Site Fire Safety Manager

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Nuclear Power Programmes are delivering client critical works to some of our major UK and European Projects. Our embedded teams are delivering support to Hinkley Point C (New build power station in the South West), Sizewell C (located in the South East), helping develop technologies in SMR (Small modular Reactor) capability and working towards building Poland's first Nuclear Power station.

Working in both client facing and internal roles we are delivering major programme and project management capabilities throughout the project lifecycle. We are driving to deliver safe, high quality and to time solutions by thinking innovatively and working collaboratively.

The HPC Site Fire Safety Manager will work within the HPC Principal Contractor team and engage with and establish working relationships as a minimum with the Programme Construction Delivery Leads, Programme Managers and the Tier 1 fire managers / advisors which enables high performance in the control of all programme Fire Safety risks. The HPC Site Fire Safety Manager will provide the Principal Contractor advice, guidance and standards to support activities which focus on establishing, promoting, maintaining and continually improving the Fire Safety management arrangements and culture across the HPC Project. Key Accountabilities :

• Manage the HPC Construction Site Fire Safety arrangements and team to support an integrated approach to deliver adequate Fire Safety arrangements.
• Establish, monitor and review a robust Fire Safety management system including the setting of policy, standards and strategies.
• Anticipate future fire needs on the construction site based on the anticipated risk profile and ensure construction activities can continue in line with project needs whilst ensuring legislative compliance to meet our Zero Harm ambition.
• Manage the Fire Safety Team, delivering monthly and annual objectives, goals and KPIs to support and measure the HPC delivery programme.
• Establish and maintain the required Fire Safety meetings, forums and engagements which plan, manage, monitor, coordinate and review Fire Safety in accordance with the HPC site requirements.
• Support key regulatory interventions and inspections leading on Fire Safety related matters and being a key stakeholder to provide the Regulators confidence in the adequacy of Fire Safety arrangements on the HPC Construction Site.
• Manage a Fire Safety Assurance programme to assure Fire Safety standards across the HPC Construction Site, identifying findings and actions, ensuring timely close out and completion.
• Produce relevant, regular and appropriate Fire Safety performance reports and dashboards, in accordance with agreed timeframes, which will include the identification of trends and early warnings of possible issues, recommending appropriate action.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Membership (or working towards) of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM) or equivalent organisation.
• Health, Safety & Fire Safety Qualified via an approved professional body or organisation i.e. UK Fire Service College, FPA, IFE, NEBOSH etc
• Demonstrates a knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of Health & Safety & Fire Safety.
• Competent in using Microsoft applications and an aptitude to learn new software packages.
• Proven track record of achieving excellent Fire Safety results on operating, engineering and/or construction projects.
• Chartered membership of IOSH or equivalent
• IFE Membership and Qualification

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here.

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