The Emirates Group Hiring for Resource Planning Specialist – dnata Airport Operations Job at Dubai Full Time

Job Purpose: At dnata we deliver the promises our customers make. We succeed when we have the right people and resources in the right place at the right time to do the job safely. To achieve this, we’re looking for a specialist in Resource Management based in our Dubai headquarters. The successful candidate will support the delivery of standardisation and implementation of resource management frameworks, standards and systems within Airport Operations, working with our global executives, operations leads and resource management community. You should be an experienced Resource Management practitioner in aviation or a similar resource-intensive business, with a track record of bringing Resource Management to life. You should be up-to-date with current trends and technologies in this space. The role involves regular international travel. Key accountabilities – Responsible to develop, analyse and maintain medium and short term plan (staff and equipment) & rosters for the assigned business area in line with business plans, strategy & Service Level Agreement (SLA) – Apply statistical and optimisation methods to develop and interpret scenarios that supports management with decision making and strategic policy formulation to serve customer airlines in an innovative & cost effective manner – Facilitate all the activities relating to the manpower and equipment budgets in the various departments of the business area and overseas Joint Venture Companies, during the annual budget process – Conceptualise, develop and empower line managers on resource deployment rules keeping in view business plans, strategy & specific service level agreements with customer airlines. Transform/model these rules in the resource management system. Influence and interact with process owners and department heads for effective implementation of redesigned rules and processes – Formulate and apply mathematical modelling & statistical analysis and other optimizing methods to develop and interpret What-if scenarios. Recommend the impact on resources and Kep Performance Indicators (KPI) in line with business operating strategy to the business units. Challenge where required to optimise the resource plans for increased efficiencies – Outline optimised master rosters for all operative volume related resources of business based on agreed roster rules & Load factors due seasonal schedule change. Present the optimised roster solution along with full roster Management Information System (MIS) (like roster coverage, under coverage, roster efficiency) to senior management, keeping in view the maximum utilisation of existing resources and ensuring necessary service levels are met within defined roster rules. Highlight areas of variation on resource requirement – Evaluate resource requirement/business cases prepared by department for additional /replacement resources keeping in view the yearly budget Plan, KPIs and other parameters. Recommend the optimum resource requirement in order to obtain Presidential approvals for the business – Train and develop line management personnel on tools and techniques used by resource planning team, with specific reference to planning and allocation of resource to optimize efficiency and productivity – Evaluate feedback from Real Time Control (RTC)/statistics reports on engagement rule variations and utilise information to review and recommend revised engagement standards. This will help in an optimised plan-deliver-review cycle – Prepare and maintain all regular/ad hoc reports pertaining to KPI, short and long term manpower status/requirements, engagement rules and master rosters on a weekly, monthly or annual basis in order for senior management to make informed resource and manpower related decisions – Plan, lead, organise, and facilitate project teams to improve engagement standards for all business units across the business in conjunction with other functions in Business Support

Qualifications & Experience: Experience – Engineering. Planning 5 + years Qualifications – Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) Knowledge/Skills – Experience in the fields related to Resource management and scheduling, including BPR, Method Study, Work Measurement, operations Research. If the experience is in the airline or airport services industry, and/or as Industrial Engineer responsible for Work-Study, Industrial Engineer/Business Process Re-Engineering, experience may be relaxed by two years – IE qualification including development of all relevant techniques. System user training required on INFORM suite – Strong analytical ability and diagnostic and problem solving skills – Effective communication (written and verbal) and negotiation skills – Creativity and lateral thinking – Systematic documentation of project reports/systems and processes – Well versed with the knowledge of standard PC packages namely:- Database (MS-Access) – Spreadsheet (MS-Excel) – Word Processing (MS-Word) – Computer Graphics (MS-PowerPoint) – Project Management (MS-Projects), etc

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