Fire Risk Assessor
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £49,686
Are you an experienced Fire Risk Assessor looking for a new opportunity? MTVH are currently seeking a diligent and qualified professional to join our Compliance Services team, operating within the Property Directorate. This is a crucial role that will involve conducting fire risk assessments, audits, inspections, and surveys across our housing stock, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and minimizing risk.
We are looking to recruit Fire Risk Assessors to carry out assessments on Type 1, 2, and 3 buildings. The role will involve:
* Being primarily responsible for providing and delivering 100% compliance for Fire Risk Assessments across the MTVH property portfolio.
* Working as part of a team of Fire Risk Assessors, utilizing an excellent knowledge of the FRA process to view fire risk holistically and ensure that risk is identified and communicated accurately.
* Being responsible for ensuring suitable and accurate remedial works are identified and communicated in assessments, and that they align with the timeframes recommended in the MTVH FRA Process documents.
* Where required, being responsible for providing technical fire safety advice to colleagues across the organization and being a point of contact for external organizations in relation to fire safety.
To Succeed you will need:
* A strong technical background with a clear understanding of the Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order (2005) and relevant fire safety legislation and guidance documents, with some experience gained in housing.
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate fire risk and good fire safety practice to all relevant persons.
* Must hold Tier 2 accreditation via IFSM as a minimum (or be willing to obtain prior to employment).
* Hold a valid nationally recognized fire safety qualification such as NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management, Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE), or similar.
* A recognized minimum grade 3 qualification within fire risk assessment such as the FPA, IFE, or similar, or registered by a competent body for FRA.
* A minimum of 2 years experience in the fire safety industry.
* Experience of carrying out FRA's in social housing.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers, this role requires a Basic check with the Disclosure and Barring Service once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.
Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What’s in it for you?
* 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part-time) per year.
* 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities.
* An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra day off.
* Supported family-friendly approach with extended parental leave.
* Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%.
* Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year.
* Life assurance cover 3 x your salary.
* Cycle2work scheme.
* Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department.
* Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add family members to.
* Tenancy deposit – interest-free loan to help with rental deposits and season ticket loan.
* Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with the Wisebox platform.
* Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organizational activity and link in with colleagues.
* Career progression across the organization with our mentoring/coaching programs, apprenticeships, and career planning support.
* Employee Assistance Programme - We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organization.
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support, and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviors and to be mindful of their own and others’ wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well, and recommend improvements. Our Network groups are:
* Gender
* Ethnicity
* LGBTQ+
* Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care, and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people-focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found, so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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