Crew Planner

About Sun Country Airlines

We're not your average airline. We're agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.

With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline, and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlines provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a great and growing company, as a Crew Scheduler you'll enjoy these benefits and more:

• Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
• PPO and high deductible health plans
• Health savings accounts (HSA and FSA)
• Dependent Care
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Compensation:

Pay range: $48,000 - $62,000 USD annually. This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.

Crew Scheduler Overview:

Sun Country Airlines is seeking a Crew Scheduler to be responsible for the accurate reporting of crewmember paid hours each month. Crew Schedulers provide daily data entry, pay processing, and employee customer service. They also execute the distribution of monthly bid packages, schedule awards, and general administration support of all Crew Planning activities.

Essential roles and responsibilities of a Crew Scheduler:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Crew Planning:

• Publish, award, and transition monthly crew schedules by contractually dictated deadlines
• Plans and administers crew vacation bidding
• Collaborate with other departments to balance offline crew resource requests with staffing demands
• Manage eligibility to bid list each month
• Coordinates monthly schedule construction

Crew Payroll:

• Reconciles payroll and provides all crewmember payroll data to the Sun Country Airlines Payroll department
• Provide payroll documentation to the crew members.
• Responds to and investigates associate emails and phone calls regarding pay issues and discrepancies. Communicates updates to the Payroll Department and crewmember.
• Produces and audits daily reports from the crew scheduling software system and makes corrections as necessary.
• Manages the workflow of payroll processes.
• Tracks new hires, terminations, and transfers to ensure correct pay.
• Trains and supports departmental new hires and temps; fields questions in supervisor absence.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Crew Analysis and Utilization:

• Analyze, optimize, produce, and publish contractual and Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) legal crew patterns and crew schedules that balance crew satisfaction with cost efficiency while meeting staffing objectives
• Analyze future flight schedules and provide input on changes to lower cost and increase crew productivity
• Monitor, analyze, and report on performance against plan to support continuous improvement
• Extract payroll and productivity KPI data from current systems to identify cost opportunities
• Perform ad-hoc data mining and analysis
• Any other duties assigned by management

The required qualifications we are looking for in a Crew Scheduler include:

• Previous work experience that includes basic accounting, percentages, basic statistical inferences, and/or ratios
• High analytical aptitude
• Ability to read, analyze/interpret, and make suggestions on pairing and crew schedule utilization.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid and convincing conclusions.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Ability to meet various deadlines under time constraints.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively.

Preferred Skills

• Previous work experience in Payroll, Crew Pay/Planning, Accounting, and/or Finance
• Previous Airline experience
• AIMS, Preferential Bid, S3RUS experiences preferred

Other Duties:

The above statements are intended to provide a summary of key responsibilities and the anticipated work environment of an accountant. They are not intended to be an all-inclusive listing of job duties. Position expectations may change as the needs, or the requirements of the organization evolve.

Additional Notes:

Must be able to obtain an MSP SIDA.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Sun Country Airlines respects and values every employee's contribution to our business. We believe that an important part of our strength comes from our people and their array of perspectives.

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