Chief Pilot WAD Wizz Air Abu Dhabi

Wizz Air is currently looking for a experience Chief Pilot WAD in Zayed International Airport, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Selected candidate will be Nominated Person Flight Operations (NP FLT), reports to the Accountable Manager. This is a Senior full time job. And salary can range between 30000-45000 AED/month.

Responsibilities of Chief Pilot WAD

• Fulfilling the duties of NP Flight Operations as defined by GCAA
• Ensuring the safety, security and regulatory compliance of all flight operations activities including Operations Control, Cabin Operations, Operations Planning, specific approvals & all contracted activities.
• Ensuring that sufficient resources are allocated to the flight operations and raising any issues to the Accountable Manager.
• Creating policy which enables WAZ to conduct safe flight operations under the provisions of its AOC.
• Ensuring the airline has sufficient pilots and cabin crew to support the operation.
• Ensuring that all personnel and activities comply with the Safety Management System procedures and processes, that they are aware of operational risks and takes action to accept or reject according to the risk tolerability matrix.
• Models and promotes a just culture across the Wizz organization that fosters safety practices
• through effective leadership.
• Ensuring timely and adequate closure of non-compliances.
• Liaise with the competent authority on all flight operations matters.
• In conjunction with Chief Cabin Crew, ensuring the safety, security and compliance of cabin
• operations activities including all contracted activities.
• Providing oversight of the activities performed by WAC, ensuring that all flight crew operating & training activities are planned in compliance with the FTL and other relevant regulations & that the required number of flight crew to enable the aircraft to fly the commercial schedule in a productive and cost-efficient manner.
• Providing oversight of the activities performed by WAC, ensuring the safety, compliance &
• efficiency of Operations Control activities.

What you will do more

• In conjunction with Flight Operations Coordinator and Performance Pilot ensuring safe, compliant & secure day-to day operations including on-time performance, project management, oversight of IT implementations and a positive collaboration with Wizz Air’s subsidiaries, defining joint policies and procedures.
• Maintaining continuous oversight of deviations from company standards, ensuring the on-time
• execution of safety and compliance corrective and improvement actions & the systematic risk assessment of flight operations processes.
• Ensuring safe flight operations through the establishment of flight operational policies, standards & procedures considering information coming from Airbus.
• Liaison with the Crew Training Manager ensuring that flight crew training is performed according to the relevant regulations and company operation standards.
• Liaison with the Senior Manager Human Resources on establishing working practices and terms of service affecting those staff.
• Liaison with the Senior Manager Safety, Manager Security and Senior Manager Compliance on safety, security and compliance matters including FDA.
• Assess the future potential risk through an active review of future demands in line with projected operational growth & proactively identify suitable resources, technologies, systems, or processes to mitigate risk.
• Establishing airport and crew operating minima for WAZ operations
• Participating in the Safety Action Board, Weekly Flight Operations meeting, Recruitment Committee and Operation and Procedures group meetings
• Authority to make decisions on tolerability of safety risk in respective functional area
• Representing Wizz Air in relevant industry bodies.
• The daily management of pilots.
• Ensuring that all communication with pilots is appropriate and effective.
• Organizing the flight operations aspects of base visits.
• Development and maintaining a team management style which encourages just culture.
• Leadership, management and development of Flight Operations staff to ensure the effective and timely delivery of their objectives.

Additional Responsibilities

• Ensuring a high standard of discipline within the pilot community.
• Command upgrade plan, including identifying and notifying potential candidates.
• Following up delay codes that are attributed to flight operations.
• Maintaining a database on pilot attrition and create monthly reports.
• Being familiar with pilot recruitment and support the process when appropriate.
• Being familiar with the objectives of crew training department and cooperation with Training.
• Being involved in the annual compensation review for pilots.
• Provision of timely feedback to senior management on compensation related issues raised by the pilot community.
• Close coordination with other departments within operations for the smooth and efficient functioning of the Airline.
• Ensuring the timely availability of properly trained and qualified pilots, including having responsibility for pilot recruitment.
• Maintenance of all crew records with regarding duty periods and flight times duration.
• Ensuring the company Operations Manuals, Parts A, B and C conform to the relevant regulations.
• Ensuring correct accident reporting and maintaining procedures for notifying the required (local) authorities.
• Ensuring that deviations from company standards, incidents and accidents related to Flight.
• Operations, are recorded, analyzed, reported and that corrective action is taken as required.
• Attendance of relevant industry forums and conferences.

Authorities of the function

• Approve or disapprove new routes and aerodrome category assignments.
• Approve changes in OM Part-A, Part-B, Part-C and MEL.
• Assignment of crew members to operate, command, or perform duties on aircraft operated by Wizz Air Abu Dhabi.
• Accept MEL, approving extension of MEL rectification interval extensions (RIE) or delegating this approval to suitably qualified and trained pilots as per the procedure described in the MEL
• preamble.
• Activate CMC.
• Suspend operations within area of scope if deemed reasonable.
• Approve safety improvement actions.
• Make decisions regarding risk tolerability in accordance with the risk tolerability matrix.
• Liaise with all Authorities.
• Approve department’s manuals.
• Liaison with original equipment manufacturers.
• Liaison with other external entities.
• Approve maintenance check flight.

Requirements for Role of Chief Pilot WAD

Requirements for the job role of Chief Pilot WAD at Wizz Air are the following:

• 3-Year University Degree.
• Hold or have held a valid flight crew license and the associated ratings appropriate to the type of operation conducted under the AOC.
• Practical experience and expertise in the application of aviation safety standards and safe operating practices.
• Appropriate management experience, preferably in a comparable organization.
• 5 years of relevant work experience of which at least 2 years should be from the aeronautical industry in an appropriate position.
• Be acceptable to GCAA as a Nominated Person (Flight Operations).

Skills And Knowledge Desired

• Native or similar standard of spoken and written English.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Work well under pressure.
• Applicable UAE/GCAA regulations and associated requirements
• AOC Operations Specification.
• The need for and content of relevant parts of the Operations Manuals
• Familiarity with management systems preferably in aviation.

Pricing and Revenue Manager Wizz Air Abu Dhabi