Procedure Designer

NATS is the UK's leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights per year and offering a wide range of commercial solutions to over 30 countries internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe. NATS Services operates as part of the NATS group, focusing on business development, strategic partnerships, and business ventures with a capability to respond to the market for new airspace users, whilst retaining the fantastic business and customers we have today.

The Procedure Designer develops and delivers Instrument Flight Procedure (IFP) design including approach and departure procedures to International, Regional and National regulatory design and aircraft safety standards. Other duties include:

• Design Instrument Flight Procedures (IFP) to ICAO PANS OPS and other Regional or National criteria.
• Follow Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS) to International, Regional and National regulations.
• Offer realistic, safe, and compliant technical advice to customers, sponsors, regulators, management, the public and other stakeholders on IFP and related issues including airport safeguarding, airport development and airspace design.
• Establish customer relationships and effective requirements capture for IFP designs, ensuring mutual benefit and customer satisfaction.
• Apply Quality Management System (QMS) within all design work and contribute to development, maintenance, and improvement of QMS under leadership of the Principal Procedure Designer and the Design Quality Specialist.
• Ensure safety and compliance of all procedures and deliverables via Safety Management System (SMS) relating to IFP design and advice, contribution to projects, programmes, and contracts, robust safety cases, project deliverables and working practices.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• UK Approved Procedure Designer (APD) or experience in line with requirements of CAP785A to attain UK APD status.
• Instrument Flight Procedure design experience using ICAO criteria.
• Qualifications and/or experience using CAD software i.e., AutoCAD Map, Bentley MicroStation.
• Geographic, survey, terrain and topographical data management and data handling in an aeronautical safety management environment (e.g., IFP design).
• Operational Aviation Experience and knowledge of coordinate systems, aeronautical data and information e.g., maps, charts and electronic drawings and lists.
• Experience and knowledge of various maps, charts, and digital data formats enabling procedures to be translated to a format that airborne FMS systems understand.
• Capable of applying mathematics to solve criteria-based problems, to at least GCSE or secondary school standards.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Desirable skills:

• FPDAM procedure design system.
• Direct liaison with airport management, ATC management, aircraft operators or state regulators.
• Development of Quality Assurance / Quality Control processes.

Although listed as Whiteley, this vacancy is flexible on base location. We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements. We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally. In addition to competitive salary (which will increase on APD status for this position), you'll also benefit from a range of other benefits: generous leave, defined contribution pension scheme, voluntary benefits, retail discounts, wellness support, further learning and development.

If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe - we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.