Caroline Johnson, Ground Operation & Product Officer

Caroline Johnson

Ground Operation & Product Officer

Jazeera Airways

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Bachelor's degree, Pyschology
Experience
17 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months

Ground Operation & Product Officer at Jazeera Airways
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • March 2008 to November 2014

Ground Operations & Products Officer
Reporting directly to the VP Grd Ops & Products
 Crew Documentation
 Screening of CV’ for Cabin crew recruitment & call in for interview
 Ensuring to that all documents are ready for Cabin crew to fly from the respective deparments. And keeping a track of expires for the same (Residence with HR dept, Medical certificate, CMC, emergency license etc with the training dept)
 Maintaining a monthly record of individual product sale & its popularity
 Handling Deck crew / Cabin Crew Uniforms
 Daily In-flight Catering Order
 Purchasing & Handling Suppliers for In-flight Catering products
a) Preparing LPO for any delivery order and invoice received from the specific supplier
b) Make sure the orders get delivered on time
c) Negotiating in getting lower prices from suppliers
d) Reviewing contracts for any incentive given by the supplier
 Quality Control of Food products supplied on board
 Cross trained to replace any administrator in the cabin Services department
 Assist VPGO in negotiating and selecting appropriate product vendors, as well as negotiating terms of services and charges with KASCO.
 Assist VPGO and product committee in developing new periodical catering products as well as crew meals.
 Manager vendors’ and KASCO relationships
 At all times keep accurate inventory of product stocks kept at KASCO facilities
 Keep stock of trolleys and containers kept at KASCO facilities.
 Ensure that systematic product loading and offloading instructions are carried out by KASCO
 Ensure that cabin crew checks the contents of trolleys and containers before signing the acceptance forms from KASCO.
 Ensure that trolleys and containers and properly cleaned and washed before loading.
 Conduct periodical spot checks at KASCO facilities to ensure J9’s policies and procedures and adhered to and qualities are up to standard.
 Conduct periodical spot checks onboard to ensure the loaded products meets J9’s policies, procedures and standards.
 Coordinate with OCC and cabin services to ensure that the seasonal flights schedules and ad-hoc schedule changes are communicate to KASCO.
 Conduct a regular morning visit to Kasco to ensure stability of J9 operation
 Conduct weekly spot checks of Cabin Appearance
 Conduct MHB checks for flights sporadically.
 Analyzing delays pertaining to GOPS - daily OCC reports
 Analyzing and leasing with Kasco on discrepancies and ensuring the rectification of the same
 Coordinating to ensure with suppliers and Kasco on replenishment of dry store items stock on time
 Ordering, Preparing LPO’s and ensuring suppliers payments on time for J9 dry store by J9 finance.
 Jointly assessing with PO to identifying a suitable supplier with our requirements.
 Other tasks assigned by VPGO.
 Regular Quality Control Check on NAS on Cleaning the Aircrafts
 Seats
 Carpets
 Galley
 Cabin
 Toilets
 Cockpit
 Regular Quality Control Check on the catering and de-catering Of Kasco
 To Ensure that the loading of food items and other products on Board are as per the standard loading sheet
 To ensure the Quality and quantity of the food and other products on board

Results : Having an healthy, pleasant and safe environment that meets the Standards.

Administration officer at Britam Defence
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • April 2004 to January 2008

 Entire Admin Documentation
 Filing & controlling all the correspondence with easy retrievals of filed documents.
 Developing & maintaining database for all the correspondences (incoming & outgoing) in simple spreadsheet format.
 Offering Accounts & Payroll Services for Staff in Iraq
 Travel arrangements (Airway bookings & Accommodation arrangements)
 Answering to Quiries and Complaints of customers / clients & staff and providing them with satisfactory solutions
 Data entries of potential Staff and present staff.
 ISO - 9001/2000 Implementation
 Special office administrator for Britam /USG partnership, Abu Dhabi, UAE
a) To advice and implement ISO procedures for USG
b) To maintain ISO procedures for USG
c) To organize and collect data for ISo review meetings
d) To conduct ISo audits as outlined by the USG ISO quality policy
e) To oversee and maintain personal records for USG
f) To oversee & develop systems for maintaining administrative records for USG
g) To take minutes for USG management meetings
h) To constantly explore ways to improve USG operations.

Host at reception at Ikea-kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • March 2003 to February 2004

 Handling Calls
 Customer Quires and Complains solved up to Customer Satisfaction
 Everyday conversations with customers provide a continuous flow of useful and updates information.

Personal Assistant to the GM at International Technology
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • January 1997 to February 2004

 Organizing day-to-day operations of the General Manager
 Control of documents & other correspondences (in electronic / hard format)
 Hiring and supervising any paid office staff
 Coordination with all volunteer office workers
 Working under pressure to achieve set targets.
 Necessary forms and information to the Payroll Service and Accountants following Duties and Responsibilities have been established as guidelines by the Board of Trustees

Education

Bachelor's degree, Pyschology
  • at KC College
  • March 1985

Specialties & Skills

ms office
outlook express

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert
Hindi
Beginner
Punjabi
Intermediate
Gujarati
Intermediate
Malayalam
Expert
Tamil
Beginner
Urdu
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Security Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Jazeera Airways
Date Attended:
August 2012
Duration:
8 hours
Safety Management system (Training)
Training Institute:
Jazeera Airways
Date Attended:
August 2013
Duration:
8 hours

Hobbies

  • Acting, Reading, Swimming