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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