TUI Group | Flight Attendant

TUIfly GmbH is seeking a dedicated and experienced Flight Crew Rostering & Training Team Lead to join its dynamic team. Based with TUIfly GmbH, this pivotal role involves leading the cockpit crew planning and training functions, ensuring efficient and compliant flight operations for the airline.

About the Role

As Flight Crew Rostering & Training Team Lead, you will provide disciplinary and technical leadership for the Cockpit Crew Planning & Training team. Key responsibilities include employee development, resource planning (vacation, part-time schedules), and target setting. You will meticulously monitor the flight program, ensuring all crew deployment plans strictly adhere to flight duty and rest time regulations, legal frameworks, and operational agreements, including implementing Fatigue Risk Management and integrating training into cockpit rosters. Further duties encompass station-specific cockpit personnel planning, team representation, and fostering collaboration with various internal managers and officers. You will prepare evaluations for committees, provide expert input, lead or contribute to projects, and drive proactive communication on planning trends, analytical recommendations for efficiency, and process optimisation. Additionally, you will be responsible for reviewing/updating Crew Planning work instructions/manuals, supporting audits, and developing cross-functional workflows.

TUIfly offers an engaging work environment with attractive remuneration, generous travel benefits, and comprehensive health and wellbeing initiatives. We promote work-life balance through flexible arrangements and support professional growth via the TUI Learning Hub. You will have opportunities to expand your network through international projects and teams, and engage with local charitable and sustainability initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Crew Planning or a comparable operational field.
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking with a quick grasp of complex information.
• Structured, goal-oriented work ethic and excellent organizational skills.
• Proficiency in MS 365 Office applications; Amadeus knowledge is an advantage.
• Initial project work experience, with prior project leadership experience highly desirable.
• Negotiation-level German and good English language skills.
• Willingness to undertake shift work during agreed operational exceptions.
• High emotional intelligence, an empathetic personality, and an open approach to interacting with people.

Requirements

As security is paramount at TUI, all airline personnel undergo comprehensive background checks. Successful candidates for this Flight Crew Rostering role will be required to provide references for the past five years and police certificates from all countries where they have resided for more than six months during that period (costs may apply).