Flight Operations Lead - KE-1
2025-06-24T19:40:09+00:00
Zipline
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FULL_TIME
Kisumu
Kisumu
00100
Kenya
Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics
Science & Engineering
2025-07-05T17:00:00+00:00
Kenya
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As a Flight Operations Lead at Zipline, you will be directly responsible for your team's success, ensuring optimal productivity and output. Your responsibilities encompass goal-setting, performance measurement, effective workload distribution, talent development, consistent feedback provision, and inter-team coordination. This role is based in Kisumu, Kenya.
What You'll Do
Team-level Responsibilities:
- Define clear, ambitious goals aligned with Zipline’s overall country and global objectives.
- Ensure clarity on priorities and KPIs that measure team performance effectively.
- Identify early gaps (people, tools, skills) and communicate proactively to secure needed resources.
- Delegate strategically, enabling team members to lead and own important projects.
Encourage growth by assigning tasks slightly above team members' current skill levels.
- Facilitate effective collaboration and integration of your team’s work with other teams within Zipline.
Individual-level Responsibilities:
- Assist each team member in effectively prioritizing their workload.
- Guide the team in collectively prioritizing tasks and comfortably declining or deferring tasks when needed.
- Conduct regular check-ins to evaluate progress and provide necessary course correction.
- Understand and support the long-term professional goals of each individual.
- Foster each team member’s development by ensuring a clear path for professional growth.
- Provide proactive feedback when team members either fall short of expectations or can expand their growth potential.
What You'll Bring
- 4+ years in engineering, troubleshooting and maintenance
- Experience in the aviation industry
- Proven record of exemplary performance in direct and indirect operational roles, able to "lead by example."
- Relevant experience in aviation and adherence to regulatory compliance.
- Analytical mindset—able to leverage data effectively for decision-making.
- Excellent conversational and interpersonal management skills.
- Experience leading change management initiatives and communicating effectively through transitions.
- Strong judgment in discerning when and how decisions should be made.
- Ability to foster team cohesion and collaboration.
- Demonstrated mentorship and coaching capabilities.
- Critical thinking skills with a clear focus on customer experience and understanding customer needs.
Team-level Responsibilities: Define clear, ambitious goals aligned with Zipline’s overall country and global objectives. Ensure clarity on priorities and KPIs that measure team performance effectively. Identify early gaps (people, tools, skills) and communicate proactively to secure needed resources. Delegate strategically, enabling team members to lead and own important projects. Encourage growth by assigning tasks slightly above team members' current skill levels. Facilitate effective collaboration and integration of your team’s work with other teams within Zipline. Individual-level Responsibilities: Assist each team member in effectively prioritizing their workload. Guide the team in collectively prioritizing tasks and comfortably declining or deferring tasks when needed. Conduct regular check-ins to evaluate progress and provide necessary course correction. Understand and support the long-term professional goals of each individual. Foster each team member’s development by ensuring a clear path for professional growth. Provide proactive feedback when team members either fall short of expectations or can expand their growth potential.
4+ years in engineering, troubleshooting and maintenance Experience in the aviation industry Proven record of exemplary performance in direct and indirect operational roles, able to "lead by example." Relevant experience in aviation and adherence to regulatory compliance. Analytical mindset—able to leverage data effectively for decision-making. Excellent conversational and interpersonal management skills. Experience leading change management initiatives and communicating effectively through transitions. Strong judgment in discerning when and how decisions should be made. Ability to foster team cohesion and collaboration. Demonstrated mentorship and coaching capabilities. Critical thinking skills with a clear focus on customer experience and understanding customer needs.
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Vacancy title:
Flight Operations Lead - KE-1
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics, Category: Science & Engineering]
Jobs at:
Zipline
Deadline of this Job:
Saturday, July 5 2025
Duty Station:
Kisumu | Kisumu | Kenya
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 24 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
As a Flight Operations Lead at Zipline, you will be directly responsible for your team's success, ensuring optimal productivity and output. Your responsibilities encompass goal-setting, performance measurement, effective workload distribution, talent development, consistent feedback provision, and inter-team coordination. This role is based in Kisumu, Kenya.
What You'll Do
Team-level Responsibilities:
- Define clear, ambitious goals aligned with Zipline’s overall country and global objectives.
- Ensure clarity on priorities and KPIs that measure team performance effectively.
- Identify early gaps (people, tools, skills) and communicate proactively to secure needed resources.
- Delegate strategically, enabling team members to lead and own important projects.
Encourage growth by assigning tasks slightly above team members' current skill levels.
- Facilitate effective collaboration and integration of your team’s work with other teams within Zipline.
Individual-level Responsibilities:
- Assist each team member in effectively prioritizing their workload.
- Guide the team in collectively prioritizing tasks and comfortably declining or deferring tasks when needed.
- Conduct regular check-ins to evaluate progress and provide necessary course correction.
- Understand and support the long-term professional goals of each individual.
- Foster each team member’s development by ensuring a clear path for professional growth.
- Provide proactive feedback when team members either fall short of expectations or can expand their growth potential.
What You'll Bring
- 4+ years in engineering, troubleshooting and maintenance
- Experience in the aviation industry
- Proven record of exemplary performance in direct and indirect operational roles, able to "lead by example."
- Relevant experience in aviation and adherence to regulatory compliance.
- Analytical mindset—able to leverage data effectively for decision-making.
- Excellent conversational and interpersonal management skills.
- Experience leading change management initiatives and communicating effectively through transitions.
- Strong judgment in discerning when and how decisions should be made.
- Ability to foster team cohesion and collaboration.
- Demonstrated mentorship and coaching capabilities.
- Critical thinking skills with a clear focus on customer experience and understanding customer needs.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 48
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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