Principal Airfield Planner

**Locations**
- Croydon, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom

**Country**
- United Kingdom

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Full Time

**Market**
- Transport

**Discipline**
- Aviation

**Job ref**
- 12033

**Recruiter contact**
- Ainsley Anstess

**Locations**:Croydon, London
**Recruiter contact**:Ainsley Anstess

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.

**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.

**Overview of role**
We are a global engineering, management and development consultancy focused on guiding our clients through many of the planet’s most intricate challenges. One of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, Mott MacDonald integrates over 16,000 people helping our clients to deliver sustainable solutions.

The aviation team takes great pride in its diverse workforce - in fact we feel that cultural and personal diversity is one of the key strengths of our team.

Our aviation team consists of planners, engineers, project managers and analysts with over 20 different nationalities, working together to deliver world-class airport consultancy services to our clients.

We provide planning, engineering and analytical services for all sizes of airports: ranging from small regional airports to some of the biggest and best airports in the world, including London Heathrow, Hong Kong International Airport, Singapore Changi and New York JFK.

As one of the world's most experienced aviation consultancies, our client portfolio includes airports, governments, civil aviation authorities, airport companies, equity investors and providers of debt finance.

Our mission is to always connect globally, seek and open opportunities for clients and continue supporting the sustainable growth of our aviation sector. As such, it is not uncommon that during your time with Mott MacDonald you may have the opportunity to travel overseas or be seconded to another office for project related work.

As part of your role, you will get involved with the following tasks:

- Be a technical specialist with expertise in airfield planning and operations, having experience of all airfield facilities and types from multi-runway systems to small regional airports.
- Be able to train others in this specialist field, nurturing junior members of the team and helping them to develop their airfield planning expertise.
- Be responsible for the management and delivery of a variety of projects including airport masterplans, airport facility planning, capacity and demand analysis and simulation modelling.
- Coordinate, manage and deliver airport planning & capacity tasks in all aspects of airports including airfield and apron, terminals and satellite buildings, landside transport, ancillary/support facilities and utilities.
- Be responsible as the Project Manager for medium to large-sized projects and significant technical airport planning workstreams.
- Continue to learn and practice new people management skills including managing larger planning project teams and nurturing and developing junior members of staff as a line manager.
- Nurture relationships with clients and key project stakeholders on the projects you manage, to ensure successful delivery and satisfied customers, while seeking to identify new opportunities.
- Be responsible for the co-ordination, management, production and submission of quality proposals, winning work for the team.
- Collaborate with and learn from other disciplines in our aviation team, including airfield engineering, transaction advisory, forecasting, project & asset management, and business planning.

We are looking for a flexible and motivated person with a genuine passion for the aviation industry and a desire to make a difference in the world, with an appreciation for sustainability.
- Significant experience in the aviation industry, with a chartership qualification or the ability to demonstrate equivalent transferrable skills from another relevant industry.
- Demonstrable professional experience in multiple technical fields within airport pl