Health, Safety and Fire Consultant

Job Title: Health, Safety and Fire Consultant

Location: London

Salary: £40,000-£55,000 + DOE.

Job Type: Permanent, Full time

The Role:

• Due to continued growth, a vacancy has arisen within our Health, Safety and Fire Safety team for a Health, Safety and Fire Consultant.
• The successful candidate will carry out a variety of fire, health and safety risk assessment based services, for clients in varying industries including commercial, retail, education and local government sectors among others.
• Ideally, candidates will also have the necessary skills and experience to carry out the company’s training services as well including fire warden training.
• You will be part of a very busy, vibrant and sociable health and safety team, and can ‘hit the ground running’ after an initial induction phase.

The Company:

• Office Test provides a complete suite of health and safety, fire safety and electrical compliance services to more than 5500 companies across the UK.
• Having grown every year across all the key performance metrics, the company is now looking to cement its status as the UK’s leading ‘complete compliance’ provider.
• We are looking for a hard working professionals that are great at what they do and have the desire to make a real difference in the company they work for.

The Candidate:

• Ideally 2-3 years’ minimum experience of working within a professional health and safety consultancy company in a similar client facing role
• Ability to carry out comprehensive health and safety services, including risk assessments for clients in varying industries including commercial, retail, education, local government premise among others
• Ability to carry out comprehensive fire risk assessments as required under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
• Experience of developing and delivering health and safety training to include Fire Warden Training (including the use of fire extinguishers), fire awareness, manual handling, low level access
• Experience of liaison with regulatory authorities such as Health & Safety Executive, Local authority, Fire Authority
• To formulate and write comprehensive health, safety and fire documents, including policies, evacuation procedures
• Experience of completing display screen assessments
• Experience of delivering first aid training (Desirable)
• Hold a full driving license (Desirable)
• The role mainly based in London, however must be willing to travel nationally
• Be flexible on working outside of normal hours
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be IT literate, Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word.
• Experience in using an iPad
• Must be able to work under pressure and meet required deadlines.
• Reliable, flexible and well presented.
• Personable and approachable, with an enthusiastic and motivational nature and an overall passion for excellence when it comes to front line customer service.
• High energy and committed with a genuine sense of fun

Qualifications:

• NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety (Essential)
• NEBOSH Certificate Fire Safety & Risk Management or fire risk assessment related qualification (Essential)
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent (Desirable)
• CMIOSH (Desirable)
• OSHCR Occupational Health & Safety Consultants Register (Desirable)
• First Aider Instructor Qualification (Desirable)

Membership of a professional body (Essential to have at least one):

• Institution of Occupational Safety & Health (IOSH)
• Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE)
• International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM)
• Institute of Fire Prevention Officers (IFPO)

Benefits:

• Further training opportunities
• Assistance with professional memberships
• Pension
• Competitive salary (depending on experience)
• Free fruits daily
• Friday social events
• Career opportunities
• 28 days holiday, increasing with service
• Birthday and Christmas Eve off work

What our clients say about us:

‘Very professional company, they kept me informed at all times and were able to answer my questions in a simple but understandable way. Quick service and good quality’

‘Office test were friendly and efficient. We would use their service again.’

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