Fire, Health & Safety Advisor London, England
Job description
Health and Safety at Heathrow is like nowhere else. The safety of our colleagues and passengers is a core value, we all strive to ensure anyone who works or travels through the airport, arrives at their destination or returns home safe and well.
We are seeking two Fire, Health and Safety (FHS) Advisors to work with the Commercial or Services functions at our airport. Helping colleagues and third parties to identify and manage risks, track and review safety performance and continuously improve.
In these exciting and varied roles, you will report to a FHS Business Partner and be accountable for delivering Health & Safety advice and assurance across either Commercial (Including Retail, Property, Surface Access (including Heathrow Express) and office-based colleagues) or our Services function (third party providers). Building effective relationships with stakeholders, including contractors and business partners as well as the wider Fire, Health, Safety and Wellbeing Team will be key to your success. You’ll also get involved in the delivery of improvement projects, all whilst developing your Health and Safety career in this dynamic safety environment. There are plenty of training and personal development opportunities available such as achieving IOSH Chartered Membership.
- Coaching on best practise regarding identifying, conducting, and reviewing risk assessments, providing expert advice, supporting and coaching to ensure appropriate accident and close call investigation and overseeing the quality and close out of investigations
- Using your relationship-building and influencing skills to promote the delivery and adoption of Heathrow’s safety management system in your business area including the understanding and implementation of Standards across a wide range of risks
- Encouraging the function to ensure a safety culture is maintained and where possible improved upon, to allow our safety procedures and responses to be the very best they can be. Alongside the development and implementation of Safety Improvement Plans (SIP)
- Assisting stakeholders with defining the health and safety accountabilities for all roles, defining the resources needed to conduct incident investigations and identifying training needs to enhance knowledge where necessary. And then being able to provide technical advice in relation to more complex technical enquiries
- Assisting with Health and Safety assurance processes; driving the delivery of actions identified, escalating where action is delayed and providing advice on how to achieve compliance with fire, health and safety standards
- Providing reliable analysis of data to identify areas for improvement and then coach stakeholders to ensure they drive the delivery of those improvements. Also using such data to provide performance reports and Lessons Learned documents
- Safety Professional specifically within a 24/7, high-volume footfall environment, e.g. transport, manufacturing
- National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
- Experience of internal assurance against defined standards to identify meaningful improvements.
- Good communication and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation, ability to build meaningful relationships, including effective stakeholder management within a multi-hazard environment
- Sound analytical skills with the ability to interpret and present data in a meaningful way.
- Practical knowledge of running incident and accident investigations and complex risk assessments.
Ideally you also have:
- National Certificate in Fire Safety (or equivalent)
- Holding or working towards the National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent)
- Relevant H&S experience for the specific roles available
Heathrow brings the world closer together. Our airport facilitates the global travel and trade that keeps the economy moving. It’s a place like no other – a city within a city – where colleagues connect around a common goal, giving our passengers the best airport service in the world.
There is a world of opportunity at Heathrow. You’ll reach your full potential within our inclusive and supportive culture, whilst helping us to deliver our ambitious plans. Not only are we growing to welcome millions more passengers each year, we’re also transforming our industry. Sustainability is at the heart of Heathrow and we’re leading global efforts on decarbonisation, so that aviation continues to be a force for good in our world.
Taking the journey with us means living our values. Doing the right thing. Keeping everyone safe. Working together. Treating everyone with respect. Giving excellent service. Improving every day. Our ever-changing airport runs on teamwork and creativity. A career at Heathrow is welcoming, diverse, challenging, exciting, and rewarding.
Join Heathrow and grow your career in an airport that matters to millions.
Our rewards
We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits, along with performance-based annual bonuses, our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And we’ll provide learning and development opportunities to help you reach your full potential.
Working Location
Our agile approach offers the opportunity to combine home working with meetings, events and training at the airport. All roles involve some on-site working each week, so you’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.
Sustainable Travel to work
Heathrow’s Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.
Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With four diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.
