ENAIRE launches a new call for 149 air traffic control positions

Last week the Official State Gazette (BOE) published the call for applications for 149 new ENAIRE air traffic control positions. With this call, the national air navigation service provider – a state-owned entity under the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility – is once again promoting the incorporation of new air traffic control professionals.

This strategy to reinforce the public air traffic controller workforce, already included in ENAIRE’s strategic plan, the 2025 Flight Plan, will receive fresh impetus with the organisation’s new strategic plan, the 2030 Flight Plan, now in its final stages of preparation.

ENAIRE is thus continuing to invest in providing itself with the necessary human resources to meet demand for traffic in Spain, which has been growing at double-digit rates since the crisis triggered across the aviation sector by the impact of the COVID pandemic. This increase in air operations managed in our airspace is significantly higher than the European average. So far in 2025, air traffic managed by ENAIRE has grown by 5% compared with the record year 2024, with new all-time records set in 2025 of more than 8,100 daily flights in summer.

The Official State Gazette published the conditions for this call, with the registration period running from 21 November to 12 December 2025

Technical and operational improvements

However, resizing the workforce is not, and will not be, the only measure adopted by ENAIRE to maintain the highest standards of service quality in terms of safety, reduced delays and contributing to the sustainability of air transport. The introduction of new airspace procedures and the implementation of new technical–operational functionalities in the air traffic management system, together with new advanced flow-management tools, are also essential levers for strengthening the objective of achieving maximum efficiency in the service provided by ENAIRE in a context of sustained post-pandemic air traffic growth.

In this regard, ENAIRE’s director general, Enrique Maurer, strongly supports “both the call for 149 new air-traffic control posts and the constant effort we are making to introduce procedural improvements in airspace restructuring and technological innovation”.

“Over the past two years alone, ENAIRE will have created a total of 307 new air-traffic control positions – 158 new controller positions were created in the 2024 call. Strengthening the workforce, together with the technical–operational and airspace-restructuring measures implemented and planned in the new Strategic Plan currently being developed, will allow us to deliver our service with the highest guarantees of safety and efficiency”, explains Enrique Maurer.

Selection process

The call for applications is now available on ENAIRE's website, https://empleo.enaire.es/, and applications may be submitted from Friday 21 November.

An updated syllabus has been published on ENAIRE’s website to prepare for the knowledge test, which will take place together with the English-level test and the aptitude and personality tests in Phase 1. The syllabus is available in the List of Occupations/Navigation III Agreement/Air Traffic Controller section.

Once the selection process is successfully completed, and as a requirement for employment, applicants must have an air traffic controller licence or a student air traffic controller licence. Candidates without experience must complete an initial specialised training course that will qualify them to work as air traffic controllers.

Once hired by ENAIRE, they must pass a unit training course with an estimated duration of 3 to 6 months, depending on the unit, which will allow them to provide air traffic controller services at their assigned posting.