This website should be your first port of call for all new vacancies: they will be featured here as soon as they go ‘live’. We also advertise the same opportunities, usually in the national and regional press, or in specialist and trade magazines. If you know the sort of job you are interested in applying for, you can use the RSS feed/personalised log-in on this website to register your interest. When a position becomes vacant, you will receive a notification that we are advertising.

We do not have a scheme for an annual graduate intake, but we do recruit individual graduates with varying levels and types of work experience for specific vacancies. These will be advertised on this website and in relevant publications.

We would prefer to receive applications for actual published vacancies. However, we are always pleased when people take a serious interest in working here and so we would invite you to use the RSS feed/personalised log-in on this website to register your interest. When a position becomes vacant, you will receive a notification that we are advertising. We do have a number of frequently advertised opportunities for key roles which are recruited for on a regular basis. These are listed in the answer to the next question. If your background and experience match one of these roles, we are eager for you to contact us immediately.

These are key roles which are recruited for on a regular basis. If your background and experience match one of these roles, we are eager for you to contact us immediately.

Airworthiness Surveyors
Inspector ATS – Ops
Consumer Affairs Officer, Air Transport Users Council
Flight Operations Inspector & Flight Operations (Training) Inspector
Licensing Assistant / Officer
Licensing Standards Inspector
Medical Officer

Other Air Navigations Services Providers (ANSPs), such as National Air Traffic Services (NATS) will be able to advise you regarding ATCO opportunities and training schemes. Once you are an experienced ATC specialist, the CAA offers plenty of opportunities for you to apply your knowledge within our Air Safety and Airspace Regulation business areas.

Anyone can learn to fly privately. Our Personnel Licensing team at Gatwick will be able to advise you on the requirements for gaining the necessary licences. To fly commercially you would need to ask the individual airlines about their training schemes. The same applies to all flight and cabin crew opportunities.

In general the nature of our work requires either particular experience or a long-term commitment to ongoing training once you have joined, so in most areas it is not possible to offer work experience.

However, our Consumer Protection business area normally accepts a Travel and Tourism degree student on a 48 week placement once a year. The student is usually part way through their University course and this placement forms part of their degree studies. As you might imagine, there is a lot of competition for this placement - selection generally occurs in January of each year.

In addition, from time to time there are opportunities for school students to undertake unpaid work experience within our Gatwick-based Air Safety Regulation departments, as part of their school-sponsored work experience programme. These are normally of one week’s duration. The school’s Head Teacher should make the request for student work experience directly to our HR Operations Department, based at Aviation House, Gatwick.