Passive Fire Protection Lead

3 weeks ago

Oxford Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Laing O'Rourke Full time

Are you interested in working on some of the UK's most high-profile projects in the field of specialist fire engineering?

Passive Fire Protection (PFP) is a crucial aspect of fire safety in buildings, and getting it right requires careful collaboration, planning, and management throughout the design and construction process.

Laing O'Rourke has been awarded to deliver The Ellison Institute of Technology project, which will continue the Institute's groundbreaking work in cancer research, disease prevention, and global health policy, while also providing educational programming for students from all over the world.

We are currently seeking a PFP technical leader/manager/engineer to join our team at Oxford and help us lead the construction industry with our innovative approach to Passive Fire Protection.

We are looking for technically-minded, quality-focused individuals with a keen interest in fire engineering and an understanding of how buildings and materials react to fire.

This is an exciting opportunity to be instrumental in a rapidly developing sector of the construction industry with real scope for learning, development, and progression.

What will the role look like?

  • Govern approach to PFP for services penetrations and building fabric in line with the fire strategy
  • Early-stage involvement to ensure that all elements of passive fire protection are properly considered
  • Sharing lessons learned with the central MEICA fire compliance team
  • Working closely with the Laing O'Rourke central fire team and a network of like-minded PFP professionals,
  • A key element of the role will be to ensure projects are set up for success from the beginning.
  • Ensuring compliance of BWIC Design and coordination in line with PFP solutions
  • Ensure PFP solutions and components are compliant with the project Fire Strategy
  • As a technical-minded Leader you will call out poor practices and behaviours with respect to design, procurement, delivery and handover in relation to passive fire protection.
  • The role is also required to act as an integrator between project activities and the central fire team, ensuring best practices and maintaining high safety-critical standards.
  • The role requires honesty and transparency to encourage a culture of openness, lessons learned and knowledge sharing, evidence-based technical assessment and delivery.
  • Ensure appropriate coordination & design QA checks
  • Coordinate input to the Health & Safety file

What skills & experience are we looking for?

  • Logical, well organised with the ability to prioritise
  • Numerate, Literate and accurate
  • Establish relationships with key stakeholders as needed to demonstrate governance and assurance, including building control and insurers
  • Focussed on meeting deadlines
  • Good communication and influencing skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and to build and maintain good working relationships

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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