Fire Safety Officer – Protection Fire and Rescue Service

Fire Safety Officer – Protection – Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

The Role

Do you share our passion for making our communities safer? Can you provide practical advice on how to make our buildings and work spaces 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 Prevention and Protection strategies 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.

The role will involve working within the Community inspecting a variety of buildings, providing advice to the responsible person and where necessary taking enforcement action, 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. You may also be required to deliver fire safety training to our operational firefighter teams.

What You Will Be Working On

• Carry out fire safety audits in accordance with ECFRS Risk Based Intervention 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 (or learning about) fire safety and are motivated by what you can bring to ECFRS and the people of Essex.
• You will 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 on successful completion will eventually culminate in you obtaining a Level Four Diploma in Fire Safety. It is a requirement that you will sign a pre-learning agreement prior to undertaking your formal training.