Procedure Designer

CompanyNATS

LocationWhiteley, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/5/2026

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Occupation Type

Design occupations not elsewhere classified.

Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled

Sponsorship Salary Threshold

£41,700 (£21.38 per hour)

Standard minimum applies

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Description

Closing date - 16th February 2026

Salary - £51,577.33 - £68,769.77 (This increases after attaining APD status)

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights per year and offer 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 at the same time retaining the fantastic business and customers we have today.

Job Purpose

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

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 co-ordinate 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 at 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

Please note - we may also consider applications from passionate individuals looking to train in this area.

Additional Vacancy Information

Although listed as Whiteley, this vacancy can be very flexible on base location.

We have also 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 a competitive salary (which will increase on attaining APD status) you'll also benefit from a range of other benefits: generous leave, defined contribution pension scheme, retail discounts, wellness support, learning and development and many more. for more information on what NATS can offer you please visit - Why NATS? - NATS

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.