EMA to create more than 100 security jobs

East Midlands Airport (EMA) has announced a recruitment drive which could see it create more than 100 security jobs.

Aviation Security Officers (ASOs) are the public face of the organisation and play a key role in ensuring peoples’ smooth progress through the airport. At its busiest, over 20,000 people fly in and out of EMA each day, and the airport now says it wants to add 100-plus security officers to its ranks.

To keep the airport running night and day, ASOs work on shifts around the clock and play a vital role in ensuring people and goods get to and from their destinations.

Felicia Farrimond, senior recruitment and vetting co-ordinator (security), said: “East Midlands Airport is one of the region’s most high-profile businesses. For many people, the holiday starts at the airport and therefore it is essential that frontline staff make passengers feel welcome and at ease when passing through statutory security processes. As one of the UK’s most important cargo hubs, the smooth passage of goods moving through security onto aircraft is critical to the express freight market that the airport serves. With so much growth happening on the airport campus and nearby, this is an exciting time to be working at EMA.”

EMA is also looking to recruit a passenger services assistant to join the team responsible for supporting passengers with physical or hidden disabilities and a driver to work in its customer services team.