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Capacity Planner

MAG
Greater London
3 days ago
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Summary


Capacity Planner
Based at London Stansted Airport
Permanent role
Competitive salary + great benefits

Why MAG?


Every year, London Stansted Airport connects over 28 million passengers with more than 190 destinations across the globe. Part of the largest UK owned airport operator group, MAG, London Stansted Airport supports over 11,600 jobs onsite and generates around £7.75bn each year for the region. 

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. Youll also have access to some great benefits including: 

Flexible and generous company pension plan with various company contribution options (up to 8%) that you can change to suit your personal needs  24 days holiday plus bank holidays  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.

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