Lead Fire Safety Consultant

At Ark Workplace Risk, we empower our clients to confidently manage risk, compliance, and safety through a trusted partnership built on expert knowledge, innovative solutions, and proactive guidance and insight.

About Ark Workplace Risk

• Proven Expert Knowledge: With over 30 years of experience and a prestigious and diverse portfolio of around 200 UK clients, we provide workable solutions that align with our clients' organisational and business goals, as well as regulatory requirements.
• Industry‑Leading Software: Our innovative tools streamline risk and compliance management, putting clients in control and enabling them to demonstrate accountability to stakeholders.
• Insight‑Driven Solutions: As industry thought leaders, we provide actionable insights into emerging legislation, guidance, and industry trends, ensuring court‑readiness for their business.
• Responsive Partnership: From everyday business‑as‑usual guidance to urgent, critical, complex, and contentious scenarios, we work in partnership with clients, becoming their trusted advisor and solution provider, whenever and wherever they need us most.

We’re looking for a Senior Fire Safety and Strategy Consultant who is passionate about fire safety and delivering the GOLD Standard in the built environment and enjoys working in a team of dedicated multi‑skilled safety professionals.

Benefits

• Excellent professional development opportunities including training bursary.
• Working with our prestigious and diverse range of clients in the built environment, including residential and commercial.
• Excellent career development opportunities (fast tracking professional development).
• Opportunity to work on fire strategies for high‑rise residential and complex buildings as well as various other fire safety assignments e.g. fire safety management systems as well as a variety of complex fire safety problems to solve.
• A wide range of benefits including Private Healthcare plan, 5% matched pension plan, 4x salary life cover, 25 days holiday plus all bank holidays, and Perkpal – perks and reward program.
• Social events with your colleagues.
• Professional Membership reimbursement.

Duties

• Undertake retrospective fire strategies, and complex Type 1,2,3,4 fire risk assessments in complex residential and commercial buildings.
• Reviewing and creating building safety management systems.
• Undertake complex compartmentation surveys and make recommendations.
• Develop a corporate fire safety management system across client portfolios.
• Act as an internal source of expertise for the consultants.
• Support clients with contentious matters including fire brigade interventions.
• Implement fire safety advice and site management systems, audits and reviews.
• Design fire management plans for existing buildings.
• Create fire safety solutions across a range of sites (varying in complexity) within the built environment.
• Work with colleagues across Ark to contribute to new projects and developments.
• Monitoring of External Wall / facade to confirm remedial work is assured.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience working as a Fire Safety Consultant in the built environment.
• Extensive experience in undertaking fire specialist work e.g. fire strategies, fire management plans, and complex fire risk assessments in high risk commercial and residential buildings.
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent report writing abilities to deliver client reports in accordance with a forensic and pragmatic approach.
• Comprehensive understanding of current UK building regulations e.g. Approved Document B.
• Working knowledge of relevant Approved Documents and relevant Standards including BS9991, BS9999, BS9997, PAS 9980 etc.
• Ongoing dedication to your CPD.

Qualifications And Memberships

• Recognised fire safety memberships e.g. GIFireE or MIFireE or MIFSM EngTech ADVANTAGEOUS.
• Ideally on Tier 3 IFSM, FRACS or IFE fire risk assessor register or operating at that level.
• Fire safety/ fire engineering diploma (Level 4 working towards Level 5).

Job Specifics

We are offering a competitive package (subject to location, skills, experience and track record). The majority of our work is around London. This role also has a national remit and you will be required to travel outside of London from time to time, so you must have the flexibility and willingness to travel as required.

Ark is a market leader providing an innovative suite of Professional Service Solutions, Outsourcing and future‑proofed Software and Analytics to mid/major organisations in the UK. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) for everyone. All applicants will be treated fairly and without prejudice.