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Fire Risk Assessment Validator
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Are you an experienced fire safety professional with strong technical knowledge and a keen eye for detail?
At Osterna, part of Residential Management Group, we are looking for a Fire Risk Assessment Validator to join our team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with significant fire risk assessment experience who is passionate about quality, compliance, and ensuring that risk assessments meet the highest professional and industry standards.
In this role, you will provide independent technical validation and quality assurance across Fire Risk Assessments and Health & Safety Risk Assessments, ensuring reports are accurate, consistent, suitable, and sufficient before they are issued to clients.
You will play a key role in supporting quality, compliance, and continuous improvement across Osterna, helping to maintain high standards across assessor outputs while also providing technical guidance and feedback to support assessor development.
What You'll Be Doing
As our Fire Risk Assessment Validator, you will be responsible for reviewing Health, Safety, and Fire Risk Assessments for technical accuracy and ensuring recommendations, risk ratings, and findings are appropriate, consistent, and aligned with relevant standards.
You will validate reports before they are issued to clients, support compliance requirements in line with the BAFE SP205 scheme, and maintain accurate quality assurance records.
You will also help support the development of templates, methodologies, and best practice ways of working, while identifying training needs and providing constructive feedback to assessors to support ongoing competency and professional development.
What We're Looking For
We are looking for someone with strong technical knowledge and practical experience within fire risk assessment, ideally across both residential and commercial settings. You will need to be confident reviewing technical reports, challenging findings where needed, and ensuring assessments are completed to a high standard.
You will also bring:
- A recognised fire safety qualification, with Level 4 or above preferred.
- NEBOSH General Certificate and Fire Safety Certificate as a minimum.
- Significant Fire Risk Assessment experience across residential and commercial settings.
- Practical health and safety assessment experience.
- Experience auditing technical reports.
It would also be beneficial if you have IFSM National Fire Risk Assessors Register registration, NSI Validator status, membership of a relevant professional body, or experience mentoring fire risk assessors.
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You'll not only be joining a thriving market leader where you'll benefit from working alongside the best in the industry, you'll also receive a superb package of company benefits including:
- 27 days holiday plus all Bank Holidays
- Free Healthcare cashback Plan (re-claiming for things like optical treatment (plus an optical discount voucher) and dental care, physiotherapy, and GP Charges – plus more! (all to a generous fixed amount), plus 24/7 access to remote GP Services
- Sponsorship for study and professional qualifications (up to 4 study days)
- Pension scheme (matched up to 7%) and Life assurance (4 x annual salary)
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What's next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career, then apply following our simple 5-minute application process, upload a CV, and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions, please email the recruitment team.
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided you meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application.
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Please note that we may bring the closing date forward if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role, we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.
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