AMS PSR

On behalf of HSE, we are looking for a x3 Fire Engineers (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based remotely with occasional travel for meetings.

At the Health and Safety Executive, we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. Our mission is to prevent work-related death, injury, and ill health.

Our roots stretch back to 1833. The modern HSE is an independent regulator with a wide reach across many employment sectors. Using world leading science, we have helped protect millions of people from devasting injury and suffering through our diverse regulatory activities.

We concentrate effort on the most serious risks, targeting industries with the greatest hazards, and sectors with the worst risk management record. We hold people to account where we have to, and we are firm but fair when using our legal powers. We also provide support to businesses through free guidance and advice tailored to business needs. By giving them the confidence to manage risks sensibly, we boost productivity, support the economy, and contribute to a fairer society. We work hard to help maintain an effective regulatory framework, playing our part in providing proportionate and accountable legal requirements.

The world of work is always changing. We use science to understand these changes. And that understanding helps us all prepare for the workplaces of tomorrow... so Great Britain continues to be one of the safest and best places to work and do business.

As a Fire Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Provide support to building control colleagues on complicated cases which relate to complex and high risk buildings. This could involve writing specialist reports and undertaking expert witness work.

• Act as principal advisor to caseworkers to support them to manage, evaluate and discharge duties and responsibilities for Gateway 2 applications, including complex buildings and developments that are in scope of the BSR.

• Act as a specialist Fire Engineer expert, providing competent advice to BSR and MDTs whilst adhering to the regulators code and within their level of competence

Essential:

• Experience of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
• IFE Membership – MIFireE
• Qualification – for example IFE Diploma in Fire Safety or similar2.
• Demonstrable experience of Fire Safety, Structural Safety, Construction Safety, building systems, health & safety and design & construction.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, HSE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".