Fire, Health and Safety Business Partner Solutions – Infrastructure

London, England, United Kingdom

4/10/2025

Introduction

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.

Job Description

As the Fire, Health and Safety (FHS) Business Partner for Solutions - Infrastructure, you’ll play a crucial role in seeking out and implementing strategic initiatives, providing in-depth direction and support in delivering a deeper level of fire, health and safety advice to the H7 Programme Managers and Senior Project Managers. Your knowledge and experience will continue to improve the safety culture within Infrastructure by seeking out marginal gains, whilst ensuring the solid foundation of our safety management system is embedded. This will be even more important as we strengthen relationships with existing partners and build relationships with new ones as we move into a concentrated delivery phase.

Reporting to the Head of Health and Safety & Wellbeing Solutions – Infrastructure, you’ll work closely with your peers in the FHSW Team to learn and share initiatives, learning and good practice in construction safety whilst ensuring that the strategic objectives of the FHSW team are aligned to Infrastructure and delivered. You will be expected to develop and maintain effective strategic professional relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including designers, construction partners, Heathrow Programme and Senior Project Managers and other functions within Heathrow that have a role in delivering and maintaining our assets safely. On occasion, you may be required to support other BU’s within the FHSW Team as the needs of the business change.

To ensure our construction partners are complying with their duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, your role will involve ensuring 2 nd line of defence assurance is carried out.

Your role will involve

• Work with Fire, Health, Safety & Wellbeing team to ensure Heathrow’s FHS standards are developed, delivered and adopted by Infrastructure Solutions where required.
• Further build upon Infrastructure’s safety culture; seek innovation, health and safety training and initiatives, strategically promote a ‘Just Culture’ in line with Infrastructure Solutions being a Values led, learning function.
• Prioritise the teams site visit schedule by understanding the project complexities and risk by build relationships with strategic stakeholders.
• Steer incident investigations in a collaborative way that enables root cause to be determined and the learning shared across functions.
• Guide collaborative working between Infrastructure Solutions and other departments (e.g. Engineering, Operations) to ensure that more complex safety issues are managed appropriately.
• Provide in-depth health and safety advice to Programme Managers and peers, influence health and safety within supplier partners and the FHSW team.
• Steer on developing assurance plans for your reports to implement.
• Develop and lead Safety Improvement Plans.
• Develop others through coaching and mentoring. Develop, maintain and improve your own Fire, Health and Safety competencies.
• Ensure, where necessary, incidents are loaded and retrievable on Airsweb and ensure the First Alert process is managed correctly.
• Liaise with the Health and Safety Executive and other Regulators if required. Provide the Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing – Infrastructure Solutions and the wider FHSW team with updates on FHS performance.
  
  
  

These Skills Are Essential

• Safety professional with strong experience gained within a broad range of functions e.g. construction, transport, engineering etc.
• National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent).
• National Certificate in Fire Safety (or equivalent) would be an advantage.
• Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH).
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret and present data in a meaningful way.
• Excellent standard of written work and report writing.
• Excellent understanding of project management processes.
  
  
  

About 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 rewards

We 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 Location

Our 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 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 five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.