Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) Lead Engineer

Role overview

Engineering leadership and design

• Lead AGL engineering activities and guide engineers, designers, consultants, contractors, and specialist vendors.
• Set technical review procedures, design requirements, delivery standards, and governance.
• Review lighting designs, reports, drawings, specifications, calculations, contractor submissions, photometric calculations, layouts, and system performance.
• Verify compliance with ICAO Annex 14, FAA Advisory Circulars, client requirements, airport operational standards, and safety requirements.
• Review regulators, lighting controls, cabling, transformers, vaults, equipment rooms, grounding, lightning protection, and power reliability.
• Coordinate with electrical distribution, civil works, pavement, drainage, communications, and airport operational facilities.
• Coordinate AGL requirements for runways, taxiways, rapid exit taxiways, cargo aprons, aircraft stands, and maintenance areas.
• Review pavement interfaces and installation requirements for in-pavement lights, ducts, pits, chambers, and cable routes; support phased implementation.
• Support installation, testing, commissioning, and operational readiness; review shop drawings, submittals, method statements, RFIs, and technical queries.
• Inspect installation quality and witness tests, including insulation resistance, cable, circuit, lighting intensity, and control-system tests.
• Coordinate integrated testing, approvals, technical workshops, audits, and operational readiness with airport stakeholders and regulators.
• Maintain records, prepare reports and recommendations, report progress and risks, and support manuals, asset registers, and handover documentation.

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Aviation Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of AGL engineering experience covering design review, installation, and commissioning.
• Experience on major international airport, airfield, or aviation infrastructure projects.
• Experience with runway and taxiway lighting, approach lighting, apron infrastructure, AGL controls, and airfield electrical networks.
• Experience in design review, construction supervision, testing, commissioning, airport readiness, and stakeholder coordination.
• Strong knowledge of AGL design principles, ICAO Annex 14 Volume I, FAA AC 150/5340 and 150/5345 series, IEC standards, and airport safety requirements.
• Experience with AGL design software, lighting calculations, and technical analysis; knowledge of control systems and monitoring platforms.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder management skills; ability to manage complex airfield systems.

Preferred qualifications

• A master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Airport Systems Engineering is advantageous.
• PE, CEng, or equivalent professional registration is desirable.
• Airport expansion or greenfield development, EASA requirements, CAT I/II/III systems, A-SMGCS interfaces, FIDIC, and Design-Build/EPC/PMC delivery experience are preferred.