Fire Safety Officer - Harlow

Package

• Salary - £47,000 to £52,000 per annum, depending on experience
• Company Car or Car Allowance, with mileage allowance of 45p per mile
• Annual performance based bonus (10-15% of salary)
• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Job Description

The Fire Safety Officer will be responsible for reviewing fire risk assessments and acting on the various recommendations resulting from those fire risk assessments. You will use your fire industry knowledge to interpret the recommended actions of the fire risk assessments and decide on the correct course of action required to resolve those findings.

The recommended actions of fire risk assessments can be very varied and it will the responsibility of the Fire Safety Officer to ensure that the required rectification works are dealt with in a timely and efficient manner. Decision making will be key in deciding which department needs to action the findings whether it be passing the task directly to the service department for engineers to carry out the works via a schedule of rates, passing to the small works estimating department to produce a quote for the required works or for larger works passed to the sales department to carry out a survey.

The Fire Safety Officer will be responsible for ensuring that works are tracked from the front-end quotation process, the order booking phase, the execution phase of completing the work through to the final billing phase. You will be responsible for your own workload and for ensuring the Fire Risk Assessment Administrator is working in an efficient manner

The number of outstanding actions resulting from Fire Risk Assessments is tracked as a weekly KPI and it will be the responsibility of the Fire Safety Officer to keep outstanding actions within acceptable levels by chasing various departments when necessary.

Key Skills/Requirements

• Minium 3 years experience in the Fire & Life Safety Systems sector
• Understanding of British Standards for Fire Alarms, Smoke Vent Systems, Emergency Lightings and Evacuation Alert Systems would be highly advantageous
• NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk management or completion of FIA training desirable
• Previous experience in the supervision of staff and making departmental decisions
• Prioritising the workload of yourself and others, and ensuring tasks are completed within deadlines
• Computer Literate including experience with Outlook, Excel and Word.
• Previous contract management or service delivery experience preferred.

Working Hours -

8.30am until 5.00pm Monday to Friday with 30 minutes lunch. Hybrid working commences after the training period is completed - this involves 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

There is free parking on site. Dress code is business casual with dress down on Friday.

If you would like to know more about this position, then please forward your CV to (url removed). If you would like to discuss this position, please call and ask to speak to Holly.

Please note Alecto Recruitment are acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.