Workforce and Resource Planner

Job summary

Create and maintain workforce schedules, forecast staffing needs, respond to absences and schedule changes, and ensure adequate staffing for airline station operations. Improve retention, productivity, and quality through employee support, procedures, training, recruitment, and career development.

Job details

The role of the Workforce Planner (WFP) is to standardize the station’s planning procedures, and to create and implement solutions for the station workforce. The WFP will be responsible for any scheduling, planning and/or workforce-related duties. Create and plan manpower: Create a manpower schedule using all the available tools. Check flight loads provided by the airlines. Identify and track trends and adapt as needed by identifying busy blocks during the day, increased traffic on specific days of the week and busy periods throughout the year. Maintain daily manpower: Maintain the live schedule daily and update any irregularities or changes. Approve and update any shift trades. Update absences or sick calls. Assist in covering and finding manpower for any sick calls, terminations, leaves of absence as needed. Monitor and maintain employee retention: Identify areas in need of improvement regarding staff morale and culture while still enforcing company policies. Improve employees’ work-life balance by taking into consideration employees' preferences and day off requests. Improve productivity and quality outputs: Create and implement policies and procedures that will increase productivity and quality. Identify areas of how management can support with better SOPs, training and/or coaching. Make recommendations to deliver strategic value through talent: Provide and look for skills that employees have that can help grow our business. Create a career path within the company to aid in employee retention. Forecast staffing supply and demand: Review current and future workforce requirements and identify any gaps. Recommend a business plan to ensure we have skilled employees filling important roles accordingly. Recruit talent and manage training: Assist in the recruitment process of skilled agents, filling role requirements as needed. Arrange and schedule training with the certified trainers. Assist in the development of employee skills through our training program. Administration Duties: Have an excellent working knowledge of computers and their programs, including OneDrive, Microsoft Office, Teams etc. and be able to create professional forms, documents, presentations, and emails efficiently using these platforms. Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: Secondary School (preferred) Microsoft Office: 1 year (preferred) Schedule management: 1 year (preferred)

What you’ll do

Create and maintain workforce schedules, forecast staffing needs, respond to absences and schedule changes, and ensure adequate staffing for airline station operations. Improve retention, productivity, and quality through employee support, procedures, training, recruitment, and career development.

Requirements

Secondary school education and one year of Microsoft Office experience are preferred. One year of schedule management experience is preferred; the role also calls for computer proficiency and the ability to create professional documents, forms, presentations, and emails.

Listed skills

• Microsoft Teams · Preferred
• Recruitment · Preferred
• Microsoft Office · Preferred
• OneDrive · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Workforce Planning
• Manpower Scheduling
• Schedule Management
• Staffing Forecasting
• Flight Load Analysis
• Trend Analysis
• Employee Retention
• Staff Morale
• Productivity Improvement
• Quality Management
• Standard Operating Procedures
• Recruitment
• Training Coordination
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Teams
• OneDrive

Job areas

• Human Resources
• Logistics
• Transportation
• Administrative
• Management & Leadership

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