If its seasonal work I take it you'll be doing Ground Dispatch:
Depending on how the company works your duties will be:
*Load Planning
*Weight/Balance (manual/computerised)
*Co-ordination of all ground services
-Cleaners, fuellers, Ramp team, Caterers, Maintenance etc
*Communication between A/C and Ops dept ie delays
*Supervise (de)boarding/Gate Staff
*Parking Stand checks - FOD etc
*Airbridge driving
*Dangerous goods acceptance
*Calculation of ZFW's
*DfT Security paper work - Baggage reconciliation
*Headset during pushback - Final checks sure (all doors shut etc - now mostly done by ramp depts or engineering)
Basically you manage all the aspects of the turnaround procedure within the alloted times - Emphasis on safety..... and then less important things like on time performance,( some airlines like to get these confused)
The new title for it is Turnaround Co-ordinator or i think some company recently called it Airside health and safety manager.
You may just be a paper runner where your company has a centralized load planning dept. The job is no less important though, you will still need the appropriate knowledge to make sure that any decisions made are correct and that information is passed correctly between yourself and the loading team thru to CLP.
Theres prob lots that i've forgotten but if you work for a handling agent they'll expect you to do a whole lot more and put up with a load of s**t that you wont get paid for.
It was a good job though.... I really enjoyed it most of the time!
WTD
Last edited by Who'stheDaddy; 11th March 2004 at 23:19.