Location:  Solihull (Blythe Valley Park)

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.  Ridge are a built environment consultancy, helping our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment. We are enabled by great people who are inspired and proud of what they do and respected for who they are.

As a Fire Risk Assessor at Ridge, 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.

As a Fire Risk Assessor, your duties will include:

• Undertake regular communication with our Client’s team to co-ordinate programmes of inspections and remedial works
• Ensure buildings conform to the latest fire related building regulations and technical standards
• Taking particulars on site, writing 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 working 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

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 practice.  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

What's in it for you?

Our people are our business – our vision is to be ever progressive, expanding our expertise and nurturing our talent through Quality, Innovation & Growth, to achieve our strategic outcomes:

• Growth which fuels ideas and opportunity for all
• Purposeful and meaningful work
• Continual development and mentoring
• Empowerment, inclusivity and respect
• Happiness and enjoyment
• Openness, honesty and integrity
• Acting as one team

Your reward is focused on your total wellbeing, with a package to support all aspects of life. In addition to your salary, you can expect:

• A healthy holiday balance of 25 days, plus bank holidays & the ability to buy / sell to suit you
• 3 days a year to give your time to others, volunteering for great causes
• An inclusive wellbeing offer:
  • Financial – Life Assurance, Pension Scheme (3% Employee, 6% Employer), Income Protection, Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme, flexible choice of Critical Illness Insurance
  • Physical – Free Private Medical Insurance, Doctor at Hand Private GP, Best Doctors, flexible choice of Dental Plan, Cycle to Work Scheme, GymFlex & Healthcare Cash Plan
  • Mental – Mental Health First Aiders, Help@Hand by Unum
• Car allowance
• A flexible approach to hybrid working, to suit both you & your team
• Tailored career development – focused on professional, personal and/or educational

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application & selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies

We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed & released to you by our Talent Acquisition team via our ATS.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.