Location
Croydon, London, Birmingham, Cambridge or Southampton
Recruiter contact: Ainsley Anstess
About The Business Unit
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. 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 MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
About The Role
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.
Key Responsibilities Include
* Technical Excellence – Lead capacity work on major airport development programmes for significant airport owners and operators.
* Be recognised by 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 positioning 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.
* Be accountable for the successful completion of all projects under your oversight, ensuring sound governance, commercial, financial, technical, health, safety, welfare, and realisation of client benefits agreed in the proposal phase.
* Direct airport capacity projects to achieve quality deliverables on time and on budget, maintaining customer satisfaction without compromising target profit.
To Apply For This Position, You Must Have
* Extensive experience in airport capacity, including work on large‑scale airport development programmes.
* Numerically fluent, able to understand complex systems and direct and train junior staff in their analysis and optimisation.
* 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 and 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.
* Required to travel regularly to visit domestic and international clients, and willingness to work overseas on major aviation programmes will be valued.
* Proficient in Microsoft software.
* Experience of using simulation modelling software tools and the ability to manage others to use them to deliver capacity and demand analysis outputs.
We Are Looking For Candidates With The Following Characteristics
* Proactive and self‑motivated, with a learning mindset.
* A naturally curious and analytical person, willing to adopt new techniques and software and strive for continuous improvement.
* Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients, winning new work and becoming their preferred consultant.
* Strong project leadership skills with ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
* A team player who nurtures and uplifts colleagues, fostering teamwork and collaboration.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling confidence in liaising with clients and cross‑functional teams.
UK Immigration
We are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is due to changes in the UK Government's Skilled Worker route in April 2024. We welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, promoting fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.
Accessibility
If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will discuss how we can support you.
Agile working
We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.
We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including
Health and wellbeing
* Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
* Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
* Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
* A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing programme, including access for you and your family.
* Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family.
Financial wellbeing
* We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
* Life assurance equal up to 4× your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6× your salary.
* Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long‑term illness or injury.
* Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
* As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways, including annual bonus schemes.
Lifestyle
* A minimum of 33‑35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
* Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
* Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
* Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
* Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
* Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
* Primary annual professional institution subscription.
* Broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
* Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
* Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
Location(s): Croydon, GB; Birmingham, GB; Southampton, GB; London, GB; Cambridge, GB
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Transport
Discipline: Aviation
Job Ref: 12981
Recruiter Contact: Ainsley Anstess
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