Principal Engineer – Fire Safety
Location: Barrow (remote working, with occasional requirements for site visits to support specific project needs)
Duration: 12 months
Rate: 55.31 per hour PAYE or 74.68 per hour Umbrella
Would you like to play a crucial role within fire safety to ensure the safe delivery of Royal Navy submarines? Our client is currently recruiting for a Principal Engineer – Fire Safety in their submarines business.
As a Principal Engineer – Fire Safety, you will act as a subject matter expert for fire safety and will be a key contributor in ensuring safe submarines by design. You will engage with a wide range of engineering stakeholders across our programmes to develop and embed fire safety requirements, conduct fire risk assessments and reduce risks from fire hazards.
Responsibilities
- Taking a lead role in fire risk assessment activities
- Developing, producing and maintaining fire safety process documentation
- Producing and reviewing fire and explosion safety strategies and risk assessments
- Engaging with engineering stakeholders to develop and implement fire safety requirements
- Production and review of safety case documentation (relevant to fire safety)
- Providing support to regulatory compliance
- Chairing fire and explosion safety workshops and working groups
Proven Ability / Key Skills
- Fire risk assessment proven ability gained from a high hazard industry or construction environment
- Knowledge of working in a fire safety engineering environment and applying various fire safety guidance including Defence Standards, ADB, BS 9999 and relevant NFPA standards.
- Application of risk based approaches to fire safety engineering
- Safety case development proven ability
- Fire hazard identification and analysis
- Fire risk assessment production and review
- Fire strategies
- Safety case authoring
Additional
Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the project involved all applicants must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level.
