Fire And Security Technical Support

Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Full-time
Salary: £35,520 + excellent benefits, including outstanding pension
Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire
Confirmed Grade: Level 4
Department: Buildings and Facility Management

Company Description

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on.

Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.

UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.

Job Description

As an employee of UKAEA, you will benefit from:

- Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
- Corporate bonus scheme of up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
- Flexible working options, including family-friendly policies.
- Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
- Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays.
- Wide range of career development opportunities.
- A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy.

As our Fire and Security Technical Support, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the management of fire safety and building security maintenance and upgrades, including the day-to-day management of the contract’s operatives. You will also deputise for the Fire Safety Systems Manager on occasion.

You will also ensure fire safety & buildings security system maintenance is carried out safely and in compliance with the relevant statutory legislation, codes of practice, best practice and delivered effectively and make sure that systems faults are expediently identified and addressed.

To be successful, you will require fire industry knowledge, inducing active and passive measures of fire defence. You will also require the ability to manage contract works/workers.

Additional Responsibilities:

- Preparation of written safe systems of work and EDC applications.
- Providing engineering solutions and advice on new fire safety and building security installations.
- Project management of fire safety and building security upgrades, including assisting with production of specifications, through the tender process and supervision of contractors on site to final sign off.
- Carry out inspections, audits, and sign-offs of completed works, including maintenance and new installations at the point of commissioning and handover to ensure compliance with fire safety and building security standards.
- Managing the team's Fire Safety Compliance tools and chasing up outstanding actions.
- Managing site-wide fire drills, ensuring suitable records are kept and actions resulting from the drills are facilitated.

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

- Demonstratable knowledge of managing internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Proven working knowledge of safety management.
- Solid understanding of installing and maintaining fire safety and building security systems.
- Computer literate, use of Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel, experience in the use of Computerised Maintenance Management Systems and the interrogation of system data

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits and to apply, select the apply button to be taken through to the UKAEA careers pages.

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.

For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the UK Government website for information on criminal records checks. If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.