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Airfield Operations

Tasks may include:

• following safety procedures to ensure the safety of people and planes
• planning and coordinating airfield construction
• coordinating with air traffic control, civil engineers, and command posts 
• monitoring the arrival, parking, refuelling, loading, and departure of all aircraft
• maintaining radio contact with aircraft commanders
• training operations staff
• relaying departure, arrival, delay, aircraft and airfield status, and other  information to other agencies
• providing flight planning and operations publications, charts and maps, and weather information
• coordinate communications between air-traffic control and maintenance staff.

Skills and knowledge

Airport operations staff need to have:

• good communication skills, written and in person
• the ability to teach others
• good reading skills
• the ability to think critically
• a good attitude to learning
• the ability to monitor themselves, others and their organisation to make improvements
• sound judgment
• problem solving skills.