About this role
<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><u><b>Job Summary</b></u></H2> </div><div><div>The Senior Airport Project and Planning Manager is responsible for leading airport development planning, project prioritisation, and integrated delivery of capital and operational projects. The role ensures that airport infrastructure expansion, renewal, and optimisation initiatives are planned and executed in alignment with capacity demand, regulatory requirements, and operational continuity. Acting as a central coordination authority, the role connects strategic planning with on‑the‑ground execution while safeguarding safety, performance, and long‑term asset value.</div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><u><b>Job Responsibilities 1</b></u></H2> </div><div><div> <h4><strong>Airport Master Planning & Capacity Development</strong></h4> <p>Lead medium‑ and long‑term airport development planning, translating capacity forecasts, operational demands, and regulatory constraints into structured master plans and phased development roadmaps. Ensure alignment between infrastructure growth, passenger flow requirements, and airside/landside operational readiness.</p> <h4><strong>Capital Project Governance & Delivery Control</strong></h4> <p>Oversee the planning and execution of airport capital projects, ensuring scope definition, cost control, scheduling discipline, and delivery governance. Monitor progress across multiple concurrent projects while enforcing engineering quality, safety standards, and regulatory compliance.</p> <h4><strong>Operational Integration & Readiness Planning</strong></h4> <p>Ensure that all development and project activities are fully integrated with ongoing airport operations. Lead operational readiness planning, coordinating handovers, testing, commissioning, and stakeholder alignment to minimise disruption to live airport activities.</p> <h4><strong>Regulatory & Stakeholder Coordination</strong></h4> <p>Act as the focal point for alignment with aviation regulators, planning authorities, and internal operational stakeholders on project approvals, compliance, and certification requirements. Manage interfaces between engineering, operations, safety, and external authorities.</p> <h4><strong>Risk, Change & Dependency Management</strong></h4> <p>Identify and manage project risks, dependencies, and change impacts across the airport system. Ensure proactive mitigation of schedule conflicts, operational disruptions, and cost escalation risks.</p> <h4><strong>Performance Reporting & Executive Communication</strong></h4> <p>Provide structured reporting to executive leadership on project status, capital risk exposure, milestone achievement, budget performance, and upcoming decision points. Enable informed leadership decision‑making through transparent, data‑supported reporting.</p> </div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><u><b>Job Responsibilities 2</b></u></H2> </div><div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Additional Responsibilities 3</b></H2> </div><div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><u><b>Job Knowledge & Skills</b></u></H2> </div><div><div> <h4><strong>Airport Infrastructure Planning & Development</strong></h4> <p>Strong understanding of airport master planning, capacity modelling, and development phasing required to support safe and efficient airport growth.</p> <h4><strong>Capital Project Management in Operational Environments</strong></h4> <p>Proven knowledge of managing capital works in live airport settings, balancing delivery urgency with safety and operational continuity.</p> <h4><strong>Operational Readiness & Asset Handover</strong></h4> <p>Expertise in planning commissioning, testing, and handover of infrastructure assets into operational airport environments.</p> <h4><strong>Regulatory & Aviation Compliance</strong></h4> <p>Sound understanding of regulatory approval processes, aviation authority requirements, and certification obligations associated with airport projects.</p> <h4><strong>Cross‑Functional Stakeholder Coordination</strong></h4> <p>Ability to manage complex coordination across engineering, operations, safety, regulators, and executive leadership.</p> </div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><u><b>Job Experience</b></u></H2> </div><div><div>15+ years of experience in airport operations, infrastructure planning, or large‑scale transport projects.</div> <div>Proven responsibility for managing complex, multi‑stakeholder capital programmes within live operational environments.</div> <div>Experience operating within regulated aviation or transport infrastructure environments.</div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><u><b>Competencies</b></u></H2> </div><div><div>Agility</div><div>Irregular Operations and Contingency Planning L4</div><div>Airport Systems Operations L4</div><div>Airport Risk & Compliance Oversight L4</div><div>Data Accuracy & Reporting L4</div><div>Regulatory Compliance L4</div><div>AI Fluency</div><div>Build High-Performing Teams</div><div>Build Process and Systems</div><div>Drive Cost Optimization</div><div>Leadership</div><div>Provide Direction</div><div>Quality</div><div>Resilience</div><div>Speed of Execution</div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><u><b>Education</b></u></H2> </div><div><div>Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and Operations Management or any related field</div><div>Master's degree in Engineering and Operations Management or any related field</div></div></div></div>