Load Planner

3 weeks ago


Halifax, Canada Cargojet Airways Ltd. Full time

**Accelerate your career with the most awarded Air Cargo Airline in Canada**
Cargojet is Canada's leading provider of time-sensitive overnight air cargo services and carries over 1,300,000 pounds of cargo each business night. Cargojet operates its network across North America each business night, utilizing a fleet of all-cargo aircraft Cargojet has been awarded one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies as well as being awarded the Shipper’s Choice Award for the best Air Cargo Carrier in Canada for the past number of years. Being part of Cargojet will allow you to become a part of a diverse and vibrant family at the leading edge of the air cargo industry both domestically and internationally. Cargojet team members are dedicated, hardworking, and have a strong sense of leadership and commitment.

**Position: Load Planner (Part-Time & Full-Time, Contract position available)**

**Primary Objective of the Position**:
The successful applicant will develop load plans while ensuring the safe and efficient use of aircraft.

**Essential Position Functions**:

- Ensure accurate and safe load information is presented to flight crew.
- Ensure maximum utilization of space on all flights.
- Communicate all relevant load information to down line stations, Cargo Movement Control & management.
- Audit all load information to ensure 100% accuracy.
- Compile all container and containerized and loose cargo information onto a load plan worksheet.
- Planning of nightly warehouse breakdown.
- Contact customers and retrieve information applicable to nightly volume.
- Assembly of nightly shift package, which contains all pertinent information.
- Advise customers of delays to applicable flights.
- Assist Customer Service and the Station Manager as required.
- Send detailed reports in regard to flight delays or other operational issues.
- Will also be required to assist with breakdown and buildup of cargo
- Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Must be detail oriented.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong mathematical skills.
- Dangerous Goods training required if selected.

**Important to Know**:

- We are committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.
- At Cargojet, we make safety the highest priority. Because of this priority and as we operate in a safety-sensitive environment, we require all employees to abstain from consuming Cannabis, in and outside of the workplace. This is a critical element of our drug and alcohol policy that all employees must comply with at all times.