
Safety Investigation Officer London, England
Job description
The Airside Safety Investigation Officer is responsible for investigating all Airside occurrences and observations, helping to drive improvement in Airside Safety, and contributing to making a step change in Health, Safety & Environmental performance across the Airside Operation.
Your role will involve:
- Conducting accident, incident or near miss investigation in accordance with Heathrow airside safety procedures and other applicable legislation.
- Ensuring that the recommendations arising from reports and investigation are allocated to responsible managers, and performance against these tracked to completion.
- Providing management information arising from incident reports and safety observation data to enable the development of proactive safety improvement plans to be shared with the wider airside team.
- Producing communications material which reinforce key safety messages and promote safe behaviours on the airfield.
- Co-ordinating the completion of Airside Safety improvement initiatives and audit actions ensuring that action plans accurately reflect progress against key activities.
- Developing positive relationships with key stakeholders as part of safety investigations e.g., NATS, ground handlers.
- Developing and deliver activities which improve the safety culture within Airside Operations and within Team Heathrow more widely.
These skills are essential:
- A valid UK driving license- if successful you will require a medical assessment and driving test in order to obtain your airside driver’s permit.
- Understanding of the regulatory environment under which Heathrow operates, and practical application of relevant documentation, such as that produced by EASA and the CAA – UK Reg (EU) 376/2014’ and ‘UK Reg (EU) 139/2014).
- Ability to compose clear, concise, and technically accurate formal safety investigation reports in line with Just Culture principles.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships across multiple departments and Team Heathrow organisations.
- IT literate with the ability to operation and develop Sharepoint based reports systems, as well as Microsoft Office products to a good level.
Ideally, you’ll also have:
- Knowledge of Health, Safety & Environmental legislation.
- An understanding of Airside Operations.
