Job Description

This role offers an exciting opportunity to play a key part in strengthening risk management across Engineering and Baggage at Heathrow. As a trusted partner to the Asset Risk and Opportunity Manager, you will help embed robust risk processes, ensure high‑quality risk data, and support informed, risk‑based decision‑making. By analysing trends, developing predictive insights, and driving continuous improvement, you will directly contribute to our safety, reliability, and operational excellence—ensuring our management systems remain compliant and aligned to Heathrow’s strategic goals.

• Champion and embed Heathrow’s risk management approach across Engineering and Baggage by coaching and constructively challenging Risk Owners to ensure accuracy, consistency, and ownership.
• Foster a positive risk culture across internal teams, consultants, and contractors, ensuring risk‑based decisions support the delivery and maintenance of certified Management Systems (ISO 55000, 50000, 14000, 45000, 27000).
• Support Risk Owners in preparing, updating, and running risk models to inform anticipated outcomes and strategic decision‑making.
• Analyse, risk and control trends to provide data‑driven insights, identify emerging risks, and support continuous improvement across Engineering and Baggage.
• Facilitate collaborative workshops to promote consistency, transparency, and confidence in both risk processes and data quality.
• Lead risk governance and reporting activities, contribute risk expertise to cross‑functional projects, and deliver assurance reviews on high‑impact risks.

• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent training and experience.
• Strong understanding of how risk informs and supports certified Management Systems (e.g., ISO 55000, 50000, 14000, 45000, 27000).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex risk concepts into clear, actionable insights.

• Highly collaborative, with strong influencing skills and the ability to role‑model behaviours that support cultural and organisational change.

  Desirable

• Professional risk certification (e.g., IRM, APM) is highly desirable.
• Experience developing risk and assurance models for large organisations or similarly complex environments.

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 HeathrowWorking 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.