Jobs that will be up for grabs include receptionists, cabin crew, airport services agents, pilots, ground staff
Dubai: The airport expansion programmes and continued growth in the UAE’s aviation and tourism industries will create thousands of vacancies for jobseekers in the country between 2025 and 2026, according to a company specializing in manpower supply.
Jobs that will be up for grabs include receptionists, cabin crew, airport services agents, pilots, technical and ground staff, engineers, architects and project managers, among many others, according to Abbas Ali, vice president, TASC Outsourcing.
Based on the current hiring requirements from several companies in the aviation sector, as well as “discussions with aviation experts” Ali estimated that the UAE will witness massive employment opportunities that will be equivalent to approximately 1.2 million and 1.3 million jobs between 2025 and 2026.
A quick look at the job postings by carriers based in the UAE would show that a number of jobs are currently being offered in the UAE. Emirates is looking to fill several positions, including service support manager, e-commerce manager for dnata Travel, maintenance technician, security agent, (UAE nationals only), contracts admin officer,
Etihad has also recently posted openings for cabin crew, administration officer/personal assistant, contact centre agent, demand manager, project manager, workshop supervisor, engineering communications controller, manager data scientist, inflight chef, food and beverage manager and first officer (co-pilot).
According to Oxford Economics, the aviation sector as of 2014 provides a total of 416,500 jobs in Dubai, accounting for 21 per cent of the emirate’s labour force. The industry plays a key economic role contributing about $26.7 billion to the Dubai economy, which is almost 27 per cent of the emirate’s gross domestic product (GDP).
Luke Eley, vice president of TASC outsourcing, said he believes that the airport expansion programmes, fuelled by growing international passenger and cargo traffic, will open up “enormous opportunities” in the aviation sector.
The UAE’s home-grown carrier, Emirates is forecast to fly 70 million passengers by 2020. During the same year, around 20 million visitors are expected to travel to Dubai just for the Expo 2020, while the Dubai International Airport is estimated to welcome a total of 126.5 million passengers, about 30 per cent higher than previous numbers. Projects to support the historic event in Dubai, which include the expansion of airport capacity, are also already underway.
With the various projects and expansion plans being undertaken, Ali said they’re already seeing an increase in manpower requirements in the aviation industry, with the number of jobs available going up from 7,500 in the third quarter of 2015 to 7,820 in the last three months of the same year, up by about 4 per cent.
He said most of the companies looking to hire right now include staffing and online travel agencies. He, however, noted that the major airlines are outsourcing their roles to suppliers in the region as part of their business expansion, adding that these companies are looking forward for “cost-effective models of hiring.”
Looking forward, Ali said he expects more companies to hire additional contract staff, especially when filling positions like receptionists, secretaries, administrative staff, document controllers and promoters on a temporary basis.
“The businesses are also in need of additional skilled and unskilled manpower in the blue-collar segment,” Ali told Gulf News.
“The start of 2016 was very promising (when it comes to hiring), with continuing increase in the technology contract staff. However, non-core areas like functional, administration, human resources are little slow,” he said.
He also foresees hiring of contract staff for cabin crew, airport services and flight operations positions.
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