Remediation Officer – Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service

Remediation Officer – Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service

Your role and responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to join a specialist team responsible for delivering Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service’s statutory fire protection duties. You will play a key role in improving fire safety across Suffolk, providing expert advice and guidance on some of the county’s most complex and high-risk buildings.

• Act as a specialist officer for remediation projects, tall buildings, and higher-risk residential premises.
• Assess remediation strategies and fire safety improvement programmes to ensure compliance with fire safety legislation and best practice.
• Review fire engineering solutions, remediation proposals, and building safety measures.
• Conduct fire safety inspections, audits, and assessments across a diverse range of premises.
• Evaluate fire risk assessments and determine the adequacy of fire safety arrangements.
• Provide specialist advice and support to housing providers, developers, businesses, building owners, responsible persons, and other stakeholders.
• Support investigations and, where necessary, contribute to enforcement activity.
• Work collaboratively with building control bodies, housing partners, emergency response teams, and other agencies.
• Deliver presentations, awareness sessions, and educational activities to promote fire safety and compliance.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of Protection policies, procedures, and professional standards.

What you will need

• Strong analytical and investigative skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to explain complex technical, regulatory, or legal matters clearly and confidently.
• Sound professional judgement and a balanced approach to advice, support, and enforcement.
• Experience of building effective relationships and working collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• The ability to manage your own workload and prioritise competing demands.
• A commitment to continuous learning, professional development, and improvement.
• Ideally, you will have a recognised Level 4 qualification (or above) in a science, technical or social science discipline, or be able to demonstrate equivalent competence through a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) record.
• Experience or qualifications in fire safety, fire engineering, regulatory enforcement, building safety, or remediation would be desirable, as would membership of a relevant professional body such as the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE).

Salary: Crew Manager to Watch Manager B, or £35,570 - £42,123 per annum (pro rata)

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