Principal Airfield Planner

Description

• Coordinate, manage and deliver airport planning & capacity tasks in all aspects of airports including airfield and apron, terminals and satellite buildings, landside transport, ancillary/support facilities and utilities.
• Be responsible for the co-ordination, management, production and submission of quality proposals, winning work for the team.
• Be responsible as the Project Manager for medium to large-sized projects and significant technical airport planning workstreams.
• Foster teamwork and collaboration in others as part of a multi-disciplinary team and a diverse range of projects.
• Be able to train others in this specialist field, nurturing junior members of the team and helping them to develop their airfield planning expertise.
• Nurture relationships with clients and key project stakeholders on the projects you manage, to ensure successful delivery and satisfied customers, while seeking to identify new opportunities.
• Be responsible for the management and delivery of a variety of projects including airport masterplans, airport facility planning, capacity and demand analysis and simulation modelling.

Requirements

• Excellent written communication and attention to detail, being able to produce accurate technical drawings and professional reports.
• Ability to organise, manage and supervise medium projects to large workstreams, including resources across various disciplines.
• Proactive and with a learning mindset.
• Continue to learn and practice new people management skills including managing larger planning project teams and nurturing and developing junior members of staff as a line manager.
• Ability to manage and supervise project teams, including the ability to train junior staff in developing new skills.
• Be a technical specialist with expertise in airfield planning and operations, having experience of all airfield facilities and types from multi-runway systems to small regional airports.
• Methodical problem solver with critical thinking and the ability to find and prove the best solutions.
• Proficient in Word, PowerPoint and Excel (Power BI desirable).
• A degree in aeronautical engineering, civil engineering, air transport management, or airport planning. Candidates with other relevant qualifications may be considered.
• Collaborate with and learn from other disciplines in our aviation team, including airfield engineering, transaction advisory, forecasting, project & asset management, and business planning.
• Expertise in project and programme management with contractual knowledge and the ability deliver commercially successful projects.
• Significant experience in the aviation industry, with a chartership qualification or the ability to demonstrate equivalent transferrable skills from another relevant industry.
• Ability to manage others to work efficiently in drawings platforms, such as AutoCAD Civil 3D, AviPlan, Infraworks, Navisworks, Revit, etc. to produce airfield and terminal spatial planning outputs.
• Knowledge of simulation & modelling tools for airfield and the ability to manage others to use them.
• Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills, which allow you to present work to clients at all levels.
• Chartership is not essential to apply for this role but is expected of a candidate who has qualifications aligned with a professional institution.
• Demonstrable professional experience in multiple technical fields within airport planning (airfield & apron, operations, terminal, landside, utilities, airspace, etc.) is expected and required.
• Ability to build and nurture client relationships, to identify and secure opportunities for follow-on work and win new prospects.

Benefits

• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance