Air Operations Scheduler — Long-Range & Mission Planning

Goldbelt, Inc.

Whiteman Afb (MO)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 110,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Goldbelt, Inc. is seeking a Flight Scheduler to provide long-range scheduling support for aircrew operations at Whiteman AFB.

The role involves coordinating with operational units to align mission planning with organizational goals, maintaining schedules for aircrew and support staff, and ensuring resource optimization while adhering to safety and compliance standards. The candidate will update data in Patriot Excalibur (PEX) and other systems, train personnel on the scheduling system, and

Qualifications

Must possess a Secret Clearance or previously held Secret Clearance which has expired (not revoked).
Minimum of two years’ experience as a squadron aircrew scheduler.
Minimum of two years’ experience with PEX or a similar scheduling program.
Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain a comprehensive long-range scheduling system including, but not limited to, the prioritization of tankers and agile combat employment operations.
Collaborate with operational units to align long-term mission planning with organizational objectives.
Ensure optimization of resources and strategic alignment with broader tenant units (such as AFRC and ANG units) and AFGSC goals.
Analyze historical mission data to enhance future planning.
Generate detailed reports for Operations Group leadership to inform decision-making.
Provide training to Operational Group personnel on utilizing the long-range scheduling system.
Facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure the Operational Group gains proficiency in leveraging the new capabilities.
Build long and short-range schedules to ensure full coverage of all aircrew, instructor, evaluator, support personnel, and supervisor positions.
Coordinate with senior squadron, group, and/or wing leadership on a daily and weekly basis to facilitate flying operations.
Keep track when crewmembers will be on leave, temporary duty, have scheduled medical appointments, or other scheduling commitments, and deconflict crewmember schedules and work with flight leadership to ensure crews are available to meet assigned sortie taskings.
Track daily flight/ground/academic training requirements and accomplishments to facilitate accurate flight scheduling as directed by the DO and/or shop chiefs.
Update data in Patriot Excalibur (PEX) (or future equivalent systems to PEX) and locally-developed database systems as required.
To the maximum extent possible, schedule aircrews based on experience to mitigate Operational Risk Management.
Report updates to squadron, group, and wing leadership.
Facilitate last-minute schedule changes to ensure full coverage by working with the current mission commander/operations supervisor (or equivalent) and flight responsible for the shift that is not fully manned.
Obtain aircraft and equipment availability data from maintenance and schedule crewmembers for training, exercises, simulators, and operations, as required.
Publish/post scheduling data for unit long/short-range ground/academic, flying, and simulator training event schedules on PEX, or other computer database systems.
Comply with operations group and scheduling chiefs’ locally-developed guidance when building the schedule.
Determine flight, ground, and simulator schedule requirements for upgrade, initial qualification, requalification, transition, currency, and continuation training based on syllabus requirements, student progression, weather, and daily equipment/training range availability.
Perform daily updates of scheduling data to compensate for changing conditions and training completion rates.
Coordinate with Wing Scheduling, outside agencies, exercise participants, and higher headquarters (i.e., RED FLAG, GREEN FLAG, Weapons School support) for reporting and to facilitate exercise and special event schedule coordination.
Provide inputs to Wing Scheduling and update daily Supervisor of Flying, Top 3, and schedules.
Correlate sortie length and airspace requirements with syllabus requirements.
Attend meetings, as required.