Senior Airport Analyst

Job overview:

In this exciting position at a growing worldwide airport consultancy, you will be analysing big data and developing models to support client’s effective decision-making and driving strategic delivery of consultancy. Clients include London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and other airports worldwide such as Schiphol, Budapest, GMR Hyderabad International, Leeds Bradford, London Stansted and Bristol.

As airports grow again after the Covid Pandemic and become capacity constrained, we model the movement of passengers, baggage, vehicles, and aircraft analysing future demand and capacity, operations, resilience, new automation technology and new IT. We also undertake work on the airport of the future including eVTOL flight planning, sustainability and vehicle electrification Our work is at the cutting edge of modelling these highly complex, integrated systems.

Job Role:

Reporting to the Technical Director the role will be to develop and support our in-house simulation tools known as TransvisionAiR® which has been principally developed in Python and XML. It will also require a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools including Excel, Access, Visio, and Visual Basic. In addition, you will be required from time to time to support a team of Airport Analysts and Airport Planners in the delivery of client projects.

Experience of Airport operations and processes is not required as full training will be undertaken against a comprehensive induction programme lasting 9-12 months.

This position is a fantastic opportunity working alongside a skilled team of Airport Planners and Analysts and learning from the Technical Director within an innovative and growing company. You will be able to use your skills in a highly creative team and will have real accountability and responsibility. With appropriate security clearance you will be working Airside at LHR to gather a ‘hands on understanding’ of the systems and testing your models in the ‘real world’.

Education & Experience:

●         Postgraduate – Having studied one of the following; Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Data Analytics, Science or Technology, to Post Graduate level (Master’s Degree)

●         Process Engineering experience desirable

●         3 to 5 years Industry experience essential

●         Airport Industry experience desirable, but not essential

Job Responsibilities:

The role will require understanding of airport processes and operations individually and holistically to support our Airport Planners in both technical development of TransvisionAiR® and day-to- day client work.

1.           Modelling and Simulation Development

●         Analysing big data

●         Create process capacity models and simulations utilising Excel, Visual Basic and Python as appropriate. This includes allocation plans, databases, mitigations and network maps and simulations for baggage, ground handling, passenger and airport vehicle movements.

●         Data gathering

●         Develop spreadsheet and database queries for reporting complex mathematical problems in a simple visual, and engaging format

●         Maintain and extend existing software tools

●         Assist the future re-platforming of existing software tools

●         Develop and maintain Airport Component Catalogue items

2.           Client Consultancy Support

●         Read and understand architectural and technical drawings

●         Undertake airport data acquisition and cleansing

●         Project management and client presentations

●         Process analysis of data, developing queries and generating reports

●         Make decision support recommendations to others based on modelling outcomes

●         Produce presentation materials in written, numerical and graphical formats

Education & Experience:

●         Postgraduate – Having studied one of the following; Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Data Analytics, Science or Technology, to Post Graduate level (Master’s Degree)

●         Process Engineering experience desirable

●         3 to 5 years Industry experience essential

●         Airport Industry experience desirable, but not essential

Necessary Skills

1.        Technical

●         Technical ability in either Applied Mathematics, Data Analytics, Computing, Physics or Engineering

●         Program in at least one high level language at intermediate to expert level (Python is preferable but can be VB, C# or C++)

●         Program at least one simulation platform (AutoMod, Unity, CAST)

●         Program/Query databases (Access & SQL) and spreadsheets (Excel) 

●         Stochastic process modelling

●         Understand process modelling concepts

●         ‘Monte Carlo’ methods of simulation

2. Personal

●         Good Communication skills

●         Produce high quality presentation materials

●         Attention to detail

●         Generate ideas and evaluate consequences

●         Effective time management

●         Work without close supervision

Extended skills & experience 

1.        Technical

●         More than one programming language (especially VB, C#, or C++)

●         Graphic programming

●         Web-based programming (XML)

●         Understanding of real-world problems

●         Understanding of AI and its application

2.        Personal

●         Desire to work in a highly qualified, multi-cultural team

●         Desire to develop your own consultancy and client facing skills

●         Desire to grow your own management skills in a rapidly expanding business

●         A self-learner able to think creatively

AiQ Consulting:

AiQ Consulting provides expert kerbside to airspace consulting. We analyse, model and optimise every aspect of an airport.

Our experienced team supports airport owners, operators, and stakeholders across the world’s airports to assess the entire system - passengers, baggage, aircraft, transfer systems and ground service equipment – providing the big picture and detailed analysis. We solve the most complex capacity and system challenges, assessing risk and future proofing operations. Our unique Airport Intelligence gives the big picture as well as highly detailed insights and analysis.

We have expertise in airport planning, simulation of systems, applied mathematics, engineering, architecture, airport operations and stakeholder management. Our bespoke modelling and simulation software TransvisionAiR® is at the heart of our business. 

The analyst/simulation team finds the most effective methodology to solve problems in the quick-moving and reactive Airport industry, particularly around operations, resilience, future demand and capacity, new automation technology and sustainability. We model or simulate at the level of detail that Big Data can support and aim to provide appropriate analysis and forecasts based on realistic assumptions and processes.

AiQ determines the appropriate level of modelling from the requirements of each individual airport we work with. This can range from a simple pivot graph in a spreadsheet through to a minimal 2D model and all the way to a fully realized 3D simulation, perhaps with virtual reality.

AiQ Consulting enables owners, operators and stakeholders to realise capacity and future proof their airports and plan for sustainable growth.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £55k to £65k year, depending on experience

Based at Cranfield University Innovation Centre, but from time-to-time travel to our office at London Heathrow. Occasional travel to clients worldwide is possible. For overseas nationals already working or studying in the UK, AiQ operates a Certificate of Sponsorship scheme