Technical Director – Aviation Masterplanning

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Aviation is one of the key focus sectors at AECOM, a business sector which sits within our number one rated global transportation engineering consultancy. Whilst we are already the number one aviation engineering consultancy by revenue globally, we see significant future growth potential as the sector recovers from the downturn induced by the Covid‑19 outbreak. Our clients are now re‑investing in their assets to ensure they are in the right condition, and also to meet their capacity needs of the future.

Traditionally the UK Aviation business has been UK‑centric, focused on supporting our clients with airfield and civil infrastructure engineering services. Our future growth strategy is moving away from this, focusing around four key pillars: strengthening existing and building new relationships across our UK customer base, creating new client relationships and activity across Europe, building our aviation advisory business globally, and creating a new service offering targeting future flight and ESG.

To support this growth, we are currently seeking a Technical Director to lead the development of our Aviation Advisory business in the UK, Europe and India to help grow the project pipeline and expand the team. In this role, you will develop winning proposals and work on a range of aviation advisory projects across the UK and internationally. This role can be based in any of our UK AECOM offices.

• Grow:
  Utilize your existing network to seek opportunities with current and new clients to build a pipeline of advisory projects. Build relationships with key clients to the level of trusted advisor status. Build AECOM’s profile in this sector through conference participation, presenting, thought leadership and social media.
• Lead:
  Lead and manage a team of up to 5 people with a range of skills and seniority to deliver complex projects with demanding deadlines to a high level of quality.
• Shape:
  Write the strategy for the advisory business, identifying target markets and clients, building our service portfolio, setting annual P&L targets and identifying strategic recruitment requirements.
• Deliver:
  Provide consultancy services across a range of disciplines including airport master planning, capacity analysis, terminal and support facility planning, airfield planning and phasing, airside and terminal simulation modelling, and environmental and sustainability advice.
• Advise:
  Provide expert technical and business advice and analysis to our clients through the management and delivery of projects, working alongside other aviation technical teams, including technical due diligence and technical advisor roles. As a subject matter expert, support major bids and programmes where specialist knowledge, insight and advice is required.
• Ensure Quality:
  Responsible for ensuring the quality of our deliverables before they are presented to our clients.
• Collaborate:
  Part of our wider Europe and India Aviation team, a multi‑cultural/multi‑disciplinary team based across the UK, Europe and India. It includes junior and senior members with a range of consulting backgrounds, all passionate about what we do in the aviation sector.

• Minimum qualification:
  
  Bachelor’s degree. Membership of an appropriately recognized professional institution.
• Technical
  
  Experience:
  
  Within the airport planning, airport design, airport engineering and airport construction sector.
• Project Management and Delivery:
  Previous experience in leading multi‑disciplinary project teams and delivering projects to required quality standards, on time and within budget. Experience and understanding of project quality control, programming and budgeting.
• Business Development:
  Previous experience of developing and maintaining…