Crew Compliance Specialist

Job Description

Job Description:

Summary: The Crew Compliance Specialist is responsible to design, support and oversee the implementation of product features that relate to Compliance of Crew Legality rules and regulations at airlines. Rules include Civil Aviation Rules, Company Rules, and Union Rules where applicable. At this time, NAVBLUE’s N-OC (Ops & Crew) is the primary system that implements and tracks compliance to these rules in the NAVBLUE Product suite, but other products might be involved as well.

Main Responsibilities:

The Crew Compliance Specialist (CCS) is part of the Customer Fulfillment team of NAVBLUE Portfolio. This team will manage the domain specific technical support for all NAVBLUE products that contain crew compliance features used by customers.

The CCS provides expertise and technical support on NAVBLUE Products, especially as it relates to Crew Legalities and Compliance. They will be the product expert to answer questions either from customers or from other NAVBLUE entities. The CCS should analyze customers feedback and product occurrences to provide leadership and direction to all development activities. The CCS prioritizes the bug fixes and needed enhancements in the Product and, depending on how the product is developed/maintained, follow-up progress with the relevant development teams and their support infrastructure (both employees and contractors).

The CCS provides operational expertise of the use of the product by our customers. They are responsible for ensuring the right level of verification and validation regarding operational use of the product. The CCS is also accountable for ensuring customer satisfaction following the 4 pillars : safety, security, quality and business.

• Analysis, definition and implementation of various features such as credit calculations that will be used in Payroll. Although our products are not Payroll systems, the applications we manage are responsible for collecting and calculating the base information that will be sent to Payroll systems for downline use. The TPM has a responsibility to understand and manage these features and relationships to ensure the system is useable in an OCC, in tandem with common Payroll systems in the Aviation industry.
  
• Work with Customer Experience team to ensure the Level 3 support regarding product expertise and relying on the L3 support dev team when necessary.
  
• Ensure Customer satisfaction regarding the product is at the expected level.
  
• Define new Product releases content by prioritizing the bug fixes and needed enhancements
  
• Internal testing and use of Product to ensure Verification and Validation activities are at the right level. Run User Acceptance Tests at operational level when needed
  
• Support the deal management (RFP, RFI and other questions that relate to the product specific domain) and delivery teams (Customer onboarding) regarding product expertise.
  
• If needed, act as product owner responsible for occurrence management dealing with the 4 pillars: Safety, Security, Quality and Business impacts.
  
• Ensure smooth and efficient communication with other internal and external stakeholders on the product.
  
• Support Customer Experience in maintaining and reviewing training materials and product documentation (release notes).
  
• Contribute to enhancements of processes and product materials, including but not limited to:
  
  • Customer-Facing Documentation
    
  • Freshdesk help files
    
  • White papers
    
  • Marketing Materials (as needed)
    
• Ability to analyze the impact of a change to existing implementations, FAR, EASA, CAA’s in general, and the cascading effect of those changes, on other aspects of an OCC, or business operations.
  
• Understanding of the overall airline crew operations, to ensure that we can analyze, define and implement various union and company rules.
  
• Participate in the process to oversee and audit customer systems to ensure compliance to requirements and ensure they are standard implementations.
  

Qualified Experience/Skills/Training:

Education:

• Successful completion of a Bachelors degree or diploma in computer science or technology, or technical aviation related domain, such as diplomas leading to OCC leadership jobs (or equivalent)
  

Experience:

• Experience in the aviation industry is important
  
• Proven experience in maintaining project schedules, documentation, communications and meeting deadlines
  
• Experience developing under external industry standards or certifications
  
  • Experience with, and understanding of Civil Aviation crew Regulations is an important baseline. Specific experience and knowledge of FAR regulations in North America is important.
    
• Experience working in a software development environment, driving feature progress and requirements gathering would be an asset
  
• Understanding of the full SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) management, is an asset
  

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities & Competencies:

• Experience in the aviation industry is critical
  
• Must work effectively with others in a team environment
  
• Proactive, problem solver with effective interpersonal and communication skills
  
• Able to effectively communicate, both verbally and written, technical aspects of architecture and integration to management, clients and staff
  
• Ability to manage through a period of growth or transition a definite asset
  
• Able to translate strategic objectives into daily activities and guide and motivate others to deliver
  
• Supplier (including contract) and partners management
  
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
  
  • Candidates with specific experience in IOCs will likely be given preference for this position.
    

Communication Skills (Spoken, Written, Influencing, Proficiency in Other Languages):

• English language proficiency
  
• French an asset but not required
  

Technical Systems Proficiency:

• Experience with any common or in-house Crew Compliance software used in the industry is not required, but would be a strong asset.
  
• Experience in interpreting Crew Compliance regulations in the real world is a strong asset.
  
• Responsible for stack management of RFP responses via tools such as Loopio
  

Perks:

Located in the heart of University of Waterloo’s David Johnston Research + Technology Park, NAVBLUE is close to shops, restaurants, gyms, daycare, and many other amenities, and only 10 minutes away from Hwy 85. The modern design of our suite on the second floor of the Accelerator Centre draws its inspiration from airport terminals, and features bright, open workstations, rather than boxed-in cubicles. As part of our family, you will enjoy:

• Being part of Airbus Network
  
• Flexible hours
  
• Hybrid working environment (3 days in office)
  
• Free parking
  
• Vacation Days (15 - 25)
  
• Professional Development Day
  
• Christmas shut down
  
• Summer core hours
  
• Strong work-life balance
  
• Casual dress code
  
• Competitive group benefits plan
  
• Strong focus on mental health support benefits
  
• 5 Sick Days
  
• 2 Personal Days
  
• RRSP matching program
  
• Life Insurance
  
• Employee stock ownership plan
  
• Maternity & Paternity benefits
  
• Referral program
  
• Rewards and Recognition program
  
• Training and Development Support
  
• Monthly Lunch and Learns
  
• Fitness & Wellness reimbursement
  
• An active social committee
  
• Organized Volunteer Events
  
• Game room, including a flight simulator!
  
• Lunch hour sporting activities (hockey, soccer, volleyball etc.) with a shower on site
  
• Active Inclusion & Diversity Committee
  
• And much more!
  

Not to mention, the aviation industry’s ongoing digital transformation means we must continually innovate and rise to the many challenges faced by our geographically diverse customers. We are always looking for creative ways to improve our processes and technologies to be a leader in the highly competitive aviation market.

Selection and Hiring Commitment

We thank all applicants for applying. Only selected applicants will be contacted.

Navblue is committed to creating an environment and a culture where everyone feels like they belong no matter who they are or where they are from. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, record of offences, and basis of disability or any protected class. Accommodations will be available on request for candidates throughout the entire recruitment and selection process.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
NAVBLUE, Inc.

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Customer Flight/Mission & Ops Support

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