Flight Planning & Navigation Specialist Salary: Excellent Contract Type: Permanent Hours Per Week: 40 Hours Reporting to the Flight Planning & ATC Duty Manager, the Flight Planning & Navigation Specialist will provide flight planning and navigational specialist support to the operational delivery responsibilities of the Flight Planning & ATC department. What will you do in the role? The Flight Planning & Navigation Specialist will keep abreast of matters regarding; regulation relating to flight planning and navigation, up-coming changes to European airspace infrastructure, Air Traffic Flow Management and Network Operations. Using this intelligence, the Flight Planning & Navigation Specialist will feedback to internal customers to ensure our company policies, procedures and training continue to sufficiently support operations in what is a very dynamic operating environment. You will also be responsible for: * Administration of aircraft database in the Flight Planning system * Liaising with Flight Operations to ensure that they are aware of upcoming airspace changes * Monitoring company and airport NOTAMs, relaying any relevant operational information to the wider business. * Maintaining relationships with various stakeholders regarding the use of airspace for Maintenance Check Flights and coordinating any adjustments of routings to account for various planned military exercises. * Ensuring the Flight Planning system route database accurately reflects the agreements with our ANSP's * Keeping up to date with future airspace requirement and ensuring relevant data in the Flight Planning system is prepared in a timely manner for operational use. What are the key skills / experience you'll already have? The successful candidate will be a team player with previous airline experience and extensive knowledge in the subject of flight planning and navigation with strong IT skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills. In addition you will also; * Use your own initiative, with the ability to work expeditiously and accurately, unsupervised, responding to rapidly changing situations quickly and effectively * Strong attention to detail, analytically minded with effective decision-making ability in high pressure situations and inspires and demonstrates consistent leadership skills * Results focused and cost conscious, commercial awareness, resilient approach, with the ability to adapt easily to the demands of the business What can we offer you? We have been recognised as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in the UK on Glassdoor and offer our valued colleagues a range of benefits including: * Competitive salary, with annual pay review * Contributory pension scheme * 29 days holiday entitlement per annum (including Bank Holidays) * 3 x salary life assurance * Generous Discretionary Profit Share Scheme * Colleague discounts on Jet2holidays and Jet2.com holidays and flights * Cycle to Work Scheme * Access to Mental Health First Aiders * Many retail discounts on - travel and leisure, health, and wellbeing, eating out, shopping and lifestyle This is a great opportunity to be part of an exciting, forward-thinking business. We operate scheduled leisure flights to holiday destinations in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands and to European Leisure Cities from our 10 UK bases. Help us to send our all-important customers on holiday with Jet2.com and Jet2holidays