Licensed Flight Dispatcher

Emirates; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel benefits

Discounted flights

Healthcare

Life insurance

Job summary

Emirates in Dubai is seeking a skilled Flight Operations Dispatcher to analyse routes, fuel requirements, ATC coordination, and ETOPS planning, ensuring safety, efficiency and regulatory compliance across global networks.

You will collaborate with Ops Control, Skycargo, load control, and flight crew, sign Flight Release, file ATC plans, coordinate slots, monitor flights until touchdown, and develop contingency plans during disruptions.

Qualifications

• GCAA dispatch license and at least one year experience exercising privileges.
• ICAO dispatch license recognised by the GCAA; license verification letter; at least three years documented experience.
• At least five years documented experience as a dispatcher for a major airline if no flight dispatch license exists.
• Proficiency in computerized Flight Planning.
• Proficiency in computerized Flight Watch.

Responsibilities

• Analyze routes and flight altitudes based on economical, meteorological, safety and regulatory factors.
• Select take-off, destination, enroute, ETOPS and alternate airports; conduct ETOPS strategy analyses.
• Calculate take-off/landing performance and regulated weights; liaise with Ops Control, Skycargo and load control.
• Sign Flight Release and file ATC flight plans; ensure briefing documents reach crews on time.
• Negotiate airport/airway slots with authorities to avoid delays.
• Monitor flights until safe touchdown and manage contingencies for weather, tech, or operations issues.

Skills

GCAA license

ICAO dispatch license

Dispatcher experience

Flight Planning software

Flight Watch

Tools

Flight Planning software

Flight Watch

Job description

Job Purpose

Flight Operations is the heartbeat of Emirates aviation excellence, bringing together our talented pilots and dedicated support teams to ensure a seamless flying experience. Our mission is to operate Emirates aircraft with the highest standards of safety and efficiency. We do this by safeguarding flight safety, attracting and developing world‑class talent, navigating complex regulatory requirements, delivering exceptional flight planning, analysing operational performance, assessing airport capabilities, and ensuring excellence in navigation and flight execution. At Flight Operations, we are committed to making every flight a safe, efficient, and well‑orchestrated journey.

Job Outline

• Analyze and determine routes and flight altitudes for each Emirates flight, based on economical (such as Overflight Permission charges), meteorological, safety, legal and comrequirements. This includes, analyzing and 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‑enroute‑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 effect on commercial payload and liaise with Ops Control, EK Skycargo and load control. This includes the assessment and calculation of performance penalties due to meteorological and technical reasons. To minimize commercial impact on Emirates flights. Based on all above, to optimize commercial payload capability for each Emirates flight 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, to safeguard the operation by developing an alternative plan of action. Communicate and liaise with air traffic control, engineering, station staff and flight crew in order to recover the situation. Support flight crew during decision making or trouble shooting 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 Familiarization Flights.

Qualification

Knowledge/Skills

• GCAA dispatch license and at least one year experience in exercising its privileges.

or

• ICAO dispatch license recognised by the GCAA; license verification letter by the issuing authority; at least three years documented experience exercising its privileges.

or

• 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

Safety Sensitive role Yes

Salary & benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax‑free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That's on top of transport benefits, life insurance, and more. Find out what it's like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers

Emirates Group is an international organisation with employees representing more than 170 nationalities, and we welcome applications from across the globe. If you are shortlisted, you will be contacted within six weeks of the advert closing date.