When performing initial calculations it is sometimes difficult to assess the appropriate manpower to deliver an Effective Aviation Quality System, this document is intended to guide through some basic understanding to allow you to make an appropriate determination for your organisation.
Prerequisite Questions
It is important that you answer these questions with total honesty because it is important to necessary to establish appropriate criteria to determine the manning levels.
1/ Is your Quality System
1a/ An Airline OPS Quality System
1b/ A Part 145 Quality System
1c/ A part M Quality System
Your answer may be 1a, 1b, or 1c or any combination means 1a + 1c for example or 1a + 1b + 1c
2/ Do you want your Quality System to
2a/ Only comply with Regulatory requirements to ensure the organisation has minimal or no regulatory finds against it.
2b/ Comply with the Regulatory requirements and provide a medium quality Improvement factor to the organisation
2c/ Comply with the Regulatory requirements and provide a Strong Quality Improvement factor to the organisation
Your answer may only be 2a, 2b, or 2c
3/ Is your quality System going to be
3a/ Mostly Manual
3b/ Manual with XL & or Access
3c/ Electronic Propriety Database – (e.g. Q pulse)
Your answer may only be 3a, 3b, or 3c
4/ Does your organisation have
4a/ 1 to 8 aircraft
4b/ 9 to 15 aircaft
4c/ 16 to 100 aircraft
5/ Is your organisation Commercial Air Transport
5a/ yes
5b/ Private
5c/ Special EG Aerial Work
6/ How many bases do you fly to
6a/ less than 10
6b/ 10 to 25
6c/ 25 to 35
6d/ 35 to 50 +
How many additional duties will the quality system manage directly
7/ Airworthiness Review
7a/ No only audit
7b 0 to 15 Aircraft
7c/ 15 to 25 Aircraft
7d/ 25 to 50 Aircraft
8/ Oversees the Technical Library (technical library staff additional)
8a/ No only audit
8b/ Yes 0 to 15 Aircraft
8c/ 15 to 25 Aircraft
8d/ 25 to 50 Aircraft
9/ Organisational Competencies (manages)
9a/ No only audit
9b/ 0 to 75 Employees
9c/ 75 to 150 Employees
9d/ 150 to 250 Employees
10/ Is The Quality Department Responsible for SMS Data assembly (not analysis)
10a/ No
10b/ Yes 0 to 15 Aircraft
10c/ Yes 15 to 30 Aircraft
10d/ Yes 30 to 100 Aircraft
11/ Does The Quality Department Manage Training
11a/ No only audit
11b/ 0 to 75 Employees
11c/ 75 to 150 Employees
11d/ 150 to 250 Employees
Complete the following Matrix
In the above Table the target Airline
1/ Has an Operations Department plus 145 Organisation
2/ Wishes to have a Strong Quality Improvement System
3/ Uses an Electronic Data Base (Qpulse)
4/ Operates 15 Aircraft
5/ Operates as Commercial Air Transport
6/ Fly’s to 20 bases
7/ Performs Airworthiness Reviews on its Aircraft
8/ Oversees the Technical Library
9/ Manages the organisational Competencies for 100 employees
10/ Is responsible for the management of SMS data
11/ Does not manage training
The organisation Requires 6 staff including a Quality Manager
Typical Structure would be:
1 Quality Manager all disciplines
1 Deputy Quality Manager multidiscipline
1 Flight Operations and Ground ops Auditor
2 Maintenance and Ground ops Auditor
1 Quality & Safety System Administrator
Tags:
Airline, aviation, Aviation Quality System, Calculating Manpower, Commercial Air Transport
