Flight Crew Roster Team Lead (80-100%, all genders)

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where teamwork and precision are key? Join SWISS to lead a dedicated team, shaping crew rosters that balance operational needs, crew satisfaction, and compliance—ensuring smooth and reliable flight operations.

Starting date: August 01, 2025

You may apply in English or German. 

Facts

  • Location

    Zürich/Kloten

  • Employment level

    Direct entry

  • Function

    Flight Operations

  • Working time

    Full-time or part-time

  • Salary

    Base Management

  • Publishing date

    06-30-2025

  • Application deadline

    07-14-2025

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As Flight Crew Roster Team Lead, you will oversee a team responsible for developing, optimizing, and publishing monthly flight crew rosters. You will optimize and align roster parameters and track crew capacities while optimizing crew satisfaction, crew productivity and operational stability.

  • Oversee the development and publication of monthly rosters for flight crews under optimization of crew satisfaction, crew productivity and operational stability. 
  • Guide the development and evaluation of monthly roster scenarios and set priorities in collaboration with capacity planning, crew control and key interfaces. 
  • Monitor short-term crew capacity trends, assess potential risks, and direct short-term actions to maintain operational stability. 
  • Approve critical roster and absence change requests with a direct impact on planning outcomes. 
  • Manage and develop the Flight Crew Roster Team, ensuring a high-performance culture. 
Contact

Alexandra Wirth

Human Resources
Swiss International Air Lines AG

E-mail address for inquiries
recruiting.services@swiss.com

Attractive company pension scheme, Subsidized parking or public transport, Company health management, Flight benefits, Remote working (e.g. from home), Flexible workhours and part-time working models, Diversity programmes, Paid maternity and paternity leave

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Join SWISS

Our common goal is to make each customer’s flight a true air travel experience. For this, we go the extra mile – always, in every step of the process, worldwide. Join the SWISS team to become part of our fascinating world, where a job turns into a lifetime adventure.

  • Master’s degree in business administration, aviation management, or equivalent education. 
  • 5+ years of experience in workforce planning, scheduling, or strategic resource management and familiarity with crew rostering systems and operational planning tools. 
  • Operational mindset with the ability to assess and decide on complex planning scenarios. 
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across departments. 
  • Experience in managing teams under pressure is strongly favored. 
  • Fluent in English and German

For any further questions, please contact our Recruiting Services Center at +41 44 564 22 66. 

Shared position possibility: Please apply as tandem (each partner sends an individual application and refers to the other tandem partner)

About Swiss International Air Lines AG

It’s the little differences that make working at SWISS so appealing. The fact, for example, that we treat every detail with care, see quality in terms of hospitality and view nationality through an international lens. In a similar way, we see variety as richness, a job as an experience and SWISS as a world of inspiration. You, too, will be stimulated in our special working environment – one in which, wherever you are, you’ll always feel: Truly SWISS .... where people matter.

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