Job Description

The Surface Access Coordination Lead is responsible for ensuring the timely and integrated delivery of all Surface Access activities required to support the Development Consent Order (DCO) programme. The role provides clear coordination across consultants, statutory stakeholders, and internal teams, maintaining alignment on scope, schedule, assumptions, and interdependencies to keep Surface Access activity progressing in line with programme requirements.

Working closely with Surface Access, Design & Engineering, Consents, and wider programme functions, the postholder ensures that modelling inputs and outputs are robust, compliant, and suitable for inclusion within the Environmental Impact Assessment and the wider DCO submission. By driving clarity, consistency, and structured reporting, the role enables effective leadership decision‑making and helps ensure Surface Access remains on the DCO critical path.

Your role will involve

• Coordinate all surface access workstreams and team diaries to ensure timely, integrated delivery of activities supporting the DCO programme, including support to scope and assumption freeze milestones.
• Supporting, maintaining alignment across internal teams, consultants, and external stakeholders, providing clarity on scope, cost, schedule, dependencies, and delivery responsibilities.
• Act as the key interface between the Surface Access team and consultant partners, enabling efficient coordination and integrated working with Design & Engineering, Consents, Land & Property, and other cross ‑programme functions.
• Track deliverables, risks, issues, and resourcing requirements, providing regular progress reporting to client commercial teams, the Head of Surface Access Strategy, and the Surface Access Director.
• Ensure surface access deliverables are robust, auditable, and compliant with DCO and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) requirements, maintaining clear records of engagement and decision ‑making.
• Coordinate meetings, workshops, and governance forums, and prepare briefings and documentation for DCO ‑related statutory stakeholder engagement, providing clear and consistent communication across all parties.

These skills are essential

• Strong programme coordination or PMO experience on major infrastructure or planning programmes.
• Ability to manage multiple interfaces across technical, environmental, and planning teams.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with experience preparing reports, briefing papers, and stakeholder materials.
• Ability to support structured, compliant delivery in a regulated or planning ‑intensive environment

Ideally, you will also have

• Experience supporting DCO, EIA or large ‑scale transport/infrastructure projects.
• Understanding of surface access modelling or transport planning processes.
• Experience coordinating consultant ‑delivered work packages.

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.

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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.