This position description involves coordinating cargo operations and ensuring compliance with safety procedures. Key responsibilities include complying with company procedures, communicating issues to managers, coordinating with customers on load planning, conducting hazardous material and weight checks, distributing flight documents, and supervising aircraft and loading crews to ensure timely arrival and departure of flights. Safety and security are top priorities.
1. POSITION DESCRIPTION
Major Job Accountabilities:
• Comply with all Company Procedures, as outlined in manuals, bulletins, and memos.
• Perform job duties in a timely and efficient manner.
• Follow Company, local and government safety and security policies and procedures.
• Communicate with Station Manager and HDQ Global Control Center on any issues or irregularities that
affect the operation.
• Work to ensure all customers, vendors, and government authorities are aware of the Atlas and Polar arrival
and departure times at your station.
• Ensure that all required equipment and personnel are in their proper position prior to aircraft arrival and
departure at the assigned parking location.
• Coordinate with customers to ensure proper and timely load planning.
• Ensure that all required preload checks are accomplished in order to ensure cargo, ULD integrity and
compliance.
• Coordinate and supervise all cargo- related functions associated with handling the flight, which includes
inspection of ULD’s, checking the weights randomly or on site inspection of pallets being weighed prior to
being loaded onto Atlas Air or Polar Air Cargo aircraft.
• Conduct a thorough HAZMAT check of all outbound cargo.
• Check Accuracy of NOTOC, create if necessary.
• Ensure that the departing crew receives NOTOC in a timely manor so that crewmembers may conduct their
inspection.
• Compute Weight and Balance.
• Receive and reproduce flight plans, weather, NOTAM/INTAMS and any other documents sent to the flight
crews from Dispatch to operate their flight.
• Send and receive aircraft movement and load messages to and from up line and down line stations via
SITA, e-Mail, fax or any other means required to notify all concerned.
• Alert crews for flights and arrange ground transportation for crew between aircraft, operations, and hotels
as required.
• Arrange and order catering for flights adhering to proper catering procedures and levels per Atlas Air and
Polar Air Cargo catering standards as provided in the published manuals.
• Supervise aircraft and loading crews.
• Ensure that the station-marshalling plan is followed, as required.
• Replace and/or revises aircraft manuals and Jeppesens, as required.
• Conduct FOD and Safety audits as required.
• Identify potential problems as they develop and works with the Station Manager, and Customer to reach
resolutions.
• Ensure that all required Atlas or Polar reports are completed and given distributed.
• Follow all required safety and security procedures as dictated by the Ground Security Coordinator (GSC)
and the TSA.