Licensed Flight Dispatcher

Job Purpose

Flight Operations is the heartbeat of Emirates aviation excellence, bringing together our talented pilots and dedicated support team to ensure a seamless flying experience. Our mission is to operate Emirates aircraft with the utmost safety and efficiency by safeguarding flight safety, building and nurturing talent, navigating regulations, crafting exceptional flight plans, analyzing performance, evaluating airports, and mastering navigation. At Flight Operations, we are dedicated to making every flight a safe, efficient, and well orchestrated journey.

Job Description

As a Licensed Flight Dispatcher with Emirates, you will be responsible for exercising operational control and supervision of Emirates flights in accordance with GCAA regulations, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance. You will also serve as a critical link between flight crews, ground operations, and third party service providers to support efficient and coordinated flight operations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and determine routes and flight altitudes for each Emirates flight, based on economical (such as Overflight Permission charges), meteorological, safety, legal and compliance requirements. This includes negotiating User Preferred Routes on a tactical basis with the relevant Air Traffic Control (ATC) organizations.
• Calculate and manage fuel requirements for each Emirates flight, based on economical, meteorological and safety standards.
• Ensure selection of take off, destination, en route, fuel, and Extended Twin Operations (ETOPS) alternate airports for each Emirates flight as per legal and company requirements. Conduct ETOPS diversion and ETP strategy analysis for each ETOPS flight as per air law and company requirements.
• Calculate take off and landing performance as well as regulated weights for each Emirates flight as per legal requirements. Quantify the effect on commercial payload and liaise with Ops Control, EK Skycargo and load control. Assess and calculate performance penalties due to meteorological and technical reasons to minimize commercial impact on Emirates flights and optimize commercial payload capability by adapting route, speed and altitude parameters within the legal framework.
• Collate and sign the Flight Release as per legal and company requirements for each Emirates flight. Prepare and file ATC flight plan for each Emirates flight and ensure that Flight Release, Computer Flight Plan and all briefing documentation is provided to the operating crew in time for briefing at Dubai and all outstations.
• Manage and avoid potential delays by negotiating airport and airway slots with the respective government agencies worldwide.
• Monitor flights until safe touchdown and ensure that these remain inside a safe envelope in regards to weather, technical problems, airport availability, traffic flow and security threats.
• If a flight is in danger of deviating from said safe envelope, safeguard the operation by developing an alternative plan of action. Communicate and liaise with air traffic control, engineering, station staff and flight crew to recover the situation and support flight crew during decision making or troubleshooting processes.
• Support Dispatch Duty Manager during disruption events.
• Periodically perform quality checks on General Handling Agent (GHA) briefing and dispatch services at outstations as part of Route Familiarisation Flights.

Qualifications & Experience

• GCAA dispatch license and at least one year experience exercising its privileges.
• ICAO dispatch license recognised by the GCAA; license verification letter by the issuing authority; at least three years documented experience exercising its privileges.
• At least five years documented experience as a dispatcher for a major airline, in case no flight dispatch license exists or is required in the particular state (e.g. EASA region).
• Proficiency in computerized Flight Planning.
• Proficiency in computerized Flight Watch.

Salary & Benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. Further information on what's it like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website.

Job Details

Role Level: Mid Level
Work Type: Full Time
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Dubai
Company Website:
Job Function: Management
Sector: Airlines and Aviation