Representative - Workforce - Line Maintenance - Temporary

Belonging to Air Canada is to belong to a Canadian icon, Air Canada recently voted best airline in North America. Let your career take off by joining our innovative and diverse team at the forefront of passenger air transport.

In this role, the Workforce Representative - Line Maintenance primarily ensures the long-term viability of station operations through training, scheduling, and qualification levels to meet, at all times, minimum standards based on passenger loads and night planning requirements. Their role also consists of managing the payroll register and all issues related to collective agreements and local agreements.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Coordinate the development of the department training plan, monitor results, and present them in weekly meetings.
• Develop reports to effectively manage training and ensure it meets operational requirements, and present them in weekly meetings.
• Liaise with Air Canada Maintenance Training to define training requirements. Ensure that required training has been completed by YUL/YHZ/YYT employees and that managers have followed up.
• Ensure training complies with airworthiness regulations.
• Keep Company policies and procedures updated, and communicate changes made to them.
• Assist and support administrative staff regarding ongoing systems and process changes.
• Participate in IT improvements and system changes related to Maintenance qualifications, leave requests, etc.
• Improve and simplify payroll processes between Air Canada Maintenance, administrators, and HR Connex.
• Resolve difficulties encountered by employees and administrators with HR Connex regarding salaries, paychecks, sick leave, service-related issues, policies and processes, out-of-town assignments, etc., that influence employee satisfaction, and authorize their processing.
• Authorize requests relating to union business time off, hour pools, shift trades, annual leave modifications, etc.
• Negotiate with the local union committee all issues related to workforce, transfers, leave quotas, training, employee issues, postings, processes, etc. Liaise with Labor Relations as needed.
• Regularly review staffing needs and ensure there are a sufficient number of employees. Implement any necessary changes.
• Negotiate and process shift and leave requests based on operational requirements.
• Develop, implement, and maintain management work schedules and leaves. Review weekly staffing. When necessary, plan and modify management work schedules and update them as needed.
• Process and monitor staffing levels. Process staffing requests as needed.
• Process layoffs and recalls as needed.
• Participate in recruitment processes as needed.
• Establish strong and effective working relationships with the management team and internal clients to ensure the effectiveness of training and workforce plans.
• Assist the management team in resolving administrative problems.
• Focus on activities that will optimize performance for the company by carefully reviewing related costs and benefits.

Qualifications

• College diploma or university degree preferred
• Project management skills, business administration or administration experience
• Computer skills: Excel, Word, and Microsoft Office suite
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Proven team spirit
• Strong oral and written communication skills

Conditions of employment:

Candidates must be eligible to work in the country concerned at the time a job offer is presented and are responsible for obtaining work permits, visas, or other necessary authorizations. Proof of eligibility must be provided before the start date.

Language Requirements

Equal skills being equal, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Diversity and Inclusion

Air Canada is strongly committed to diversity and inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible, and rewarding workplace that highlights the unique contribution of our employees to our company's success.

As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage diverse applications so that we can have a workforce that is varied and representative of our customers and the communities where we live and offer our services.

Air Canada thanks all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.