Fire, Health & Safety Advisor - Infrastructure

As the Fire, Health and Safety (FHS) Advisor for Infrastructure Solutions, you will play an integral role in offering support, advice, and initiatives to enhance the safety culture within Infrastructure Solutions. This responsibility becomes even more significant as we strengthen relationships with existing partners and establish connections with new ones.

Reporting to the Fire, Health and Safety Business Partner for Infrastructure, you will collaborate closely with your peers in the FHSW Team to share knowledge and best practices, ensuring alignment and fulfillment of their Strategic Objectives. You are expected to cultivate and maintain effective professional relationships with various stakeholders, including designers, construction partners and their supply chain, Heathrow Project Managers, and other functions within Heathrow that contribute to the safe delivery and maintenance of our assets. Occasionally, you may be required to support other Business Units within the FHSW Team as business needs evolve.

Developing a thorough understanding of Heathrow’s plan for delivering the H7 capital plan will be essential to effectively manage Fire, Health, and Safety risks. This may involve performing assurance activities to provide accountable directors with confidence that risks are being managed to the highest practicable standards.

• Gaining a good understanding of the projects that will be delivered during the H7 Regulatory period and how that translates to health and safety.
• Gaining a good understanding of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and the duties placed upon Heathrow and those we appoint to carry out construction work.
• Working with Fire, Health, Safety & Wellbeing team to ensure Heathrow’s FHS standards are developed, delivered and adopted by Infrastructure Solutions where required.
• Organising and attend site visits (occasionally nights), build relationships with a variety of stakeholders i.e. from Directors to site operatives. 
• Leading and support incident investigations in a collaborative way that enables root cause to be determined and the learning shared across functions. 
• Supporting collaborative working between Infrastructure Solutions and other departments (e.g. Engineering, Operations) to ensure that more complex safety issues are managed appropriately.
• Providing health and safety advice to Project Managers and peers within supplier partners and FHSW teams.
• Supporting the development and implementation of Safety Improvement Plans.
• Understanding how to load and retrieve incidents on Airsweb.
• Liaising with the Health and Safety Executive and other Regulators if required.
• Providing the FHS Business Partner – Infrastructure Solutions and the wider FHSW team with updates on FHS performance.

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

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