How to become a load control officer
Official title: Load control officer (aircraft)
Also called: Load-sheet officer (aircraft), Executive (Load Control Services), Load Control Services Assistant, Load Control Services Officer, Load-sheet officer (aircraft)
Load control officer (aircraft) ensures that structural weights of an aircraft are within safety parameters and performs weight, balance, and centre of gravity calculations for departing flights. He/she gives instructions to loading clerks on placement of cargo and mail on aircraft in addition to completing load sheet and presenting to flight commander.
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Work-study diploma. Related ITE work-study diplomas: Work-Study Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering; Work-Study Diploma in Customer Experience Management (Aviation Services). You are employed by a company and study at ITE at the same time. Peernovo matched these from course names.
- Polytechnic or ITE: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec). Related ITE courses: Higher Nitec in Aerospace Engineering. Peernovo matched these from course names; ITE does not publish which jobs each course leads to.; Polytechnic diploma. Related diplomas: Diploma in Aviation Management (Temasek Polytechnic); Diploma in Aerospace Engineering (Ngee Ann Polytechnic). Peernovo matched these from course names; polytechnics do not publish which jobs each course leads to.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: $50,748 a year. The middle half earn $40,020 to $57,564 a year.
- Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a load control officer?
Ways in include: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec); Polytechnic diploma; Work-study diploma.
How much does a load control officer earn in Singapore?
Median full-time pay is $50,748 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $40,020 to $57,564.
Will AI change the work of a load control officer?
Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026