Job Description
Do you see yourself running our Air Traffic Engineering team?
Have you got the knowledge, experience, and desire to be best in class at an award-winning airport?
About Your Airport
Newcastle is a multi-award-winning Airport that proudly connects the North East region to the world. In 2025, the Airport was recognised as ‘Best Airport in Europe’, in the 2 to 5 million passenger category, at the ASQ Awards for providing exceptional customer service.
Committed to a sustainable future, the Airport is on track to achieve Net Zero Carbon status by the year 2035 and has been recognised as a 'sustainability sector leader'. The business has its own solar farm that can provide 100% of its electricity on a sunny day and it is making significant investments to transition its vehicle fleet to electric models.
Over recent years more than 46,000 trees have been planted on Airport-owned land to support its carbon offset activities and enhance biodiversity.
About the role
You will lead the Air Traffic Engineering Department to ensure that a safe, customer focused, and compliant service is delivered to ensure that all CNS Equipment, AGL and other airport infrastructure are maintained and repaired.
The Senior Air Traffic Engineer will support the Head of Airside with the development of the long-term strategy for Air Traffic Engineering to ensure innovation, new technologies, and emerging regulations are combined to ensure the delivery of an efficient, safe and compliant service.
What will you be doing?
- Recruit, appraise, develop, and manage the Air Traffic Engineering team
- Be responsible for the daily operational output of Air Traffic Engineering
- Arrange watch rosters to ensure staff availability including on-call duties
- Co-ordinate and supervise all planned maintenance
- Lead, motivate, and manage by example; ensuring that all staff are aware of the appropriate performance standards, the expected standards of behaviour, and the expectations of our customers and key stakeholders
- Plan, control and manage cost budgets
- Coordinate and lead the Air Traffic Engineering element of CAA oversight audits
- Act as the point of contact with the CAA SRG in relation to Air Traffic Engineering activities, ensuring that effective dialogue and communication
- Support the delivery of ATS projects in relation to equipment upgrades and replacements
- Support the Head of Airside in delivering the departmental objectives
Key Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience as a qualified Air Traffic Engineer
- Proven Management Experience
- Communication and delegation skills
- Safety first attitude
- Customer focused mindset
- Operation of computer systems related to the provision of ATC services as well as common office software
Qualifications
- ATSEP (Air Traffic Safety Electronic Personnel) Qualified
- Accredited management qualifications would be an advantage, though not essential
Why come onboard?
Newcastle International Airport is a unique work environment where your actions really matter! The environment fosters a real passion for aviation operations and being best in class.
Just some of the benefits you can enjoy:
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Reduced parking charges – Park & Fly
- Car servicing and repairs
- Access to World Duty Free
- On-site occupational health support
- On-site physiotherapist
- Employee assistance programme support
- Employee discounts at airport retail/ catering outlets
- Free on-site car parking whilst at work
- Membership to our on-site gym
This post requires access through the Critical Part at the Airport and therefore in line with Department for Transport regulations; you will be required to demonstrate during the recruitment process that you have no relevant criminal record.
Newcastle International Airport Limited promotes the equality of opportunity.
Being part of the Disability Confident Commitment means that we want to ensure all our organisational policies and processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone. This includes our recruitment strategies, and we welcome applications from all prospective candidates.