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NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights each year. It provides air traffic control services from two control centres supporting airports all around the UK, as well as 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.
Job purpose
This role is part of NATS’ Air Traffic Management (ATM) Validation Team, responsible for planning, executing, and reporting on assigned tasks in order to provide user-centric validation assurance in support of the delivery of NATS’ Long-Term Investment Plan (LTIP), SESAR led Research & Development and external business.
The role holder will be assigned tasks and activities across several work packages and needs to be flexible in approach to work and able to travel to undertake activities at any NATS site which may be overseas.
Duties include but not limited to
- Contributes to the provision of independent user-led validation assurance to give confidence that changes will meet the acceptance criteria
- Lead the planning and delivery of ATM Validation tasks and activities as directed
- Helps anticipate and solve routine and non-routine technical problems and suggests appropriate improvements to methods and analysis
- Identifies conflicts and escalates concerns and issues as appropriate to the relevant task manager, team leader or project manager
- Contributes to continuous improvement, proactively suggesting appropriate improvements to processes and activities
- Supports less experienced colleagues. For example, this may be in the form of supervision and guidance of new graduates or industrial placement students, providing on the job training and knowledge transfer
- Contributes to continuous improvement, proactively suggesting appropriate improvements to processes and activities
- Develops and maintains technical and professional expertise and applies this appropriately to tasks
Qualifications skills
- Honours degree in a numerate subject (which could be scientific or business oriented) or equivalent (e.g. other qualifications or relevant work experience)
- Good understanding of Validation principles and methodologies and the ability to apply these to multiple customer areas
- Ability to produce well documented, high-quality work, and appreciate when work is of a sufficient standard
- Good communication and presentation skills with an ability to engage and influence peers and managers
- Good team working skills with an ability to appreciate different points of view. Can support less experienced colleagues
- An ability to actively contribute in an effective team culture, by showing a willingness to participate, supporting goals and responsibilities of the team
- Effective time management capability with an ability to identify and balance competing priorities
- Good analytical, financial awareness, problem solving and decision-making skills
Additional vacancy information
In addition to a competitive salary that’s regularly reviewed, NATS offers an excellent range of benefits which includes a company performance related pay scheme, voluntary benefits and retail discounts, generous leave entitlement and a defined contribution pension scheme. Find out more here.
NATS have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely. We also welcome discussions on flexible and part-time working arrangements.
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.
