Airspace & ATM Change Manager

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Job Description

This role involves identifying, shaping and delivery of airspace and air traffic management (ATM) solutions at Heathrow. Working within an experienced team, you will be responsible leading Heathrows delivery of ATM change projects. You will be working with NATS and other industry partners, suppliers and stakeholders to develop change projects from initial concept to final deployment. The Airspace and ATM solutions deployed will fulfil the business objectives of safety, environmental and service.

Responsibilities

• Proactively ensuring that HAL Programme Direction, Solutions Leadership Team and wider senior leadership team have a clear understanding of evolving ATM projects, environmental obligations along with best practice approaches being deployed worldwide;
• Creating, leading, managing, and delivering ATM or Airspace projects;
• Representing the solutions business requirements to ensure effective delivery of capital projects or opex initiatives on time and to budget;
• Building, maintaining, and influencing relationships with a broad range of internal & external stakeholders including NATS, airlines, CAA and DfT;
• Acting as point of contact for CAA in relation to all ATM change matters;
• Line management and leadership for direct reports;
• Procurement & leadership of contracted organisations and personnel in relation to relevant projects;
• Proactively advising and supporting the HAL Operations and Solutions leadership with opportunities, risks, and actions to drive business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Detailed knowledge and understanding of ATC, ATM, and airspace change including policy and regulatory requirements
• A working knowledge of Air Traffic Management activities relevant to the safe operation at and near airports within the UK
• Strong leadership skills to ensure stakeholders deliver outcomes that meet regulatory and operational requirements
• Excellent team leader, who can both deliver independently and manage others to deliver
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, negotiating and communication skills, backed by sound analytical, strategic, and creative thinking
• Experience of leading projects and project management processes
• High-level exposure to national and international political and governmental processes with experience in policy development across aviation issues.
• Ability to work under pressure, often to tight deadlines

About Us

There's something so special about working at the world's most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you'll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there's no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our agile approach offers the opportunity to combine home working with meetings, events and training at the airport. All roles involve some on-site working each week, so you'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work

Heathrow's Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger - not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With four diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

About the Team

Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. At Heathrow, you can be part of this - providing solutions that make every journey better for millions each year. That means ensuring we meet the changing needs of the passengers, colleagues and partners who use our airport to work, travel, trade, shop, eat, explore and connect. Our Solutions team covers project management, process improvement, business change, technology, cyber defence, masterplanning, infrastructure and procurement. It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious and often large-scale projects, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions.

Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark. You might be working with the technology and data that power our city within a city, driving vital commercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines, or improving the unique infrastructure that includes everything from 200 buildings to 250 HV substations. It's a collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the experts around you as you take on projects you'll both take pride in and feel passionate about.