Fire Safety Compliance Administrator – Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

Job Reference: REQ000441
Location: Bedford or Luton

About the role:
Our Protection Team helps keep people, businesses and communities safe through fire safety regulation, risk reduction activities and ensuring access to water supplies for firefighting.

Working closely with Fire Safety Regulators, the Water Officer, Managers and Operational Crews, you will coordinate a wide range of activities that support the Service’s legal and regulatory responsibilities. The role requires excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities in a busy environment.

Key responsibilities:
– Schedule audits for higher risk premises using intelligence-led, risk-based approaches to reduce the risk to our business community in line with Service objectives.
– Gather and maintain accurate risk profiles by liaising daily with Fire Safety Regulators, Station Managers and Crews in line with legal requirements.
– Undertake the preparation of Notice of Deficiencies, Prohibition and Enforcement Notices and correspondence utilising the Fire Safety Management system, and ensuring all legal requirements and deadlines are adhered to in order for them to be reviewed and issued by Fire Safety Inspectors in a timely manner.
– Responsible for ensuring all administration in relation to regulatory requirements are dealt with in a timely manner including, but not limited to, Building Regulations, Licencing, Enforcement and Building Complaints liaising with Fire Safety team members as required monitoring progress to ensure deadlines are met.
– Maintain accurate records of all data submitted from external parties relating to the Fire Safety (England) Regs 2022 as part of the national requirement, and where required, ensuring appropriate action is taken by the Protection Team.
– Support the Water Officer in monitoring local authority planning portals for applications and update the internal database to assist with ensuring developments are following Government guidelines, including Building Regulations 2010 and the National Guidance document on Water for Firefighting.
– Extract data from computer systems and spreadsheets to provide information and create management information reports on Protection activity data, including but not limited to Home Office statistics, inspecting officer performance, forecast, FOI requests and manipulate this data to be presented in the required format.

Next steps
If this role is of interest, please visit our website https://www.bedsfire.gov.uk/careers/search for further information and to make a formal application. We ask that you include your full career history and reference your skills and experience in line with the job description and person specification within your application and supporting statement.