Fire Safety Advisor

Overview

In this role you ensure fire safety compliance and risk management within a high-profile hospitality environment. You will work with the Health, Safety & Wellbeing team to strengthen fire safety culture and maintain an effective safety management system. You’ll support risk assessment programmes, compliance monitoring, and provide clear reporting to stakeholders. This is a chance to influence safety strategy in a complex, high-risk venue while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Pay / Benefits

• salary up to 56,920
• benefits

Responsibilities

• Provide competent fire safety advice to support compliance with legal requirements and internal policies/standards
• Partner with Heads of Department and technical teams to identify, assess and manage fire risks, including coaching on risk controls and record-keeping
• Support development and review of fire safety standards, guidance and risk assessments, and help keep internal fire safety content up to date
• Track and support delivery of the programme of fire risk assessments, including action tracking and close-out
• Assist with compliance monitoring, inspections and incident investigations, plus reporting on fire safety performance and trends
• Attend relevant H&S / project planning meetings, preparing reports, presentations and recommendations as needed

Key requirements

• Level 4 Certificate in Fire Safety (or equivalent)
• Experience in fire safety management within a large, complex organisation (ideally arts/entertainment/hospitality venues)
• Strong working knowledge of current fire safety legislation and standards, with the ability to apply these pragmatically
• Confident producing reports, plans, policies and procedures, and communicating technical issues clearly to varied audiences
• Understanding of the Building Safety Act requirements (especially as they apply to higher-risk/high-rise buildings)

• clear and effective communication
• ability to convey technical information to varied audiences
• stakeholder collaboration
• fire safety legislation and standards
• risk assessment techniques
• reporting and documentation

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