Airport Manager – Scotland
Do you want to lead, motivate and inspire others to succeed?
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Worldwide Airports Directorate in this operational role as a Airport Manager – Scotland!
This is a crucial role, supporting the Regional Airports Manager – UK & Ireland, by providing safety and operational oversight, and other critical functions, all whilst leading and empowering multiple suppliers and partners, across 4 airports in Scotland with a combined total of over 200 weekly departures.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the operational performance delivery of all suppliers at your airports.
- Support your Deputy Airport Manager in the delivery of agreed targets and goals in addition to the control of expenditure.
- Be accountable for all required safety activities in your airports, ensuring they are fulfilled in a set and timely manner. This includes (but is not limited to) LPM, Audits, Station Emergency Response Procedures, and BCPs.
- Act as the Local Emergency Coordinator (LEC).
- Represent British Airways’ interests within your airports; AOC, Monthly Airport Authority Account Meetings, etc.
- Ensure that all airport activities are undertaken in compliance with BA’s corporate security and safety instructions, local security standards.
- Deputise for your APM colleagues during absence, maintaining effective links with relevant Head Office departments and service partners for day‑to‑day operational issues.
- Ensure that the quality of service delivered is in line with service level and contractual agreements. Obtain the highest level of performance and motivation through successful communication and influencing skills.
- Ensure all local resources are utilised in such a manner that customer satisfaction and revenue is maximised, and efficiency is increased within given constraints.
What you’ll bring to British Airways:
- Desire for continued learning and development in the role, and ability to apply this to grow and enhance your skills and capabilities.
- Lead from the front, and bring a positive, can‑do approach to the role, demonstrated through your operational and customer experience focus.
- Inquisitive and tenacious approach to problem solving, demonstrating the ability to quickly grasp new subject matter.
- Ability to collaborate with others to achieve common goals, drawing from experience of working cross‑functionally, in an open and collegiate manner, with both internal and external colleagues.
- Strong commitment to the role and willingness to persevere.
- Self‑motivation and ability to motivate both internal and external teams.
- True advocate and ambassador for British Airways across Scotland.
Your experience:
Airport operations experience, or exposure to operational decision making.
Experience of managing suppliers in an operational environment.
A proven track record, demonstrating experience of decision making whilst balancing the complex needs of the operation, our people and the business.
What we offer:
We believe that all the people who work with us should feel valued for the part they play.
From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted Hotline airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.
At British Airways you have the chance to take on new challenges and move forward in a way that feels right for you. We encourage all those who work for us to consider opportunities across our business to help you develop and progress.
Inclusion & Diversity
At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work.
Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to a culture where everyone can be themselves. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain.
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