Fire, Health and Safety Advisor

Job title:

Fire, Health and Safety Advisor

Company

Heathrow Airport

Job description

Job Description:Heathrow aims to lead in airport safety, ensuring everyone can travel safely. The Health and Safety Advisers play a key role in supporting business areas to manage risks, understand their safety culture, and continuously improve. Reporting to the Fire, Health and Safety Business Partner, the Advisor must provide expert Health, Safety, and Fire advice. They will build strong relationships with stakeholders, including operational safety leads, Trade Union H&S Representatives, and the wider FHS Team.By understanding business objectives and strategic plans, the Advisor offers guidance and assurance to Business Unit managers and Accountable Directors through effective Safety Governance.The Advisor also manages various FHS projects to achieve Safety strategic goals.Responsibilities:

• Ensuring your business area understands Heathrow’s standards in respect to working conditions, equipment and welfare arrangements and is compliant with them and conducting and reviewing risk assessments and implementing the controls required.
• Conducting FHS audits and assurance checks within the business, drive the delivery of actions identified, escalate where action is delayed and advice on alternative mitigation measures.
• Supporting the delivery and adoption of Heathrow’s safety management system in business areas.
• Supporting your business areas to define FHS accountabilities for all roles, including accountabilities for the oversight and assurance of third party FHS performance.
• Establishing strong working relationships, particularly with Trade Unions, to ensure effective BU FHS governance and collaboration.
• Providing advice and coaching to Safety Leads and Operational Managers on good incident investigation process and reporting.
• Supporting your business area to identify their training needs, based on an assessment of risk and accountabilities.
• Supporting your business area to understand its safety culture and, using the continuous improvement toolkit, develop action plans to strengthen maturity.

Qualifications:

• Experienced safety professional with expertise in managing risk in large-scale operational safety environment.
• Experience in working with senior leadership teams -influencing and driving change.
• Holds or is working towards a National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent).
• Demonstrates a proven track record of effective stakeholder management in a unionized environment.

Ideally, you’ll have

• Nebosh Certificate
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret and present data meaningfully, and has a good understanding of project management processes, emphasising continuous improvement.

#LI-HybridAbout Us:There’s something so special about working at the world’s most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.Every day, you’ll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.Join us on that journey and we’ll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there’s no place like Heathrow.Our rewardsWe offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer 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 of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.Working LocationOur Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.Sustainable Travel to workHeathrow’s sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.Equal OpportunitiesAs 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.About the Team:People are at the heart of Heathrow. Not just the millions of passengers who travel, trade, shop, eat, connect and explore with us every year, but also the thousands of colleagues who go the extra mile to give every one of them the best airport service in the world. In the People team, we partner with people across our business to help to make Heathrow a place where everyone is accepted for who they are and can achieve their best.We’re a community of human resources and health and safety professionals, encompassing all aspects of HR and wellbeing. Whether your passion is in business partnering, reward, learning and development, or any other specialist area, you’ll be part of a team creating and delivering Heathrow’s innovative People Strategy. We are committed to being a truly inclusive organisation that represents the diversity of the local community at every level.There’s no place like Heathrow – for the buzz, for the variety, for the sense of belonging and for the chance to go on a really fulfilling career journey. We’re passionate about our colleagues’ experience, making Heathrow a great place to work and creating careers, not just jobs.

Expected salary

Location

Heathrow, Greater London

Job date

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 01:29:34 GMT

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