery within the Department and furthermore, maintain compliance with APP; APIS; MCL and General Declaration.

**Principal Accountabilities**:

- Demonstrate an understanding of the GOCC strategy and plan relevant to own work outputs
- Implements department strategy within own area of responsibility
- Provide recommendations to support the implementation of the departmental strategy and plan
- Contributes to the budget management and containment of costs
- Applies cost saving initiatives continuously
- Provides recommendations on profitability
- Equitable distribution of the monthly and quarterly workload in order to contain EFP payment according to Budget
- Record and Compile information for monthly Bid packages and publish according to Timeline
- Maintain information relating to Crew Qualifications, Special Requests and Crew Leave
- Well-balanced legal and equitable distribution of flights within the EFP baseline
- Effectively plan Flying Instructors Workload, Route Training and Check Flight
- Planning of productive Crew Rosters and the equitable distribution of the monthly and quarterly workload
- Publication of individual rosters with all flying duties, training duties and duty free days
- Scenario Planning in order to determine status of Crew Qualifications, Roster Flexibility and Optimized solutions
- Reporting, electronical distribution of Flying Roster according to agreement
- Compiling of Roster and Flying Hour Statistics
- Assist with the development of new Scheduling Systems and procedures
- Generate and optimise all Flight deck crew pairings
- Compile all relevant statistics and reports
- Exercise ongoing planning to quantify costs of solutions
- Liaison with other scheduling departments within SAA regarding optimum pairing solutions
- Assist with crew hotel bookings and transport arrangements
- Assist in the regeneration of pairings in the planning and operational window in the event of major disruptions
- Ensure compliance with flight schedule
- Calculating the necessary recurrent training requirements, SREC’s and PREC’s
- Planning efficient and accurate Conversion training courses, within the limitations, stipulated in applicable contractual agreements
- Plan and allocate the above workload to the relevant instructors in conjunction with the Program planners, Fleet Training Captains and Safety and Service Training Managers
- Transferring all above planning into PegaSys (CTR)
- Publish training plans to Program Planners, Heads of training and Safety and Service Training managers
- Receive pairings and prepare documentation for monthly hotel room requirements and transport for cockpit crew - domestic
- Release hotel and transport requirements monthly to suppliers
- Make additional bookings for crew on training and for leisure/business for crew/staff/management on request
- Reconcile and follow up any additional bookings made by crew movement, Durban, Cape Town Offices and fleet maintainers for cockpit crew and cabin crew
- Advise hotels and transport suppliers of any cancellations on request
- Reconcile all transport requirements manually for cockpit and cabin crew
- Utilises resources in area of responsibility/ own area of work in a time and cost-effective manner
- Utilises technology to enhance internal and external customer expectations
- Executes work outputs according to customer requirements
- Adheres to Governance and Risk Management policies, processes and systems
- Delivers on regular, irregular and timeous reporting of information to key stakeholders
- Participates in continuous optimisation programmes, projects and initiatives
- Check the flight validation, unpaired flights and data load reports and rectify any abnormalities
- Contain Crew costs emanating from irregular operations and optimise asset utilisation
- Manage operational changes adequately minimizing impact on Corporate Schedule integrity
- Ensure compliance to MCL, APP and APIS
- Maintain all stakeholder relationships including but not limited to labour, SACAA and foreign regulatory authorities
- Respond to all operational draft from OCC and build new/ amended pairings as required
- Check the flight validati