Profession airport baggage handler

Airport baggage handlers receive and return the luggage of passengers at airport terminals. They prepare and attach baggage claim checks, stack baggage on carts or conveyors and may return baggage to patrons on receipt of claim check.

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Personality Type

• Enterprising / Realistic
• Enterprising / Conventional
• Realistic / Conventional

Skills

• Lift heavy weights

  Lift heavy weights and apply ergonomic lifting techniques to avoid damaging the body.

• Follow airport safety procedures

  Comply with airport safety procedures, policies and legislation to ensure a safe working environment for all employees, and to ensure the safety of passengers.

• Apply company policies

  Apply the principles and rules that govern the activities and processes of an organisation.

• Operate forklift

  Operate a forklift, a vehicle with a pronged device in front for lifting and carrying heavy loads.

• Monitor customer safety on apron

  Monitor passenger safety on apron and ramp area during boarding and deplaning; provide assistance to passengers.

• Tolerate stress

  Maintain a temperate mental state and effective performance under pressure or adverse circumstances.

• Follow ethical code of conduct in transport services

  Carry out transport services according to accepted principles of right and wrong. This includes principles of fairness, transparency, and impartiality.

• Set up ramps in airports

  Set up ramps in airports and assist in operations related to the storage of baggage and equipment on aircrafts.

• Maintain counterweight inside modes of transport

  Maintain balance and mass distribution inside the means of transport (vessel, aircraft, train, road vehicles, etc). Ensure that passengers and cargo distribution do not hinder the mobility of the mode of transport.

• Transfer luggage

  Transfer cargo and luggage to other gates, other airlines, and to passengers in a timely and safe manner.

• Identify airport safety hazards

  Spot threats related to security at the airport and apply procedures to counteract them in a quick, safe, and efficient way.

• Ensure efficient baggage handling

  Achieve efficient processing of baggage using the smallest amount of time, effort or cost resources possible.

• Ensure public safety and security

  Implement the relevant procedures, strategies and use the proper equipment to promote local or national security activities for the protection of data, people, institutions, and property.

• Work in a logistics team

  Ability to work confidently within a logistics team, with each member of the team fulfilling a role designed to increase the efficiency of the whole.

• Meet deadlines

  Ensure operative processes are finished at a previously agreed-upon time.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB