Technical Director; Gateway Infrastructure Planner

Locations

Bristol, Newcastle, Croydon, Southampton, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Cardiff, London

Ainsley Anstess

Mott Mac Donald 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 Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

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.

We are a global engineering, management and development consultancy working across all built environment sectors. We are one of the largest employee‑owned companies in the world.

The specialist Gateway Infrastructure team is based in London, UK, and delivers major transport 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 (Development 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.

• Lead development planning work streams on major airport development, port and coastal development programmes, for owners and operators.
• Support scheme development and consenting approvals for port (air and water) related schemes.
• 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 port (air and water) landside facilities including those for surface transport, airport cities, cargo and logistics, ancillary and support facilities, and port adjacent land uses.
• Optimise landside planning at ports (Air and water) 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.

• 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 position for upcoming opportunities and prospects, converting them into projects, producing high‑quality proposals that are both technically and commercially sound.

• Technical leadership of landside planning work streams of major airport masterplan and development projects.
• Communicate effectively with client organisations and key stakeholders, to give them confidence in the landside…