Flight Operations Engineer

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At Vueling, we love things to happen. We always do our best to go one step further and do it better. We invite our people to celebrate their unique strengths, work as a team to overcome challenges and achieve their goals for the greater good.

Our team is made of great professionals. Great and passionate people who collaborate, support and complement each other's skills.

We are one of Europe's leading low-cost airlines, with special relevance in the Spanish domestic market, as well as in France and Italy.

Job Purpose

Flight Operations Engineer in charge of support to flight operations computations and studies. Main areas of expertise include aircraft performance, weight and balance, oper-ation techniccal manuals and specially new route feasibility studies & flight planning support.

Main Accountabilities

• Performing studies on the entire network operated by the company to ensure that any modification affecting airport characteristics, procedures, or navaids, are accurately updated in the documentation loaded into the EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) and the aircraft's navigation database.
• Continuous alignment and collaboration with dispatchers and technical pilots to assess the specificities of airports and routes and provide operational support.
• Ongoing cross checking with the company's quality and safety specialists to ensure that deliverables are safe and reliable within approved processes.
• Participate in one of the multiple transformation projects managed by the department, contributing positively to the company's objectives, such as improving operational safety, increasing sustainability and reducing the workload of crews.
• Resolving complex engineering problems and contacting suppliers. Correcting any unforeseen technical events in the flight procedure, constantly verifying with the manufacturer or involved supplier the effectiveness of the correction, and properly monitoring the steps of change management (risk analysis, design defense before Quality and Safety, approval, etc.) to ensure it is perfectly implemented.
  
• Being the person who defends internal and external audits with AESA and IOSA for the defense of all procedures approved and implemented in the area of competence and flight.

Main Responsibilities - Tasks

• Additionally to the previously listed accountabilities and functions, the candidate may also have the opportunity to develop in aspects such as:

• Calculates aircraft weight and balance information according to the company’s flight operations guidelines established by the Standards Manager.
• Collaborates in aircraft performance computation, runway data, airports characteristics and contingency procedures, and/or weight and balance computation.
• Updates aircraft operation technical Manuals (WBM, FCOM, AFM, QRH and MEL) and associated documents (AD, OEB; OIT, FOT, etc.).
• Provides support for the tasks related with the EFB that are developed in the Technical Office.

Main Relationships

• Dispatchers
• Technical pilots
• Network
• Operations

Education

Aeronautical Engineering Degree (required)

Experience

3 years in a similar role.

Competencies

• Communication
• High proactivity & “Hands-on”
• Deliver focused
• Planning
• Continuous improvement oriented attitude.

Languages

• English: C1 (required)
• Spanish: C1 (required)

Other

Any Airbus flight operations related training (desired)

Location

Viladecans - Barcelona

Level

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