Inflight Crew Planner

Ryanair, over our 40 year history has grown to become Europe's largest airline group connecting more guests across more routes than any other European carrier. We are a fast-paced, ambitious and innovative company, offering exciting career opportunities across aviation, technology, operations and support functions. Now is a fantastic time to join as we look to grow to over 800 aircraft and 300m guests within the next 8 years.

Ryanair are curently recruiting for a Crew Planner to join Europe's Largest Airline Group.

This is an excellent time to join as we look to grow to over 800 aircraft and 300m guests within the next 10 years.

The successfull candidate will be part of a large team based at our Swords, HQ ensuring the rosters are planned in an effective and efficent manner for over 15,000 crew members across our European base network.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Planning / Optimization of Ryanair cabin crew rosters to ensure efficiency and flight coverage is maintained

• Maintain and deliver industry leading roster patterns to ensure that rosters are balanced

• Ensuring that all crew are planned in accordance with flight time limitations and company procedures

• Process and manage crew base transfers, rank changes, contract changes in crew management systems

• Responsibility of roster management for a number of bases

• Ensuring all annual and unpaid leave is planned in an efficient manner taking seasonal capacity into account

• Planning certain aspects of cabin crew training to ensure that crew members remain qualified to conduct their duties

• Working within a team of crew planners and interacting with other key departments within Ryanair

• Using a suite of reports to generate daily / weekly / monthly / annual reports

• Proven numeric, analytical, administrative and computer skills – Excel, Word and Outlook

• Proven ability to meet deadlines, multi task and work calmly under pressure

• Strong work ethic and enthusiasm with a can do attitude

• Organised and motivated individual who is able to work as part of a team and on own initiative with excellent problem solving ability

• Ability to prioritise a heavy workload in a fast paced and changing environment

• Be able to communicate effectively at all levels

• Strong attention to detail

• Previous experience of working with an airline crew planning / rostering system would be desirable

• Competitive salary

• Discounted and unlimited travel to over 250 destinations

• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

• Death in Service Benefit – Up to 2 times of annual basic salary

• 20 Days Annual Leave – Increasing to 22 days after 12 months and 25 days after 3 years of continuous service.

• Option for up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year

• Cycle 2 Work Scheme

• Unrivalled career progression