Flight Data Controller - Cape Town at Airports Company South Africa

Job Description
Key Performance Output

The successful candidate will be reporting to the Senior Flight Data Controller, and will be responsible but not limited to the following:

• Accurately capture air traffic movement data which include aircraft landing, take-off and parking times.
• Monitor all radio frequencies and escalate non-compliance.
• Source estimated time of arrival/departure of various aircraft operators.
• Update flight information display system (FIDS) data to provide passengers and airport users with up-to-date flight information.
• Reconciliation of Air traffic and Navigation Service logs and Airport Management System movements.
• Capture all movements in the Airport Management System.
• Ensure alignment of airline schedule against seasonal slots.
• Generate and distribute a resource plan for next day operational allocations for the purpose of all stakeholders.
• Notify Airport Operations for Apron parking, check-in counters, boarding gates and changes of any resource.
• Responsible for flight allocation schedules and non-scheduled operations.
• Ensure that all non-scheduled flights are allocated to available resources. 
• Liaise with Air traffic and Navigation Service (ANS) to manage calculated take-off time (CTOT). 
• Manage aircraft changes and take remedial action as and when required. 
• Manage and coordinate airport resources. Notify marshalling department of inbound aircraft. 
• Adhere to statutory regulations, organisational standards, policies and procedures.
• Report non-compliance and implement corrective actions to ensure compliance.
• Analyse Stakeholder needs and identify improvement initiatives. 
• Build, support and maintain healthy, diverse internal and external relationships to ensure achievement of organisational goals.
• Implement remedial actions where required.
• Manage principles to ensure fair utilisation between airlines.

Technical Skills and Experience

The following skills and experience or the equivalent of such will be required:

• Matric is essential.
• Higher Certificate in Logistics / commercial / operational is essential
• 1-2 years Operational experience in Aeronautical documentation is essential
• 1-year Operational experience in stakeholder management is essential.
• MS Office Intermediate level.

Competencies

• Analytical.
• Problem solving 
• Interpersonal relationships.
• Results driven.
• Attention to detail.
• Accuracy.
• Decisive.
• Knowledge of Airport Operations.
• Knowledge of Aviation legislations.
• Statistics.