Technical Director - Airport Capacity

About The Business Unit

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.

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 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.

• Technical Excellence – Lead capacity work on major airport development programmes, for significant airport owners and operators.
• Be recognised by our 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 our 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.
• Business Development – Seek and pursue new business opportunities to grow our 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 our capacity services.
• Project Delivery – Technical leadership of capacity and simulation modelling work of 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.
• Accountable for the successful completion of all projects under your oversight, ensuring sound governance, commercial, financial, technical, health, safety and welfare, and realisation of client benefits agreed in the proposal phase.
• Direct airport capacity projects to achieve quality deliverables on time and on budget to maintain customer satisfaction without compromising target profit.

• 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.
• A degree in mathematics, operational research, air transport management, aeronautical engineering, airport 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.
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