Head of Operational Planning

**_Your new professional journey starts here_**
- Your next destination: lux-Airport - Findel - Luxembourg

Do you know that lux-Airport is the operating company of Luxembourg airport, providing direct flight services to 89 destinations and employing 330 people?
- In 2021 and despite the health crisis, we welcomed 1.4 million passengers (compared to 4.4 million passengers in 2019) and we have the ambition to increase this number and continue to develop our activities

To achieve this goal, we are looking to hire immediately for our Operations Department a : HEAD OF OPERATIONAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT (M/F/d)

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**_What you will be doing :_**
- _- Developing the department as a key service unit to support the various business units to support a strategic approach to the team
- Developing and coordinating a team of experts in different operational areas, including winter operations, operational systems and project managers.
- Establishing and managing the department's budget while developing the department's activities
- Ensuring compliance of operations with the EASA and Luxembourg Airport certification basis, taking into account current regulations and future developments, and ensuring that key plans (emergency plan, terminal evacuation plan, BCP,...) remain up to date, are known and tested
- Further develop the operations control role to include short and long term forecasting but also the development of an information based decision culture (including data capture, simulation,) and the resulting short term capability development. Particular attention is paid to the airport's slot allocation.
- Being responsible for the preparation of operational forecasts for daily, weekly and seasonal planning and operational statistics
- Leading the short-term (seasonal and five-year) capacity planning of the operational infrastructure, creating optimization plans and linking them to the airport and terminal master planning.
- Supervising/coordinating/align the various operational projects, projects with operational impact as well as lead/participate in projects that are more complex.
- Managing and developing the various contracts and service level agreements with key commercial and government partners.

**MUST HAVE**
**REQUIREMENTS**

**_What you will need :_**

**Education / training**:

- Postgraduate degree (Master) or equivalent experience

**Experience**:

- 10 years of relevant experience in the airport or aviation field

**Languages**:

- French: fluent in speaking and writing
- English and/or German : fluent in speaking

**NICE TO HAVE**
**REQUIREMENTS**
- Knowledge of all aspects of airport operations, relevant international and national ICAO, EASA standards and recommendations, their interpretation and industry best practices**WE OFFER**

**_What we offer :_**
- A full-time contract, with an attractive salary, based on your profile and experience, including fringe benefits ;
- A chance to work for an internationally-known and fast-growing Luxembourgish company ;
- A professional opportunity in the field of aviation, a high-tech sector ;
- A pleasant, dynamic and motivating work environment, allowing you to flourish in your career.

**REQUIRED**LANGUAGES**:
To be considered for this position it is crucial that you have knowledge of the following languages

**French**

**Read** C1 Advanced
- **Write** C1 Advanced
- **Speak** C1 Advanced
- **English**

**Read** C1 Advanced
- **Write** C1 Advanced
- **Speak** C1 Advanced
- **MINIMUM REQUIRED**

**EDUCATION**

Master

**REQUIRED WORK EXPERIENCE**

**IN YEARS**

10 or more years

**DETAILS**

**EMPLOYMENT TYPE**
- Full-Time**CONTRACT TYPE**
- Permanent contract**HOURS PER WEEK**
- 40**LOCATION**

**COUNTRY**
- Luxembourg**CITY**
- FINDEL