Fire Safety Consultant

**Fire Safety Consultant**

The main aim of this role is to support the Fire Safety Manager in continually improving the Fire services for our clients. As a Fire Safety Consultant, you will conduct Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs) and other fire related products, liaise with clients to support them on fire safety incidents or technical queries and to meet their expectations and help manage / reduce their risks.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide support to the Head of Fire Safety.
- Deliver Fire Risk Assessments across an agreed geographical patch, meeting agreed SLAs. On occasions, provide cover for other Fire Consultants in other geographical areas.
- Assist and monitor Fire QA to ensure that all FRAs are released from QA within KPIs.
- Ensure FRAs are uploaded timely and accurately within the team KPIs.
- Assist Fire QA with the formal responses to appeals and escalations.
- Provide support to the Safety Advice Line Team in office hours.
- Provide support on technical advice, and ongoing proactive and reactive advice for internal and external stakeholders through meetings, project work and regular reporting.
- Provide support to the Service Coordinators for monthly planning.
- Meeting the client specific requirements prior to conducting FRAs.
- Commitment to delivering fire products in a way that suits both internal and external expectations.
- Attend regular Fire Safety meetings.
- Support with the Apprenticeship Training Scheme.
- Deliver additional services to clients i.e., training, technical advice, occupancy / means of escape reviews etc. where necessary.
- Create action plans with your manager where FRA reports are not completed to the required standard.
- Support the Sales team with clear and concise communication for sales leads, provide product knowledge training and support in client meetings, where requested.
- Maintain personal competency, professional/technical development, accreditation, and professional registration.

**Skills & Experience**
- Hold an IFE, IFSM or IFPO accreditation
- Level 3 qualification in Fire Risk Assessment or Level 3 in Fire Safety Management (Essential)
- Minimum of 1 year within a consultancy environment or 2 years within the Fire Service (Essential)
- Customer focused and commercially aware (Essential).
- Excellent communication skills, with the drive, creativity and commitment to succeed.
- Experience in the validation / QA of Fire Risk Assessments (Desirable)
- Professional approach
- A positive approach to all situations.
- Full valid UK driving license
- Flexibility to travel

**Who are Shield Safety?**

We are a leading Environmental Health consultancy, focussed on making safety simple and we work with a wide range of businesses across Hospitality and Retail. Our clients range from single-site coffee shops and takeaways to supermarkets and pub groups. Basically, anywhere you can eat, drink, sleep or shop in the UK. Some of our well-known clients include Tesco, YO Sushi, Empire Cinemas, Radisson Hotels and KFC. We're extremely proud of our 95% customer retention rate.

We specialise in providing risk-management services including Food Safety Audits, Health & Safety Audits, Fire Risk Assessments, Consultancy and Training. All delivered by a highly experienced and well-qualified team of Safety Professionals. We’re also paper-free. Our clever team of software superstars have developed RiskProof, our cloud-based software and companion app for compliance and risk management.

Shield Safety celebrated our 20th birthday this year and we’re extremely excited for the future and what’s to come next

**What do we offer?**

If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment surrounded by other passionate, like-minded people then read on. Continued training and development is key for all members of our team and a tailored training and induction plan is given to each new starter to help them get up to speed. There are always new opportunities to get involved in various projects across departments and we fully support CPD in order to help everyone reach their full potential.

**Some of our benefits include**:

- 33 days’ holiday (incl. Bank Holidays) plus the option to purchase 5 extra days per year
- Flexible working options incl flexi-time and remote working
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme & Wellbeing App
- Various discounts (gym memberships, HelloFresh boxes, Nike, Look Fantastic, My Protein, family breaks, hotel stays, trips to theme parks and so much more)
- Generous Maternity Leave and enhanced Paternity Leave
- Monthly one-to-ones with your Manager to ensure you have all the support you need
- Health Cash Plan
- Financial support options

**What are we looking for?**

We are incredibly passionate about our core values and we ensure that every new member of our team can demonstrate these.

We work with passion
- Love what you do
- Have fun
- Be bold

We focus on excellence
- Be the best
- Strive for excellence
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