CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION

We are looking for a flexible and motivated professional with experience and a genuine passion for the aviation industry.

Essential:

• Extensive experience in airport landside planning, including work on large scale airport development programmes
• Experience to include landside transport facilities, airport operations, land-use planning, cargo and logistics, airport cities, and airport support facilities
• Fluent in spatial planning, able to understand complex geometry and able to direct and train junior staff in how to optimise configurations using appropriate software
• An understanding of spatial planning tools and techniques including Autodesk products, GIS, BIM, etc, and the ability to coach and mentor junior resources in their use to optimise airport facilities and operations
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate effectively at all client and stakeholder levels from board level directors to graduates as well as planning directors
• A degree in air transport management, airport planning, architecture, urban planning, transport planning or civil engineering. Candidates with other relevant qualifications may be considered
• Fluency in English – knowledge of other languages will be valued as an advantage
• To deliver this role you will be required to travel regularly to visit domestic and international clients
• Being willing to work overseas on major aviation programmes would be valued as an advantage
• Proficient in Microsoft software

We are looking for candidates with the following characteristics:

• Proactive and self-motivated, with a learning mindset
• A person who is naturally curious, who is willing to adopt new techniques and software and strive for continuous improvement in our ways of working
• An ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients, winning new work and becoming their preferred consultant
• Strong project leadership skills with an ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
• A team player who nurtures and uplifts colleagues, and is able to foster teamwork and collaboration
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, which allow you to confidently liaise with clients and cross-functional teams

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Our specialist aviation team is based in London, UK, and delivers major airport planning and development projects globally, working collaboratively with our regional offices. We are seeking a Technical Director who is a specialist in Landside Airport Planning. The successful candidate will be recognised in the industry as a technical expert in their specialist field. The candidate will be part of a globally respected and diverse team of airport planners, airfield engineers and forecast, capacity and business analysts.
Key duties and responsibilities will include:

Technical Excellence:

• Lead landside planning workstreams on major airport development programmes, for airport owners and operators
• Be recognised by our clients and within the aviation industry as a technical specialist with world-class landside planning expertise
• Train others in this specialist field, nurturing junior members of the team and helping support them to develop their landside planning capabilities
• Develop our planning expertise across all airport landside facilities include those for surface transport, airport cities, cargo and logistics, ancillary and support facilities, and airport adjacent land uses
• Optimise landside planning at airports for land-use and operational efficiency
• Understand surface access numerical capacity analysis and simulation modelling to be able to work closely and collaboratively with transport planners and modellers who specialise in this work

Business Development:

• Seek and pursue new business opportunities to grow our airport landside planning services
• Build and maintain robust relationships with new and existing airport operator clients, influencing key directors to become their preferred consultant
• Plan and positioning for upcoming opportunities and prospects, converting them into projects, producing high-quality proposals that are both technically and commercially sound
• With clients that commission our landside planning services, also take on the role of an Account Leader / Client Manager when required to do so

Project Delivery:

• Technical leadership of landside planning workstreams of major airport masterplan and development projects
• Communicate effectively with client organisations and key stakeholders, to give them confidence in the landside planning principles of their development programmes
• Perform the role of Project Director/Principal, accountable for achieving successful project outcomes, coaching and mentoring Project Managers
• As Project Director/Principal be accountable for the successful completion of all projects under your oversight
• Success means sound governance, commercial, financial, technical, health, safety and welfare, and realisation of client benefits agreed in the proposal phase
• Direct airport landside planning projects to achieve quality deliverables on budget and on time to maintain customer satisfaction without compromising target profit