Fire Assessor

Role: Fire Assessor

Location: Remote(working from home)  - Visting sites around the Midlands

Salary: £up to £44,000 plus package

Permanent role

Immediate Interviews

Housing

Mason-James is working with a well-established and highly reputable company who are recruiting for experienced Fire Assessors. We are ideally looking for someone who has worked on housing projects. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an company who can offer flexibility, career progression and great work life balance

• To carry out a type 1, 3 and 4 fire risk assessment program in domestic housing, care, and support schemes and in properties where housing has responsibility such as community halls, and

• Identify hazards and risks associated with fire in general and specialist buildings and processes

• Report fire risk issues including any directly related to awareness of reporting arrangements for residents and occupants

• Evaluate existing fire risk assessments including appropriateness for the risk

• Audit management of fire safety systems

• Recommend controls to manage residual risks, including where necessary in higher risk situations temporary controls that might be required until a permanent control is implemented

• Liaise with the Fire Risk Assessment Manager and Senior Fire Risk Assessor to deliver risk assessments in line with the Fire Safety Management System.

• Management and coordination of contractors required to support destructive inspections as part of the type 4 fire risk assessment process.

• Ensuring that all making good of intrusive survey complies to fire safety standards and is of a high quality

• Provide concise and sufficiently detailed fire risk assessments for all type 1, 3 and 4 assessments

• To carry out surveys as per the fire risk assessment program and following any major works carried out on properties.

• To carry out pre-occupation and post-occupation surveys as part of the handover process for new build properties

• Carry out inspections of all new build properties to ensure it complies with the RRO (Fire Safety) Regulations, Building Regulations, and other associated legislation.

• During or following assessments - provide advice to managers and staff to assist them in the fulfilment of their responsibilities and therefore organisational compliance with legislative requirements and where appropriate internal standards and best practice. Such advice should be pragmatic, presenting achievable options to eliminate or sufficiently mitigate risk.

• To conduct site visits to liaise with residents where appropriate to the benefit of the council

• To support and provide advice to frontline workers in carrying out personal fire risk assessments (PCFRA) personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPS) on residents identified as needing support in an evacuation

• To keep abreast of relevant fire safety related legislation and good practice, to provide advice to enhance compliance and maintain fire risk assessor competency requirements through training and updates of legislation

• To carry out post inspections and quality assurance necessary remedial action following fire risk assessments.

• Support the Fire Safety Manager, Fire Risk Assessment Manager to manage the completion of fire safety actions in terms of management of the delivery of required works via the contractor.

• To investigate and report on all fire incidents and provide recommendations to improve fire safety

• To develop and maintain effective internal relationships creating a supporting and assisting attitude to foster and promote a positive risk management and safety culture, maintaining the highest possible internal and external customer satisfaction.

For more information please apply or contact Jennifer directly