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
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