Lead Fire Safety Consultant, Building Safety Assurance

Lead Fire Safety Consultant - Building Safety Assurance, Permanent

Hybrid.

At Ark Workplace Risk, we empower our clients to confidently manage risk, compliance, and safety through a trusted partnership built on expert knowledge, innovative solutions, and proactive guidance and insight.

About Ark Workplace Risk:

Proven Expert Knowledge: With over 30 years of experience and a trusted reputation among 200+ UK organisations, we provide workable solutions that align with our clients’ organisational and business goals, as well as regulatory requirements.
Industry-Leading Software: Our innovative tools streamline risk and compliance management, putting clients in control and enabling them to demonstrate accountability to stakeholders.
Insight-Driven Solutions: As industry thought leaders, we provide actionable insights into emerging legislation, guidance, and industry trends, ensuring court-readiness for their business.
Responsive Partnership: From every day, business-as-usual guidance to urgent, critical, complex, and contentious scenarios, we work in partnership with clients, becoming their trusted advisor and solution provider, whenever and wherever they need us most.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Lead Fire Safety Consultant who is passionate about delivering the GOLD Standard in fire safety solutions in Building Safety, to contribute to our growing team of subject matter experts, supporting our clients with their duties under the Building Safety Act 2022 and Fire Safety Act 2021.

In this role you will be undertaking building safety case report writing, building safety advisory in collaboration with other competent persons and communicating with external clients.
This is a hybrid role with little travel and is suited to a candidate who wishes to spend significant amounts of their time working from home. There will be 2-5 days at the office or on site expected per month, as an example.

The ideal candidate will be passionate and demonstrate an ability to thrive working as part of a specialist team of like-minded multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary safety professionals. Opportunities to develop further skills and career advancement - as Ark grow so do you.

Key Responsibilities Include;

o    Developing building safety case reports.
o    Building safety advisory, in collaboration with other competent persons.
o    Review fire strategies and fire management plans.
o    Undertake other types of risk-based assignments within your competence level.
o    Use standards appropriate to conform to the correct Fire Related building regulations and safety standards.
o    Provide a practical and methodical approach to solving problems relating to fire safety of sites.
o    Report writing using easy to use software solutions.
o    Attend and keep up to date with your CPD personal development plans, updates and courses as directed by the company (Ark funds courses to increase your certification and knowledge).

Experience and Qualifications

o    Experience of Fire Safety Management within the built environment.
o    Fire risk assessment experience in high-rise residential buildings.
o    Can recognise the importance of accurate and reliable documented information, including knowing how to deal with missing information and assess the suitability of information management systems.
o    Ability to deliver direction on high-level consulting projects and assignments as required.
o    An understanding of the environment in which a building operates including the legal framework, responsibilities and accountabilities, due diligence, evidence management and verification, safety management, and information management.
o    An understanding of the practical measures for fire prevention/ protection and structural safety and be comfortable working alongside structural safety professionals.
o    Desire and ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of internal stakeholders to ensure optimal solutions for our clients.

Qualifications And Memberships

•    Full member of a relevant institution, such as the IFE or IFSM
•    Minimum Level 3 Fire but ideally level 4 or working towards.

Essential Skills

•    Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and report writing ability
•    Capability to multi-task and manage multiple projects
•    Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of internal stakeholders to ensure optimal solutions for our clients
•    Strong interpersonal skills and report writing ability as well as a comprehensive understanding of current UK regulations