Airport Planner

**Location**
- Madrid, Spain

**Country**
- Spain

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Full Time

**Market**
- Transport

**Discipline**
- Aviation

**Job ref**
- 5567

**Recruiter contact**
- Alice Roostan

**Mott MacDonald**

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.

Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values**:P**rogress, **R**espect, **I**ntegrity, **D**rive, **E**xcellence.

**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 responsible for the management and delivery of a variety of projects including airport masterplans, airport facility planning, capacity and demand analysis and simulation modelling.
- Deliver, coordinate and manage airport planning & capacity tasks in all aspects of airports including airfield and apron, terminals and satellite buildings, landside transport, ancillary/support facilities and utilities.
- Take on responsibilities of a Project Manager for small to medium-sized projects and/or workstreams involving airport planning activities.
- Have the opportunity to learn new technical, project management and people management skills from experienced project principals and technical principals with extensive experience.
- Be able to pass on your technical knowledge to new graduates, training them up on projects that you are managing.
- Report to and liaise with clients and key project stakeholders on the small projects you manage or larger projects that you are working on.
- Be responsible for the co-ordination, management, production and submission of proposals, under the guidance of Bid Principals.
- 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.
- Relevant experience in the aviation industry, preferably with a chartership qualification or the ability to demonstrate equivalent transferrable skills from another relevant industry.
- Demonstrable professional experience in one or more technical fields within airport planning (airfield & apron, operations, terminal, landside, utilities, airspace, etc.) is expected.
- Proactive and with a learning mindset.
- Embrace and support teamwork and collaboration in others as part of a multi-disciplinary team and a diverse range of projects.
- Ability to organise yourself and others on small projects and workstreams, including resources across various di