Senior Airspace & Flight Procedure Design Specialist

About the role

Serco is recruiting a Senior Airspace & Flight Procedure Design Specialist to provide senior technical leadership and subject matter expertise for the Sharjah Department of Civil Aviation (DCA). The role ensures that Sharjah's current and future operational needs are represented and integrated into UAE airspace modernisation, acting as the DCA's principal technical representative for airspace redesign, CTA and approach control services.

Key responsibilities

• Redesign and enhance the Dubai Control Area (CTA) and support the wider UAE airspace redesign programme over the next three years.
• Design and optimise airspace serving Sharjah aerodrome, approach and area control interfaces, and define and implement a Sharjah CTA and Approach Control service.
• Develop, coordinate, review and technically assure airspace concepts and flight procedure requirements, including ATS routes, SIDs, STARs, holding procedures, instrument approaches, PBN applications, surveillance minimum altitudes and AIP/AIRAC material.
• Ensure proposals are safe, workable, capacity-efficient and compatible with adjacent airspace, supported by data, modelling, simulation, safety assessment and stakeholder consultation, and approved through GCAA and certified Flight Procedure Design Service Provider arrangements.

Required profile

• Current or former Air Traffic Control Officer with a recognised ATCO licence or equivalent; substantial radar approach and/or area control experience is mandatory, aerodrome control experience highly desirable.
• Minimum 15 years of ATM/ANS experience, 8 years of operational ATC experience and 7 years of airspace and flight procedure design experience, including senior or lead responsibility.
• Demonstrable portfolio of airspace structures and procedures taken from concept through validation, approval, AIP publication and implementation.
• Experience with PBN SIDs, STARs, instrument approaches, ATS route design and complex terminal airspace, and with regulators, ANSPs, airlines, airports and certified FPD providers.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English; Middle East/UAE experience and experience establishing a new approach service or CTA are highly desirable.

Required skills

• Formal PANS-OPS training covering conventional and PBN procedures.
• Formal training in PBN airspace design or airspace concept development.
• Demonstrable competence under a recognised Flight Procedure Designer training and competency scheme, including OJT and recurrent training.