Rail Compliance Manager

This is a chance to build your career in an organisation that matters to millions. To join a city within a city – to create great experiences for the 210,000 (and counting) passengers who pass through our doors each day. Life with us means exploring unlimited opportunities. And making a real difference to people who are travelling to all sorts of places for all sorts of different reasons.  

Heathrow is the UK's premier international airport and one of the world’s major hub airports, flying people for business, tourism and to visit friends and relatives around the world. We provide the facilities and services for over 80 airlines flying around 78 million passengers a year to over 180 destinations worldwide and play an important economic role connecting the whole of the UK to global growth. As one of the largest single site employers there are over 76,000 people working at Heathrow, for over 400 companies, working together to achieve our vision of giving passengers the best airport service in the world. Heathrow is like a small city – fast moving, diverse, forward thinking – right at the heart of the nation’s global connections and with a world of opportunity.

Join us as a Rail Compliance Manager, and you’ll have the chance to work on systems that shape not only our airport, but also the experiences of countless passengers. For this role, we are looking for a person who has experience of compliance systems within the rail industry in infrastructure, rolling stock or operations.

Our rewards: 

As well as competitive salaries, we’re committed to providing a whole host of great benefits that make this an even more rewarding place to work. They include an excellent pension scheme, life assurance, access to private health insurance. We also have a range of initiatives designed to help people in our surrounding communities get to and from work cost-effectively and sustainably, from free travel on local buses through to subsidised rail fares. Not only that, when you get here, we’ll nurture your skills and do all we can to help you reach your full potential.  

Be part of the 78 million passenger journeys we make happen each year. An incredibly important part. 

Your role will involve:

·Developing and leading a robust and clear compliance and assurance regime to meet legislative and business needs to ensure cost, performance and risk can be handled effectively

·Being responsible for the management of external specialists and the influence of internal partners to drive forward risk based decision making

·Undertaking incident / accident reviews relating to rail assets and processes and implement recommendations with
stakeholders

·Ensuring effective arrangements are defined and implemented to support business continuity in the rail area, from employee shortage, supplier shortcomings, equipment loss to major outage to ensure that the impact on Heathrow operations are minimised and managed appropriately.  Integrate rail business continuity arrangements with the airport and TOC’s so far as is practical

·Be accountable for the Rail SMS and its ongoing development ensuring it is fit for purpose, including the review and revision of procedures, work instructions etc. Supporting and advising the rail asset managers in developing, implementing and continually improving their processes and procedures to support compliance with the Rail SMS, Health, Safety, Security and Environmental Policies.

·Ensuring that changes to industry related legislation, standards and information supplied from other sources are reviewed to establish how they impact the rail business

We’re looking for people who have:

·An engineering honours degree or similar in relevant discipline or equivalent experience

·A good level of experience working in a regulated industry at a senior level, preferably rail

·A professional qualification in HSQE discipline or similar

·Strong interpersonal, written, presenting and spoken communication skills

·An understanding and experience of quality and risk management

Join us, and you’ll have everything you need to shine and explore the countless career destinations that are available here.

As an equal opportunities employer, we proactively look to employ people who are as diverse as our passengers and all the people who live in our surrounding boroughs. It’s why we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – at Heathrow, we’re driven by inclusivity and we celebrate individuality.  #LI-POST