Part Time Aviation Security Officer

To become an Aviation Security Officer at London City Airport, you‘ll be passionate about creating the best experience for all our passengers. Throughout your shift, you’ll be greeting people, patrolling the airport, monitoring secure areas, and generally putting everyone at ease by going above and beyond. You will be playing an important part in making the passenger journey as safe and well as possible.

You’ll also be carrying out searches and safety checks on passengers, colleagues, and the items they bring through the airport.

Yours will be the friendly face that offers our 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 using your challenger spirit.

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 attached.

The qualities we look for are more common than you might imagine. You don’t need security experience or an SIA licence. We’ll give you five weeks of full-time training on full pay before you start in your role.

What you will need, however, is:

• a warm, engaging personality and positive, friendly approach
• strong attention to detail
• strong senses (vision, touch, smell, hearing) especially when searching persons and/or their belongings
• fluency in written and spoken English – additional languages are a bonus
• the physical fitness to cope with long periods of standing, bending and walking
• full colour vision

You must also be:

• 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
• available to complete full-time training for your first five weeks, even if you’ve chosen to work part-time thereafter

Hours of Work:

• 20 hours per week on a rotating roster that starts as early as and finishes as late as
• Includes weekends and public holidays. Flexibility required.
• Regular Overtime is available if desired

Please see roster pattern attached to this advert – you would need to be able to work all shifts/days within the roster pattern shown. Please only apply for this role if you can commit to the roster and working hours

Benefits:

• Free uniform
• Free onsite parking
• Access to discounted Private Medical Insurance for you and immediate family
• Medicash Cash plan
• Enrolment into company AE pension scheme
• Access to Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Bereavement Counselling
• Cycle 2 Work salary sacrifice scheme
• Hastee Pay Advances
• 20 Days Annual leave (increasing by 1 day each year for the first 5 years until you reach 25 days)
• LCY Central discount website
• Annual Bonus based on increase in passengers each year
• Annual Season Ticket Loan
• On site Physiotherapist
• Discounted Gym Membership at many local facilities
• Staff discounts at most of retailers on site & some local restaurants & hotels
• Holiday Buy scheme (Ability to purchase up to 1 weeks A/L per year)
• Access to Salary Sacrifice Car leasing Scheme

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London City Airport is one of the largest private sector employment sites in the London Borough of Newham. We offer a wide range of interesting and challenging career opportunities for the local community.

With over 2,000 employees here, working either directly for London City Airport Limited or for one of our concession partners, airlines, or other business partners on site, the scope for career satisfaction and progression is huge.

London City Airport is an Inclusive Employer.
At London City Airport we respect and celebrate each other’s individual differences. We embrace all backgrounds and abilities of all team members and we work closely with our Inclusion Group A Voice for all to ensure we are an inclusive workplace.

Please note that we only ask candidates to go through the necessary security checks (Criminal Record Checks or CRC) once a position has been offered. If you are approached by a third-party site offering to manage the process for you, please ignore it.
London City Airport Ltd is not currently delivering a Graduate Training Programme but we do run a Work Experience Programme. Please click here to find out more.