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About the Role

We are seeking a Technical Director who is a specialist in Airport Capacity Analysis. The successful candidate will be recognised in the industry as a technical expert in their specialist field and will be part of a globally respected and diverse team of airport planners, airfield engineers and forecast, capacity and business analysts.

Responsibilities

• Lead capacity work on major airport development programmes for significant airport owners and operators.
• Be recognised by clients and within the aviation industry as a technical specialist with world-class capacity expertise.
• Train others in this specialist field, nurturing junior members of the team and helping support them to develop their airport capacity capabilities.
• Progress capacity expertise across all airport facilities and systems, including operational research, data analysis, capacity planning, and simulation modelling.
• Optimise capacity at airports by understanding and making use of new technologies.
• Seek and pursue new business opportunities to grow airport capacity planning services.
• Build and maintain robust relationships with new and existing airport operator clients, influencing key directors to become their preferred consultant.
• Plan and position for upcoming opportunities and prospects, converting them into projects, producing high-quality proposals that are both technically and commercially sound.
• Take on the role of an Account Leader / Client Manager with clients that commission capacity services.
• Provide technical leadership of capacity and simulation modelling work on major airport planning and development projects.
• Communicate effectively with client organisations and key stakeholders to give them confidence in the capacity principles of their development programmes.
• Perform the role of Project Director/Principal, accountable for achieving successful project outcomes, coaching and mentoring Project Managers.
• Be accountable as Project Director/Principal for the successful completion of all projects under oversight, ensuring sound governance, commercial, financial, technical, health, safety, and welfare, and realisation of client benefits.
• Direct airport capacity projects to achieve quality deliverables on time and on budget to maintain customer satisfaction without compromising target profit.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in airport capacity, including work on large-scale airport development programmes.
• Numerically fluent, able to understand complex systems and able to direct and train junior staff in how to analyse and optimise them.
• An understanding of simulation modelling tools and techniques to train junior simulation modellers and 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 capacity managers.
• Fluency in English – knowledge of other languages will be valued as an advantage.
• Willingness to travel regularly to visit domestic and international clients.
• Willingness to work overseas on major aviation programmes would be valued as an advantage.
• Proficient in Microsoft software.
• Experience of using simulation modelling software tools and the ability to manage others to use them to deliver capacity and demand analysis outputs.
• Proactive and self-motivated, with a learning mindset.
• Naturally curious and analytical, willing to adopt new techniques and software and strive for continuous improvement.
• 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 confident liaison with clients and cross-functional teams.

Skills

• Airport Capacity Analysis
• Operational Research
• Data Analysis
• Capacity Planning
• Simulation Modelling
• Microsoft software

Location

• Croydon
• London
• Birmingham
• Cambridge
• Reading
• Manchester
• Southampton

Work Type

• Full-time
• Flexible working

Experience Level

• Technical Director
• Senior level experience

Education Level

• Degree in mathematics, operational research, air transport management, aeronautical engineering, airport planning, or civil engineering.
• Other relevant qualifications may be considered.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support with everyday health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• Variety of wellbeing support available through a comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to family.
• Company matches employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x basic salary, with an option to increase cover to 6 x salary.
• Income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, and will writing.
• Annual bonus schemes.
• 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.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Shared parental leave matches maternity leave, paying up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• Broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
• Join a wide range of groups including Advanced Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within communities through social outcomes.

About the Company

• Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
• We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.
• Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do.
• With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
• Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.
• As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.
• Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
• 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 help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe.
• From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it.
• Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle.
• We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Equal Opportunity

• Mott MacDonald is an equal opportunity employer, and we do value diversity at our company.
• We do not discriminate, and we take positive steps to create an inclusive culture.
• 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.