Duty officer

The duty officer will contact the commander and senior NCOs if emergency messages are sent to the unit.

[1] In the Finnish armed forces, the duty officer (päivystäjä in Finnish), usually a conscript NCO, is responsible for maintaining the order in the unit, monitoring persons entering and leaving it and keeping count of its weapons.

The duty officer is stationed behind a desk at the unit's main entrance which is usually staffed at all times.

Following a request of more sophisticated meal controls by air companies, this job has been recently created with the aim of strict control in all meals served in flights, usually for long haul public flights in most international airports.

They are in charge of controlling the right amount of food reserved and received, by interacting with co-workers from independent providers of airline catering and provisioning services.

To validate their work, the DO must interact with the flight crew by making the chief cabin sign a receipt in order to part from their responsibility after the take-off.

Due to the wide range of issues to be managed and, especially, without full support from administration by night and weekends, the position requires employees with multi-language and background from airline management, air traffic control or piloting.