Airport Engineering Manager

Doncaster City Council; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Annual leave 29 days

Relocation package

Health plan

Cycle to work

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Doncaster City Council seeks an ambitious Airport Engineering Manager to establish and lead a brand-new in-house engineering function at Doncaster Sheffield Airport. You will shape the engineering strategy, build the team and set maintenance standards to ensure safety, compliance and high operational performance.

The role offers a hands-on leadership challenge during the airport's redevelopment, with responsibility for asset reliability, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement as the

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement the airports engineering strategy.
• Engineering & Asset Management: Maintain electrical, mechanical, building services, baggage handling, security infrastructure, standby power, fuel systems; implement preventive maintenance.

Job description

If you are an existing City of Doncaster Council employee, please enter your YourHR login details (your username is your payroll number) via the Existing user login page to access your account. The system will pre-populate many of the fields on your application form, making the process quicker and easier.

If you are not a City of Doncaster Council employee and already have a registered jobs account, your username will be your registered email address.

Please enter your search criteria below and select Search. To search for more than one item in a list, select the multiple criteria required using the keyboard keys 'Ctrl' or 'Shift'.

location_on Location Doncaster Sheffield Airport

credit_card Salary £60,000 (inclusive of market supplement)

work_outline Basis Full time

Job profile for Airport Engineering Manager

Airport Engineering Manager

location_on Doncaster Sheffield Airport

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Salary £60,000 (inclusive of market supplement)

Contractual hours 37

Basis Full time

Region Doncaster

Job category/type Engineering/Technical, Management

Date posted 01/09/2026

Job reference REQ23874

Attachments FD Application Form.docx JRS - Airport Engineering Manager - June 2026 (1).docx

Job description

Based at: Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Salary details: £60,000 (inclusive of market supplement)

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time

Hours: 37 hours per week

Flexible working arrangements: Flexible working requests will be considered.

Doncaster Sheffield Airport is entering a transformative period as preparations continue for its planned reopening, following its closure in 2022 and sustained regional efforts to restore aviation activity to the site. Local partners and aviation specialists have been working together to rebuild the operational foundation required for a safe return to service.

About the role

Doncaster Sheffield Airport is entering an exciting new phase of development and growth. We are seeking an ambitious and experienced Airport Engineering Manager to establish, lead, and develop a brand-new engineering function that will support the safe, efficient, and sustainable operation of the airport.

This is a unique opportunity for a hands-on engineering leader to shape the future of engineering at a growing UK airport. Reporting to the Airport Asset Manager you will be responsible for creating the engineering strategy, building the team, developing maintenance standards, and ensuring all airport infrastructure and critical assets are maintained to the highest levels of safety, compliance, and operational performance.

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting airport operations from reopening and beyond, creating a proactive engineering culture that delivers reliability, resilience, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and implement the airports engineering strategy.
• Establish a new in-house engineering function including organisational structure, systems, processes and governance.
• Develop, short, medium and long-term maintenance and asset replacement plans.
• Provide technical leadership to support airport growth and future infrastructure projects.
• Manage Engineering Budgets, capital investment programmes and lifecycle planning.

Engineering & Asset Management

Take responsibility for the maintenance and performance of all airport infrastructure and engineering assets including;

• Electrical Distribution Systems
• Mechanical Systems
• Building Services
• Baggage Handling Systems
• Security Related Infrastructure
• Standby power generation
• Fuel Systems & Utilities
• Introduce and maintain effective Planned Preventative Programmes
• Drive asset reliability, operational resilience and performance improvement

Compliance & Safety

• Ensure compliance with all applicable aviation regulations, health and safety legislation, environmental requirements and industry standards.
• Support regulatory inspections and audits.
• Act as the airports engineering’s subject matter expert for operational and capital projects.
• Develop engineering procedures, risk assessments, safe systems of work and permit to work processes.

Team Development

• Recruit, lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team.
• Establish a culture of accountability innovation and continuous improvement
• Manage contractor performance and external maintenance providers.
• Support training, competency and succession planning programmes.

Project Delivery

• Lead engineering aspects of airport development projects.
• Deliver infrastructure improvements and asset enhancement programmes.
• Support mobilisation and commissioning of new facilities and systems
• Provide technical input into business planning and operational decision making.

About You

You are an experienced engineering leader who combines technical expertise with strong commercial and people management skills. You thrive in environments where you can create something new, influence strategy and deliver tangible operational improvements.

Along with the opportunity to be part of a great team dedicated to ensuring DSA thrives, we can offer you:

• Leading defined benefit pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• 29 days annual leave (rising to 34 after 5 years) plus 8 bank holidays
• Eligibility for Shared Cost AVCs
• Relocation package up to £8.5K
• Broad range of family friendly workplace policies
• Health Cash Plan
• Cycle to work and home technology salary sacrifice schemes
• Wide range of employee discounts and wellbeing benefits
• Financial wellbeing support including affordable loansFree access to Occupational Health, counselling and physiotherapy

Address

Address
Civic Office
Waterdale
Doncaster
DN1 3BU