Location: Heathrow Airport
Contract: Permanent
Annual Salary is £30,592.87 FTE, rising to at least £32,785.75 FTE after 2 years’ service
What hours are available?
Core Combination (Full-Time): A mix of early shifts (starting as early as 04:00), late shifts (finishing as late as 23:00), and some night shifts (any time between 19:00 and 07:00).
Early (Full-Time): Shifts start as early as 04:00 (finishing between 12:45 and 14:30)
Late (Full-Time): Shifts start between 12:15 and 14:30 (finishing between 21:00 and 23:00)
Once you’ve completed your training, you’ll know your shifts 12 months in advance, so you can plan around them. Swaps are often possible, providing even greater flexibility, but it's important that you're available for all shifts on the pattern you apply for.
Like everyone here, you‘ll be passionate about creating the best Heathrow experience for all our passengers. Throughout each shift, you’ll be greeting people, patrolling the airport, monitoring secure areas and generally putting everyone at ease.
You’ll also be carrying out searches and safety checks on passengers, colleagues, and the items they bring through the airport. Our Security Officers only search people of their own gender, of course. Which is why we recruit separately for male and female roles.
Yours will be the friendly face that offers passengers a warm welcome as well as a constant reassuring presence, alert to everything that's going on around you, ready to spot potential threats and responding rapidly if and when you do.
- A warm, engaging personality and positive, friendly approach
- Sharp attention to detail
- Fluency in written and spoken English – additional languages are a bonus
- The physical fitness to cope with long periods of standing, sitting, bending and walking
- Full colour vision and hearing that meets our required standard
- You must be 18 or older at the time of applying
- A UK resident of three years standing, with the right to work in the UK
- Happy to complete our pre-employment medical, criminal record and counter-terrorism checks – this usually takes 8–15 weeks, depending on your personal history
- Available to complete full-time training for your first six weeks, even if you've chosen to work part-time thereafter
What you can expect in return
With our new package you will receive an annual salary of £30,592.87 rising to at least £32,785.75 after 2 years. That means you can have clarity and confidence about the pay you’ll receive throughout your first 24 months at Heathrow.
There are lots of other great benefits on top of that too.
You’ll also get:
- ongoing support and mentoring as you develop your career
- excellent pension scheme
- company bonus programme and Share in Success saver plan
- family friendly policies, including a supportive approach to maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- market leading life assurance
- income protection
- part-funded private medical insurance
- generous discounts, including on travel
- access to our cycle to work programme
- plenty of opportunity for overtime
- additional shift allowances on many of our work rosters
Travelling to work
Free parking is available, but we would encourage you to find a sustainable way to travel to work where possible. Our Sustainable Travel Guide sets out options that everyone can access, from our dedicated cycle hub and car share scheme to discounts on the Heathrow Express and some bus and coach routes.
Equal opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from diverse individuals. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. At Heathrow we’re an accessible place to work. We're driven by inclusivity and celebrate individuality.
Start a career in a world of its own
Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. There’s no better way to begin your new security career. And no better place than at Heathrow. Apply now.
