Fire Safety Specialist

Job description

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

AXIOM is one of the DSA alliance partners and is an unincorporated Joint Venture (JV) made up of four major engineering contracting companies each with complementary capabilities and skills. The members have excellent nuclear pedigrees, demonstrated expertise and effective track records across the UK nuclear fleet and related nuclear industries.

AXIOM provides process, mechanical, civil structural and architectural, electrical, instrumentation, control and safety capabilities to support Sellafield Ltd.

As well as having a large, dedicated team working for Sellafield Ltd, each has immense reach-back capability into parent organisations for knowledge, expertise and innovations gained from within, and external to, the nuclear industry. Examples of other markets include Oil and Gas, Environment, Mining and Aerospace.

You will be joining a large existing team that clearly understands the different requirements for optioneering, solution inspired, design decommissioning, operating plant asset care, infrastructure and new builds.

The Fire safety specialist will be responsible for providing building fire safety strategy and nuclear fire safety assessment and advice.

Responsibilities:

• Safety case activities to be undertaken in compliance with SLP 2.17.02.
• Identify and deliver a proportionate scope of building fire safety strategies and nuclear fire safety activities for the DESF NNL Transfers Project.
• Manage own time and work, delivering to time and schedule including immediate/urgent unplanned requests from safety case and design teams.
• Communicate fire safety assessment findings and advice to relevant parties and stakeholders.

Here's What You'll Need:

• BSc/MSc in relevant subject or equivalent level of qualifications / experience.
• Previous experience as a fire safety specialist in appropriate high hazard industry setting managing delivery of fire safety assessments.
• Comprehensive understanding and application of fire safety methods and practices in supporting the safety case, engineering and operations.
• Experience and understanding of Safety Case, Projects, Design Engineering and Commissioning processes and methods.
• Experience and understanding of UK regulatory environment and relevant legislation - HASWA, Management of H&S at Work Regulations, Nuclear Installations Act, IRR.
• Experience of dealing with internal and external stakeholders and regulators.
• Ability to plan and manage defined work scope effectively.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of the Sellafield Ltd site, hazards posed, organisational structure, and processes.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.

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Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.

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