Heathrow
Technician - Terminal 4
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Be at the heart of Terminal 4, where you’ll play a vital role in maintaining and optimising our assets that keeps airport operations running smoothly.
In this hands-on position, you’ll apply a broad, multi-skilled approach across mechanical and electrical assets, such as air bridges, automated tray returns, HVAC, power and lighting. Your expertise will be essential in ensuring the reliability and performance of critical assets within a high-demand, fast-paced setting.
You’ll be responsible for delivering both planned and corrective maintenance, while also contributing to continuous improvement initiatives, project delivery, and asset replacement programmes that enhance operational efficiency and resilience.
Working within a forward-thinking and innovative environment, you’ll collaborate with a dedicated team focused on safety, performance, and excellence, supporting the seamless operation of one of the world’s busiest airports.
Salary: Starting from £46,345 - £49,584 (depending on experience). Successful candidates will benefit from a structured technical progression framework, with salary increases linked to the achievement of defined competencies and technical skills.
Shift allowance: £6,624
Shift pattern: 4 on (2 days, 2 nights - 12 hour shifts) and 4 days off.
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 come home 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.
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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
This is an airport-based position. Every day, you will play a critical role in helping us to give our passengers the best airport service in the world.
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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, and through our diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.
Be part of this city within a city. Every year, millions of people travel through Heathrow. Joining our Engineering team means being at the heart of a complex operation whose size, scale, and reputation for innovation are unique. We make sure the airport is always running smoothly and keep passengers and planes moving.
Our team touches all aspects of airport life – from water to energy, rail to roads, baggage systems to runways. The scope and variety of what we do is vast, spanning mechanical, electrical, water, civil, rail, and environmental disciplines. Together, we are responsible for the performance of 500,000 assets worth £14bn. It means there are always a wide range of interesting development, construction, and maintenance projects to get involved with. And a lot of ways to develop your skills, career, and reputation.
You’ll be part of a close-knit, driven team, taking on work that you can take real pride in and feel passionate about. It’s an exciting place to be, where every day, you’ll discover a world of fresh possibilities and you’ll be mentored by world-class experts every step of the way.
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