Chief Pilot Wad

Date: Apr 5, 2024- Company: Wizz Air Abu Dhabi LLC- Location: Abu Dhabi, AE, P.O. Box 1**WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY**

Wizz Air is a leading European low-cost airline with a fleet of modern and fuel-efficient aircraft. Our mission is to provide affordable and reliable air travel to everyone, everywhere, while minimizing our environmental impact. We are proud to foster a diverse and inclusive team of over 8,000 employees from more than 90 nationalities, who share our values of inclusivity, positivity, dedication, integrity, and sustainability.

As a rapidly expanding airline, we offer exciting career opportunities across a range of functions, from flight operations to engineering, customer experience, finance, and more. We provide extensive training and development opportunities to help our employees grow and succeed in their roles. Joining Wizz Air means joining a team that is passionate about aviation, dedicated to excellence, and committed to making air travel accessible and sustainable for all. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career in the aviation industry, we welcome you to explore our job opportunities and become a part of our success story.

**Chief Pilot WAD**

Based in Abu Dhabi

**Place in the organisation**

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi Chief Pilot, Nominated Person Flight Operations (NP FLT), reports to the Accountable Manager.

**What we offer**:

- Base salary and employee bonus scheme
- Unlimited number of significantly discounted and confirmed seating tickets, giving access to a continuously growing network of destinations
- Relocation package (if applicable) - expense budget, Temporary accommodation, Administration support
- Life insurance
- Instant impact, from any level of the organisation, exposure to C-suite management
- Fast career progression, internal mobility and talent management supported by training opportunities (Wizz Academy and bespoke trainings)
- True international and multi-cultural work environment, passionate, driven and diverse teams

**Responsibilities**:
The NP FLT is responsible to the Accountable Manager for:

- Fulfilling the duties of NP Flight Operations as defined by GCAA
- Ensuring the safety, security and regulatory compliance of all flight operations activities including Operations Control, Cabin Operations, Operations Planning, specific approvals, and all contracted activities.
- Ensuring that sufficient resources are allocated to the flight operations and raising any issues to the Accountable Manager.
- Creating policy which enables WAZ to conduct safe flight operations under the provisions of its AOC.
- Ensuring the airline has sufficient pilots and cabin crew to support the operation.
- Ensuring that all personnel and activities comply with the Safety Management System procedures and processes, that they are aware of operational risks and takes action to accept or reject according to the risk tolerability matrix.
- Models and promotes a just culture across the Wizz organisation that fosters safety practices
- through effective leadership.
- Ensuring timely and adequate closure of non-compliances.
- Liaise with the competent authority on all flight operations matters.
- In conjunction with Chief Cabin Crew, ensuring the safety, security and compliance of cabin
- operations activities including all contracted activities.
- Providing oversight of the activities performed by WAC, ensuring that all flight crew operating, and training activities are planned in compliance with the FTL and other relevant regulations, and that the required number of flight crew to enable the aircraft to fly the commercial schedule in a productive and cost-efficient manner.
- Providing oversight of the activities performed by WAC, ensuring the safety, compliance, and
- efficiency of Operations Control activities.
- In conjunction with Flight Operations Coordinator and Performance Pilot ensuring safe, compliant, and secure day-to day operations including on-time performance, project management, oversight of IT implementations and a positive collaboration with Wizz Air’s subsidiaries, defining joint policies and procedures.
- Maintaining continuous oversight of deviations from company standards, ensuring the on-time
- execution of safety and compliance corrective and improvement actions, and the systematic risk assessment of flight operations processes.
- Ensuring safe flight operations through the establishment of flight operational policies, standards, and procedures considering information coming from Airbus.
- Liaison with the Crew Training Manager ensuring that flight crew training is performed according to the relevant regulations and company operation standards.
- Liaison with the Senior Manager Human Resources on establishing working practices and terms of service affecting those staff.
- Liaison with the Senior Manager Safety, Manager Security and Senior Manager Compliance on safety, security and compliance matters including FDA.
- Assess the future poten