Are you an experienced Fire Risk Assessor? Are you looking to move into the consultancy world, working on a variety of exciting projects? TSA Surveying are working alongside one of the UKs leading built environment consultancies who are looking to appoint a Senior level Fire Risk Assessor.

Due to continued success and growth, we are currently recruiting for a Fire Risk Assessor or Senior Fire Risk Assessor to join the team at our Birmingham (Solihull) office. Our client is a built environment consultancy, helping our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our client's 1,000+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline, and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They are the foundation of our client's success - they drive their vision, embody their values, and separate them from the competition.

Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.

As a Fire Risk Assessor, you will be responsible for conducting site-based fire risk assessments within a variety of sectors, including industrial, commercial, and residential, within a specified timescale, using bespoke technology to collect data via a tablet.
This opportunity would suit an experienced Fire Risk Assessor who has been carrying out work either on a consultancy or an in-house basis, who is willing to travel regularly, or an ex-fire and rescue service inspecting officer with extensive experience in auditing premises under the Fire Safety Order and who has relevant qualifications and accreditation.

What you need to do to be effective in this role:

- Undertake regular communication with our client's team to coordinate programmes of inspections and remedial works.
- Ensure buildings conform to the latest fire-related building regulations and technical standards.
- Take particulars on-site, write up schedules of works required, and in association with others, prepare specifications, obtain estimates, plan programmes of work, monitor progress of works on site, checking compliance with the specification.
- Provide a practical and methodical approach to solving problems, working to fixed budgets and within tight deadlines.
- Provide advice in connection with applications for Building Regulations Approval on Fire Related matters.
- Authorise and sign off Fire Risk Assessments before submission to clients.
- Conduct annual internal audits on Fire Risk Assessors.

The skills and experience you need to have for this role:

To be successful in your application for our Fire Risk Assessor position, you will need to be fully conversant with current fire safety legislation including the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order and technical standards, as well as a full understanding of current fire safety issues, trends, and best practices. You will also have:

- Demonstrable experience gained in a similar role.
- Minimum Level 4 qualification in fire risk management, or a Level 5 qualification in fire risk assessment or fire engineering.
- IFE-approved fire risk assessment course completion.
- Registered on the national register of Fire Risk Assessors, either via IFE, FRACS, or IFSM (the latter of which will require minimum registration on Tier 3 of the IFSM register).
- Experience as a Validator under the BAFE SP205-1 Scheme.
- Driving licence required.
- Experience of carrying out fire risk assessments in a range of premises.

If this role is of interest to you, drop me an email with your most up to date CV at (url removed)