Engineering Resilience Manager

hackajob is collaborating with Heathrow to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Heathrow Engineering is seeking a Resilience Manager to support the development of contingencies and prepare Engineering colleagues for responding to future incidents. This established role offers a wide remit and significant influence, involving both Engineering activities and the wider airport operation.

Please note that this role requires CTC clearance - please only apply if you have been a UK resident for the past 3 years.

• Ensure Engineering has the right plans and capabilities in place, exercising these to provide resilience across the operation.
• Support wider Engineering colleagues during incident responses and conduct debriefs to identify learnings for future resilience improvements.
• Partner with the engineering community to identify critical assets and processes, evaluate risks, and establish monitoring, control procedures, and contingency plans.
• Plan and execute multi-agency live exercises.
• Coordinate the contingency response to planned events involving external emergency services, internal responders, and other transport providers.
• Brief senior leaders on contingencies for major asset replacement projects and develop contingency plans for key Heathrow assets such as the firemain and chilled water system.
• Support all aspects of Crisis Management within Engineering, including developing training and exercising programs.

• Hold a full UK driving licence.
• Proficient IT skills to develop key documents and train colleagues.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, including in high‑pressure situations.
• Experience in project managing improvement works.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentational skills.
• Event management experience, similar to running an exercise.

• Further education in an Engineering field or a sound understanding of emergency response and crisis management.