Senior Airspace And Flight Procedure Design Specialist

Job Description:

Impact a better future

At Serco
, we bring together the right people, technology, and partners to deliver innovative solutions that impact a better future.

We have been operating in the Middle East since 1947 and have a profound understanding of the region.

With over 4,500 colleagues here, we support governments across defence, space, transport, emergency services, justice and migration, and other vital public services. Our core capabilities span service design and advisory, customer experience, complex programme management, systems integration, and asset and facilities management, alongside environmental and case management services.

Guided by our unique service model, we work together with clients and partners to achieve long-term visions and tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges.

To provide senior technical leadership and subject matter expertise in airspace design and flight procedure design on behalf of Serco and the Sharjah Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), ensuring that Sharjah’s current and future operational requirements are fully represented, technically substantiated and integrated into UAE airspace modernisation.

The role will act as Sharjah DCA’s principal technical representative for:

• The redesign and enhancement of the Dubai Control Area (CTA);
• The wider UAE airspace redesign programme anticipated over the next three years;
• The design and optimisation of airspace serving Sharjah aerodrome, approach and area control interfaces; and
• The feasibility, definition and, subject to approval, implementation of a Sharjah CTA and Sharjah Approach Control service.

The role will develop, coordinate, review and technically assure airspace concepts and flight procedure requirements, including ATS routes, SIDs, STARs, holding procedures, instrument approach procedures, PBN applications, ATC surveillance minimum altitude products and the associated AIP and AIRAC material.

The role is responsible for ensuring that proposed solutions:

• Are safe, operationally workable, capacity-efficient and compatible with adjacent airspace;
• Support Sharjah Airport, airline growth, resilience and long-term service development;
• Are supported by appropriate data, modelling, simulation, safety assessment and stakeholder consultation; and
• Are designed, verified, validated, approved and published through the applicable GCAA and certified Flight Procedure Design Service Provider arrangements.

• Lead and coordinate Sharjah DCA’s technical participation in the Dubai CTA redesign and wider UAE airspace modernisation programme;
• Define Sharjah’s operational requirements, capacity objectives, constraints, design principles and acceptance criteria;
• Represent Sharjah at technical working groups, workshops, simulations, design reviews and regulatory meetings;
• Develop and critically review airspace concepts covering CTR, TMA, CTA and ACC interfaces, lateral and vertical limits, sectorisation, route structures, delegation, handover points and civil-military interfaces;
• Assess the effect of each option on runway operations, climb and descent profiles, traffic flows, route access, delay, contingency arrangements and future growth; and
• Prepare technical position papers, option assessments, recommendations and executive decision briefs.

• Lead, perform or oversee, within the approved certified arrangement, the conceptual and formal design and technical review of SIDs, STARs, instrument approaches, missed approaches, holding procedures, ATS routes and PBN transition routes;
• Ensure procedure concepts are compatible with PANS-OPS…