Weight & Balance Associate (m/w/d) - Amazon Air in Schkeuditz

Job summary
Amazon's aviation transportation network is looking for motivated, customer-focused individuals delivering smiles to Amazon customers every day! As a Weight and Balance Associate, you will be directly responsible for the accuracy of the information provided to Amazon’s carriers relating to aircraft loading. This includes aircraft weight and balance calculations, container weights, and fuel load. The Weight and Balance Associate will assign positions for all containerized, palletized, and loose outbound cargo and communicate any concerns to sort and ramp management if adjustments are required. The Weight and Balance Associate will understand weight and balance theory and adhere to the aircraft operator and manufacturer requirements. Applicants are required to successfully pass company Initial and annual recurrent training in areas of Load planning, Weight & Balance, and Security.

Amazon is expanding its operations at Leipzig/Halle Airport. For this purpose, a cargo hall of around 20,000 square meters is to be built in the southern part of the airport site next to the existing World Cargo Center. The aim is to use the new building to improve the operational processes.


General Responsibilities:

• Provides information to management for pre-sort and during sort production meetings. This will include information such as the status of container inventory, planned containers by flight, status of damaged containers or nets, and other special sort-specific load instructions.
• Utilizes IB aircraft and line haul arrival planning systems.
• Ensures unit load devices (ULD) are in airworthy condition and load plan reflects the current container inventory status.
• Verify the required number and sequence for loading and departing ULDs.
• Communicates with Sort Management during the sort to ensure accuracy of container load quality and accuracy.
• Audits the ULD weights on closed containers and communicates discrepancies.
• Monitors real-time actual ULD closed container counts to ensure not to exceed the load plan. Communicates concerns to sort and ramp management if adjustments are required.
• Calculates aircraft weight and balance via approved software package, including entry of planned payload and aircraft type; this includes checks to ensure plans do not exceed compartment limits, lateral imbalance and maximum payload.
• Plans all cargo loading sequences and creates all cargo load sheets.
• Ensures accurate and timely load planning.
• Ensures the accuracy of aircraft loading paperwork to include all required weights, limits and fuel calculations.
• Communicates with Ramp Management to ensure aircraft load accuracy in accordance with the load plan.
• Verifies all containers and container weights are accurately input into the weight & balance system.
• Provides weight and balance and aircraft loading information to air carrier personnel responsible for releasing fligh