Base salary: £59,268pa to c.£69,727pa depending on skills and experience. Flexible benefits fund of 20% paid on top of base salary and fully pensionable. Additional competitive benefits available on website.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. This includes positive and inclusive adjustments, flexible working, support for staff networks and personal and professional development opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Support development of strategy, requirements, specification and standards across the project for fire engineering design, including evacuation, compartmentation, detection and alarm systems, fire extinguishing devices and systems.
- Provide technical expertise and advice relating to fire engineering to both the wider organisation and external stakeholders as required.
- Support in providing technical assurance for fire engineering discipline including safety arguments and technical files to demonstrate compliance with current fire safety legislation and identified standards.
- Support management of interfaces of fire systems with other infrastructure systems.
- Support Qualitative Design Review (QDR) process, detailing specific fire prevention and protection issues and requirements.
- Develop risk assessments in accordance with the Regulatory Reform order.
- Support the delivery of effective Fire and Rescue Service liaison and engagement for all stages of the project (design, construction, operational).
- Engage and consult as appropriate with internal teams impacted by fire engineering design, particularly Infrastructure Management, Railway Systems, Technical Directorates, the asset project and contract management teams.
- Assist in preparation of Emergency Plans and the planning and execution of Live Exercises.
- Maintain expert knowledge of fire engineering, fire life safety and stay abreast of legislative requirements and how standards and best practice support their application.
- Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work. Support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
Qualifications
Skills
- Capable of being a Standard Owner, working under the guidance of the Standard Discipline Owner.
- Provide specialist technical support and leadership on discipline-specific analysis, problem solving and design techniques to project development/delivery teams while knowing when to seek further guidance from other Subject Matter Experts.
- Provide technical, commercial management and leadership skills to support project development/delivery teams, working under supervision of line manager (or delegate).
- Communicate discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application.
- Apply principles relating to standards, safety and the environment and be able to articulate the rest.
- Apply principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security; understand approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation and visualisation and know when to seek guidance from a Subject Matter Expert.
Knowledge
- Appropriate scientific, technical for fire engineering principles.
- Review and select appropriate techniques, procedures and methods for tasks.
- Understand measurement and research techniques used to identify the source or root cause of a problem or issue.
- Understand promoting quality and contributing to best practice methods of continuous improvement.
Type of experience
- Experience applying technical standards as appropriate.
- Experience capturing business requirements and translating into data and system solutions.
- Experience driving business benefit through improved process and use of data.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is also expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship licence from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time‑bound visas that we cannot accept.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre‑employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
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