Head of Airport Planning

3 days ago


Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Parsons Full time

**Minimum Clearance Required to Start**:
Not Applicable/None

**Head of Airport Planning**

Abu Dhabi, UAE

**Role**:
Responsible for leading all airport planning activities, including the development and maintenance of the Airport Master Plan. This role will actively engage with C-Levels, strategic planning, commercial management, airport operations, contracts and procurement, internal and external stakeholders and other departments as required. Additionally, the Head of Planning will have external coordination with local government agencies, such as urban planning, economic development, Civil Aviation Authority and airport police.

**Responsibilities**:
The Head of Airport Planning will lead and manage the following topics:
**Strategic - Technical**
- Air traffic forecasting
- Flight schedule and airline operations analysis
- Capacity-demand analysis
- Airfield capacity and geometric layout planning
- Obstacle limitation surface planning
- Terminal capacity and functional layout planning
- Terminal and support facilities design
- Cargo facilities capacity, location and functional layout planning
- Landside facilities capacity, location and layout planning
- Airport support facilities capacity, location and layout planning
- Commercial facilities planning
- Overall Airport Master Planning
- Land use planning

**Strategic - Business**
- Establish planning priorities
- Project justification
- Stakeholder requirement analysis
- Planning options development and analysis
- Costs analysis
- Management presentations
- Technical reports

**Project Management**
- Development of Scope of work and project schedule
- Tender evaluation
- Consultant deliverables review
- Schedule management and cost compliance
- Stakeholder and management review presentations
- Adherence to safety and quality requirements

**People**
- Setting departmental goals and objectives
- Setting priorities and directing resource deployment
- Setting and maintaining planning standards and SOP’s
- Inter-departmental and external stakeholder coordination
- Staff performance review and career development
- Defining requirements for outsourced consultancy services
- Budgeting

**_* This job description reflects major tasks to be carried out by the position holder and identifies a level of responsibility at which they will be required to work. In the interests of effective working, the major tasks may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changing needs and circumstances. _**:
**Experience & Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
- A minimum fifteen years of experience in airport infrastructure planning, design and development in similar roles, including team management;
- Excellent written and oral communications skills;
- International experience is preferred; knowledge of common project delivery methods, knowledge of Middle East works practices preferable;
- Strong background in Master Planning and other planning studies for small/medium/large airports;
- Leadership experience, self-starter and able to work productively and efficiently within a large team environment;
- Capable of adapting to demanding project conditions;
- Ability to adapt to new situations and to react objectively and expeditiously to critical works;
- Computer literate Office package, knowledge in CAD and airport simulation (e.g CAST/ARCPORT or similar).

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or Civil Engineering or similar certification;
- Post-graduation degree/certification in Architecture, Airport Engineering in a relevant university;
- Professional registration preferred;
- Airport planning experience is required;
- Excellent presentation skills;
- Fluent in English, with ability to communicate in other languages.



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