SCHEDULING SUPPORT

TASKS

• Cook up with training officers, Aviation Resource Management offices, Unit Deployment Manager, and Operations Officer (DO) to lay out a schedule to aid operations, qualification, upgrade, test, exercise, and continuation training achievement to meet required currency and progression standards, in line with DO priorities.
• Create long and short-term schedules to guarantee comprehensive coverage of all aircrew, instructor, evaluator, support personnel, and supervisor positions.
• Collude with senior squadron, group, and/or wing leadership on a day-to-day and weekly basis to facilitate flying operations.
• Note down when crewmembers will be on leave, temporary duty, have scheduled medical appointments, or have other scheduling commitments, and deconflict crewmember schedules and collaborate with flight leadership to ensure crews are prepared to meet assigned sortie taskings.
• Track daily flight/ground/academic training requirements and accomplishments to facilitate precise flight scheduling as directed by the DO and/or shop chiefs.
• Update data in Patriot Excalibur (PEX) (or future equivalent systems to PEX) and locally-developed database systems as required.
• Report updates to squadron, group, and wing leadership.
• Facilitate last-minute schedule changes to ensure full coverage by working with the current mission commander/operations supervisor (or equivalent) and flight responsible for the shift that is not fully manned.
• Acquire aircraft and equipment availability data from maintenance and schedule crewmembers for training, exercises, simulators, and operations, as needed.
• Publish/post scheduling data for unit long/short-range ground/academic, flying, and simulator training event schedules on PEX, or other computer database systems.
• Comply with operations group and scheduling chiefs' locally-developed guidance when building the schedule.
• Determine flight, ground, and simulator schedule requirements for upgrade, initial qualification, requalification, transition, currency, and continuation training based on syllabus requirements, student progression, weather, and daily equipment/training range availability.
• To the maximum extent feasible, schedule aircrews based on experience to minimize Operational Risk Management.
• Facilitate last-minute schedule changes to ensure full coverage by working with the current mission commander/operations supervisor (or equivalent) and flight responsible for the shift that is not fully manned.
• Obtain aircraft and equipment availability data from maintenance and schedule crewmembers for training, exercises, simulators, and operations, as required.
• Publish/post scheduling data for unit long/short-range ground/academic, flying, and simulator training event schedules on PEX, or other computer database systems.
• Comply with operations group and scheduling chiefs' locally-developed guidance when building the schedule.
• Determine flight, ground, and simulator schedule requirements for upgrade, initial qualification, requalification, transition, currency, and continuation training based on syllabus requirements, student progression, weather, and daily equipment/training range availability.
• To the maximum extent feasible, schedule aircrews based on experience to minimize Operational Risk Management.
• Facilitate last-minute schedule changes to ensure full coverage by working with the current mission commander/operations supervisor (or equivalent) and flight responsible for the shift that is not fully manned.
• Obtain aircraft and equipment availability data from maintenance and schedule crewmembers for training, exercises, simulators, and operations, as required.
• Publish/post scheduling data for unit long/short-range ground/academic, flying, and simulator training event schedules on PEX, or other computer database systems.
• Comply with operations group and scheduling chiefs' locally-developed guidance when building the schedule.
• Determine flight, ground, and simulator schedule requirements for upgrade, initial qualification, requalification, transition, currency, and continuation training based on syllabus requirements, student progression, weather, and daily equipment/training range availability.
• To the maximum extent feasible, schedule aircrews based on experience to minimize Operational Risk Management.

Minimum Qualifications

• CMEs must possess a Secret Clearance or previously held Secret Clearance which has expired (not revoked).
• CMEs must possess a minimum of two (2) years of experience working as a squadron aircrew scheduler.
• CMEs must possess a minimum of two (2) years of experience working with PEX or similar proprietary scheduling program.