Safety Investigation Officer

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.