Fire Safety Officer- High Rise Task Force – Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

Job Title: Fire Safety Officer – High Rise Task Force

Contract: Permanent

Working Hours: 37

Salary: £37,035 – £39,513

Location: Regional Work – Essex Base Post TBC

Closing Date: 5th January 2025

The Role

Do you share our passion for making our communities safer? Can you provide practical advice on how to make our buildings and workspaces safer places? Are you excited to learn more about making Essex a safe place to live work and travel putting your knowledge and skills into practice in a diverse and challenging county?

If so, then the right opportunity for you has arisen within our Protection (formerly known as Fire Safety) team. As part of our Protection strategy, we are committed to undertaking more safety audits than ever before, and we are looking for the right people to represent us in the community, providing the right advice and responses to fire safety challenges.

This role will primarily involve working across the region on workstreams associated with the Building Safety Regulator, on premises in-scope of the Building Safety Act 2022. Work will include inspecting a variety of buildings, providing advice to the responsible person and where necessary taking enforcement action. Other aspects of this role include assessing statutory consultations including a requirement to assess the design of new or extended buildings against the Building Regulations to ensure the design is compliant.

What You Will Be Working On

Carry out workstreams under the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), including information gathering and auditing of premises in-scope of the Building Safety Act 2022 across the Eastern Region.

Carry out fire safety audits in accordance with ECFRS Risk Based Inspection Programme

Carry out statutory consultations on a wide range of premises ranging from low to very high complexity

Alleged fire risks

Protection support to operational colleagues

What Are We Looking For?

This role will be perfect for you if you are passionate about fire safety and are motivated by what you can bring to ECFRS, the people of Essex and the wider region.

You will hold the appropriate qualifications in fire safety and have experience of managing your own workloads as well as being part of a team. You must have excellent time management and prioritising skills as you will be required to meet statutory deadlines.

We would love to find someone that has strong interpersonal skills and experience of working with people from all walks of life with an aim of achieving a common goal.

You will be required to attend formal courses both in person and remotely, that will continue to develop your knowledge and competency within the fire safety sector. It is a requirement that you will sign a pre-learning agreement prior to undertaking formal training.