Senior Fire Risk Assessor

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 & Technical team, operating within the Property Directorate. This is a crucial role that will involve conducting, and validating colleagues fire risk assessments, audits, inspections, and surveys across the housing stock, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and minimising risk.We are looking to recruit a Senior Fire Risk Assessor to carry out Type 3 Assessments on high-rise buildings., * Primarily responsible for providing and delivering 100% compliance for Fire Risk Assessments across the MTVH property portfolio.

• Review via approving and validating all fire risk assessments carried out by other Fire Risk Assessors.

• Working as part of a team of Fire Risk Assessors, you must have an excellent knowledge of the FRA process and the ability to view fire risk holistically ensuring risk is identified and communicated accurately.

• You will be 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, you will be responsible for providing technical fire safety advice to colleagues across the organisation and be a point of contact for external organisations in relation to fire safety.

• Support the business with designing and implementing training and be the point of contact for technical queries

The successful candidate will have a strong technical background with a clear understanding of the Regulatory reform Fire Safety Order, and relevant fire safety legislation and guidance documents with some experience gained in housing. You must have excellent communication skills and have an ability to communicate fire risk and good fire safety practise to all relevant persons.

• Must hold or be willing to obtain accreditation via IFSM as a minimum

• Hold a valid nationally recognised fire safety qualifications such as – NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management, Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE) or similar.

• A recognised minimum level 3 qualification within fire risk assessment such as the FPA, IFE or similar or registered by a competent body for FRA.

• Must have a minimum of 5 years experience in the fire safety industry.

To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers we will complete 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.

• 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 a 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 your family members too

• Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan

• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform

• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues

• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support

• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation