Fire Safety Officer

Job Title: Fire Safety Officer

Location: Belfast

Hours: 37 Monday - Friday

Salary: £19.32

To assist the Fire Safety Manager in implementing, monitoring and reviewing the Housing Executive's Fire Safety Policies, Processes and Procedures and ensure the NIHE is fully compliant with its statutory and regulatory undertakings that

reduces any risk to its customers, employees, and third parties to be as low as reasonably practicable

Key Responsibilities

1. To be responsible for Fire Safety Management of a designated portfolio of

premises in collaboration with other departments, professions and organisations

(internaly and externally) to ensure the delivery of a customer focused service.

2. To fulfil the role of a competent person with sufficient training, experience,

and knowledge to undertake Fire Risk Assessments to identify hazards and risks

to relevant persons and prescribing appropriate risk reduction solutions in a fire

safety Action Plan.

3. To ensure that Action Plans arising out of Fire Risk Assessments are

delivered, managed and updated within acceptable timeframes including remedial

actions that have been assigned to the Fire Safety Officer and pro-actively

pursuing actions that have been assigned to others, consequently reducing fire

risk to as low as reasonably practicable.

4. To manage and co-ordinate all aspects of the operational delivery of Fire

Safety works via contractors in collaboration with other departments, professions

and organisations (internally and externally).

5. To work collaboratively with team members to achieve Team and

departmental objectives and KPIs.

6. Where necessary, to provide advice to internal stakeholders on various Fire

Safety technical matters including advice on Fire Safety Statutory Obligations,

Building Regulations and the application of National and European Technical

Standards.

7. To monitor the performance of Fire Safety works contractors, including

attending and participating in monthly contract performance meetings, and

escalate issues of non-compliance and poor performance to senior management

or contract managers.

8. To carry out, as necessary, consultation with stakeholders including local

authority representatives, tenants, staff representing the Landlord, community

representatives, etc. on matters relating to Fire Safety.

9. To make recommendations to management based on professional

judgement and experience where significant fire safety risks are identified or

situations where immediate action is required to prevent loss of life, serious injury,

damage to property, or prosecution.

10. To be an integral part in the design, development and delivery of both

internal and external training in respect of Fire Safety.

11. To assist management in developing reports for presentation to the

organisation's Health & Safety Committees and other relevant assurance

committees.

12. To undertake ongoing / continuous professional development to maintain

an up-to-date knowledge of industry best practice and legislation in respect of Fire

Safety to enable the post holder to undertake work of a technical and complex

nature

13. To undertake training courses and attend work related seminars at the

discretion of the Fire Safety Manager in order to keep abreast with new legislative

requirements or to develop the necessary skills to achieve team or departmental

objectives.

14. To issue the necessary works Task Orders via the Housing Executives I.T.

system identifying cost centre allocation, priority and works description, including

the approval of any necessary variations and authorise invoices for payment within

delegated levels of authority.

15. To monitor and manage complaints by resolving issues and highlighting

trends, where evident.

16. To provide a focal point for general Fire Safety enquiries as directed by the

Fire Safety Manager.

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