Airside Driver
Job Title: Airside Driver –Ambilift
Location: Aberdeen Airport
Reporting To: Contract Manager
Purpose:
As a member of the PRM Airside Driver Team, you will operate the Company's specialized vehicles on the airfield to transport passengers with reduced mobility (PRMs) between the aircraft and the terminal building, as well as from the terminal building to the aircraft. The range of vehicles includes Minibuses and Class 2 rigid heavy goods vehicles, for which comprehensive training and instruction will be provided. Additionally, you will be expected to assist PRMs onto the aircraft, ensuring their safe transit to their seats or into the ABM vehicles or terminal buildings, which requires the application of passenger and manual handling techniques.
Key Responsibilities:
- Complete the daily Vehicle Check Sheet, to maintain the operational reliability of the vehicle, reporting when necessary any vehicle defaults in line with the Vehicle Inspection procedure.
- Drive the Company vehicles ensuring that the vehicle is safe and secure at all times
- Operate the vehicle safely within close proximity to the aircraft using all safety systems of the vehicle
- Maintaining a clean and tidy vehicle at all times.
- Deliver or collect the passengers at the aircraft door and assist with the transfer into their seat or wheelchair through safe manual handling techniques.
- Complete Customer Care Agent (CCA) duties within the terminal when demand requires, this may include escorting passengers through the terminal/security and boarding flights or meeting arriving flights and assisting PRM’s through to baggage reclaim.
- Ensure that the Allocator is updated on progress of jobs at all times using PDA’s and Radio.
- Observe all Aberdeen airport airside driving requirements
- Promote a safe and secure environment at all times
Carry out any reasonable task requested. This description is an outline of the role and it is expected that key task will vary with the demand of our client and operation base.
Requirements
- Full clean UK driving license.
- Experience in a similar role or driving larger vehicles would be an advantage
Please note that any applicant that has spent more than 6 months in any country other than the UK in the last 5 years; will need a police clearance from all countries that this would apply to.
The police clearance will need to cover the full date range the applicant was in the specific country, furthermore, the police clearance needs to be obtained before the applicant attending any interview with ABM.