Airport Capacity Planner

TN United Kingdom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in airport operations is seeking an Airport Capacity Planner. The role involves supporting capacity management through strategic planning and analysis, ensuring alignment with commercial forecasts. Candidates should have strong analytical skills and experience in transport planning. Benefits include flexible working, pension contributions, and various employee discounts.

Benefits

Company pension contribution options up to 10%

Free parking

Subsidised public transport

Huge range of company discounts

2 volunteering days per year

Free VirtualGP service

Care Concierge service

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience in transport planning or performance analysis.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Tools, especially Excel.

Responsibilities

• Support Capacity Managers with technical advice on capacity and demand issues.
• Undertake research on aviation trends and interpret commercial forecasts.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Power BI

CAD

GIS

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• Flexible/ Hybrid working for a better work/ life balance.

Why MAG?

At MAG we provide the airport facilities and travel services that people need to connect with the world. As the largest UK owned airport operator, we serve over 60 million passengers a year from Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands Airports. With over 270 destinations across the globe, our businesses not only bring people together but also support the prosperity of the regions in which we operate.

Sustainability is one of our core values, and it shapes everything we do. We're committed to protecting the environment and supporting our local communities. Our programmes include airport and airline decarbonisation, comprehensive education, skills and employment support and community engagement initiatives including volunteering opportunities.

At MAG, we recognise creating a first-class journey for our customers starts by creating a first-class career journey for our colleagues and we are committed to building inclusive environments in which our people can thrive. You’ll also have access to some great benefits including:

• Company pension contribution options up to 10%
• Free parking
• Subsidised public transport
• Huge range of company discounts
• 2 volunteering days per year
• Free VirtualGP service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Care Concierge service

The role

As an Airport Capacity Planner, you will support the Capacity Managers in providing the airports with technical advice and strategic guidance on capacity and demand issues. You will support the development of short and long-term capacity plans that align to our commercial demand forecasts and operational improvement plans, reflect regulatory and process changes, and provide for customer needs. You will establish and collate internal and external data sources required to quantify and validate operational requirements, support the necessary capacity analysis, and inform any solutions. Other accountabilities include:

• Undertake research to understand and interpret aviation trends, provide external benchmarking, and identify new and innovative solutions and approaches.
• Interpret commercial forecasts and business strategy into operational demand forecasts.
• Work closely with Operations to understand their current process capability and future targets to plan against.
• Undertake internal capacity planning studies and appraisals to understand and analyse constraints and identify mitigating actions, drawing on analytical skills and planning tools such as spread sheet analysis, simulation, CAD and GIS.
• Report and communicate results across the Group in an efficient, effective and consistent way, to inform stakeholders of outcomes and opportunities.

What will make you successful in the role?

You will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role, a transport planning, operational research or performance analysis role would be desirable. You will have strong analytical skills and knowledge of appropriate tools to undertake operational capacity analysis and develop capacity planning models. Proficiency to an advanced level with Microsoft Office Tools, principally Excel, Powerpoint, Power BI is essential and experience with CAST Terminal and/or CAST Stand Allocation is desirable. You will also have strong communication skills, with a proven ability to communicate data and information in a manner that is readily understood by a wide audience of varied experience.