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.
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