Trainee Line Disruption Planner

Air India Limited; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Air India Limited seeks an experienced training professional to oversee the execution of pilot flight trainings, including regulatory checks, gap training, and standardization processes. The role requires coordinating with rostering teams, maintaining training trackers, and ensuring timely closure of crew queries while adhering to DGCA rules.

Qualified candidates will have a Bachelor’s or higher in a related field, familiarity with CAE Crew Manager, and 4+ years in airline operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or MBA/PGDM or Master’s degree or DGCA approved aviation course (min 3 years).
• DGCA regulations familiarity desirable.
• Experience in airline ops or crew rostering is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Execute pilot flight trainings and regulatory trainings as per company requirements.
• Maintain trackers and conduct regular audits for training KPIs.
• Coordinate with rostering and Day Ops to align crew training with rosters.
• Ensure compliance with DGCA, CAR, OMA, OMD, DPM requirements.
• Close crew queries within SNOW SLAs and escalate issues timely.
• Liaise with internal departments to automate rostering workflows where possible.
• Support LTC, ALC, PIC route checks and standardization activities.

Skills

Airline operations

Interpersonal & planning

Team leadership & decision making

Leadership & problem solving

Communication & presentation

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree / MBA / PGDM / DGCA aviation course

Tools

CAE Crew Manager

Job description

Job Description:

A. Job Purpose

Execution of flight trainings of Pilots including Gap In Flying, Critical airfields, Corrective training, ALC, along with management and maintenance of all flight training requirements.

B. Key Accountabilities

• Ensure all flights training is executed as per regulatory and company requirements and should also be executed well within the stipulated time for all Cockpit Crew.
• Execution of flight trainings for regulatory training and checks, Gap in flying, maintaining recency and upgrades as per the footprint in OMD.
• Daily Audit check for crew planned for line trainings to ensuring that planned training is not in any violation, same to be share with reporting Manager on daily basis.
• Maintaining trackers by conducting regular audits.
• Coordination with rostering team about changes in pilot roster due Day ops changes to ensure training targets are met.
• Being updated with Company policies/CAR/OMA/OMD/DPM requirements for ensuring compliance.
• Ensure timely and correct closure of crew queries as per SNOW SLAs.
• Ensure execution of PIC route check, SLF, critical airfields, ALC, LTC standardization checks.
• Ensure Line Release of crew as per KPIs.
• Ensuring timely escalation of any issues impacting training KPIs to reporting manager.
• Coordinate with Roster Planning and Day Ops team to ensure all rostered crew is up to date with training as per regulatory requirements.
• Ensure line training comply with the legal limitation as laid down by regulatory authorities.
• Any other additional responsibility could be assigned to the role holder from time to time as a standalone project or regular work. The same would be suitably represented in the Primary responsibilities and agreed between the incumbent, reporting officer and HR.

C. Skills Required for the role

• Airline Operational Expertise Strategic Outlook
• Strong Interpersonal Skills Coordination & Planning Skills
• Team Management Skills Decision making Skills
• Leadership Skills Problem Solving Skills
• Critical Thinker Effective communication skills
• Presentation skills

D. Key Interfaces

Internal Interfaces

• Crew Departments • Coordinate with Flight Ops/Day Ops/Training admin/Pilot admin Team to align on crew trainings.
• Digital & Technology Department • Needs to liaise with the IT team to leverage technological resources effectively, streamline rostering workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance decision-making through data-driven insights.

External Interfaces

• DGCA Representatives • For coordination with DGCA FOIs for execution of LTC standardization checks, ALC.

E. Educational and Experience Requirements

• Minimum Education Requirement • Bachelor’s degree or/with MBA or PGDM and/or any Master`s degree and/or any DGCA approved aviation related course of minimum three years of duration.
• Experience • 0-2 years of experience in crew rostering
• Well versed with DGCA rules and regulations pertaining to pilot crew FDTL & Training requirement.
• Must have experience of handling complex situations.
• 4+ years of experience in an airline operational environment.
• Familiarity with CAE Crew Manager or similar crew management systems