Airport Manager
What the work is
Manages the daily operations of an airport and ensures its compliance with aviation policies, procedures and regulations.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Manages the daily operations of an airport and ensures compliance with aviation policies, procedures and regulations
- Plans, manages and monitors the maintenance and development of airport infrastructure
- Manages and improves airport operations and processes, and implements safety protocols to ensure the security and safety of the airport
- Manages emergency operations and addresses problems that arise at the airport or with aircraft
- Reviews aircraft accident reports
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a fictional regional emergency management office preparing for storm season. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A flood plan you wrote months ago works on the day and nobody has to improvise
- A town you helped through a disaster invites you back for the rebuild
- You bring three agencies into one room and they leave with a shared plan
Hard days
- Phones ring all night and you must make decisions with only half the facts
- Preparing for events everyone hopes will never happen, and not being thanked when they do not
- Competing agencies each sure that their priority should come first
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 149931, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.