Job Details
** Full Time Wheelchair Attendant - New Hourly Rate/ Daily Tips/& $1,000 Bonus!**
**Job Category****:** Customer Service **Requisition Number****:** FULLT06451 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
Responsible for assisting and transporting airline passengers, requiring assistance, including wheelchair assistance at the a
*** **This position is located at the Melbourne International Airport** ***
**Great News:**
* All new employees hired prior to July 31st, 2021 will receive a $1,000 tax-free bonus after completing 90 days of service.
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**
* Push wheelchair passenger to and from gates
* Roll customer-occupied wheelchair safely down the jet bridge
* Ensure wheel brakes are in place prior to allowing the passenger to exit the wheelchair
* Complete any necessary wheelchair or incident reports
* Follow dispatcher gate orders
* Maintain a friendly and positive attitude and is attentive to each passengers individual needs: by assisting passengers with any problems, questions or concerns.
* Maintain professional working relationships with fellow employees, supervisors, mangers, airline employees, and airport authorities
* Exceed customer service standards
* Carry out other duties assigned.
**Required Skills:**
* Ability to work various shifts
* Strong customer service
* Strong verbal and respond to the spoken voice and to audible alarms generated by the terminal environment
* High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED) is preferred
* Ability to obtain an airport badge
* Must be 18 years of age and eligible to work in the US
* Must be able to pass a criminal background check and a drug screen
* Must have a flexible schedule and be able to work days, nights, weekends, and holiday
* Must possess a valid Drivers License.
**Benefits**
* $11 + daily tips
* Paid Training
* Uniform Provided
**Working Conditions**
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work is primarily done indoors; however, the individual will be working near terminals with consistently open doors where harsh weather conditions could affect the indoor environment. The Passenger Service Agent team is provided a Menzies Aviation uniform including a long coat.
This individual will also work with disgruntled customers throughout the airport and must maintain a positive attitude when representing our company and communicating with customers within the airport.
**Physical Requirements**
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with arms, climb or balance; and talk or hear.
Other tasks include lifting passenger bags up to 70lbs which could also involve bending and stooping. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25lbs and occasionally lift and/or move up to 70lbs.
**Qualifications**
**Skills**
**Behaviors**
**Required**
**Team Player****:** Works well as a member of a group
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**Motivations**
**Required**
**Flexibility****:** Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
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**Education**
**Preferred**
High School or better.
**Experience**
**Licenses & Certifications**
**Required**
EMPLOYEE BADGE
DRIVERS LICENSE
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)