Job Description

Join Heathrow's Airside Engineering team and play a vital role in keeping one of the world's busiest airports moving. You'll maintain and optimise critical airside assets through planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring essential systems operate safely, reliably, and efficiently around the clock. Alongside maintenance activities, you'll contribute to engineering projects, asset renewals, and continuous improvement initiatives, working with a highly skilled team dedicated to operational excellence.

Salary: starting from £46,345 – £49,584 (depending on experience), with structured progression linked to technical competency development.

Shift allowance: £6,624
Shift Pattern: 4 on, 4 off (2 days and 2 nights, 12-hour shifts).

• Help deliver an exceptional customer experience by maintaining and optimising Heathrow's critical airside assets, including floodlighting towers, Fixed Electrical Ground Power (FEGP), Stand Entry Guidance Systems (SEGS), and Aeronautical Ground Lighting (AGL).
• Carry out planned preventative and reactive maintenance activities to ensure assets operate safely, efficiently, and reliably.
• Diagnose faults, investigate performance issues, and implement effective solutions to improve asset reliability and operational performance.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and asset histories to support compliance, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Promote a strong safety culture by identifying hazards, managing risks, and ensuring safe systems of work are followed at all times.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, sharing best practice and supporting the ongoing enhancement of engineering standards and operational excellence.

You must hold a recognised NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) multi-skilled engineering qualification with both practical and technical competency, or a recognised indentured apprenticeship in a relevant engineering discipline.

Accepted qualifications include:

• Engineering Maintenance (Electrical and Mechanical pathways)
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Electromechanical Engineering
• Mechatronic Engineering
• Controls Engineering
• Electrical Installation (including AM2)

Please note: Standalone qualifications such as BTECs, HNCs, HNDs, or degrees are not considered equivalent to a practically assessed NVQ Level 3 qualification and can only be accepted when supported by a relevant NVQ.

You will also have:

• Full UK driving licence including the ability to obtain and maintain airside licences and permits.
• Strong hands-on experience, gained within an engineering environment.
• Analytical thinking and sound problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritise in a complex and fast-paced setting.

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 come home 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

This is an airport-based position. Every day, you will play a critical role in helping us to give our passengers the best airport service in the world.

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, and through our diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.