Bellrock Group
Head of Passive Fire Consulting
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Head of Passive Fire Consulting
As Head of Passive Fire Consulting, you will lead and develop Bellrock’s Passive Fire service line, overseeing fire door inspections, compartmentation surveys, fire stopping assessments, and associated consultancy services.
You will hold responsibility for the technical governance, commercial performance, and sustainable growth of the Passive Fire function. This includes ensuring that inspection methodologies, reporting standards, and competence frameworks align with legislation, industry standards, and third-party accreditation requirements.
Operating as a senior leader within the Fire & Compliance division, you will ensure that Passive Fire services are delivered consistently, profitably, and to a defensible technical standard.
As part of the role, you may be asked to contribute to Safety Case Reviews and HAZID (Hazard Identification) activities where required.
How will you be the change?
- Providing strategic leadership for the Passive Fire Consulting team, including surveyors and senior consultants.
- Owning and maintaining survey methodologies, reporting templates, and quality control frameworks for:
- Fire door inspections
- Compartmentation surveys
- Fire stopping assessments
- Passive fire defect reporting
- Ensuring compliance with relevant standards and guidance, including:
- Approved Document B
- BS 8214
- BS EN 1634 series
- Relevant ASFP guidance
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
- Building Safety Act (where applicable)
- Overseeing quality assurance processes, peer review structures, and audit readiness.
- Managing commercial performance, including utilisation rates, day-rate recovery, margin retention, and pipeline conversion.
- Reducing subcontractor reliance where strategically appropriate and developing internal capability.
- Supporting major tenders and framework bids requiring passive fire expertise.
- Leading accreditation and third-party certification alignment (e.g., FIRAS, BAFE where applicable).
- Ensuring appropriate competence levels across the team and supporting CPD development.
- Acting as a senior escalation point for complex technical disputes or remediation scope challenges.
- Collaborating closely with Fire Engineering and FRA teams to ensure joined-up compliance solutions.
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What does it take?
If you’re ready to be the energy that helps us build our business, share our success, and really own it as a Head of Passive Fire Consulting, you’ll need...
- Extensive experience in passive fire protection inspection and consultancy, including fire door inspections, compartmentation surveys, and fire stopping assessments.
- Demonstrable experience leading and developing passive fire teams within a consultancy or compliance environment.
- Strong technical understanding of passive fire systems, including fire door assemblies, structural fire protection, fire stopping, and compartmentation principles.
- Recognised fire safety qualification at Level 4 or Level 5 (aligned to BS 8674 or equivalent).
- Formal fire door inspection qualification (e.g., FDIS Diploma or equivalent) highly desirable.
- Membership at Member level or above with a recognised professional body (e.g., IFE, IFSM, CABE or equivalent).
- Proven experience working within, or managing, third-party accreditation schemes (e.g., UKAS-accredited frameworks, BAFE, FIRAS or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of relevant legislation and guidance, including:
- Approved Document B
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
- Building Safety Act
- BS 8214
- BS EN 1634 series
- ASFP technical guidance
- Demonstrable experience developing survey methodologies, reporting templates, and quality assurance processes.
- Commercial awareness, including experience managing utilisation rates, margin performance, and subcontractor control.
- Experience contributing to audit readiness, technical governance, and professional indemnity risk management frameworks.
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Working arrangements
We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow. In this role, the successful candidate would be required to work mobile across London and various other sites around the UK, Monday to Friday.
What can we offer you?
Upon joining Bellrock, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package including:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you (enjoy it, it’s on us)
- Salary exchange pension scheme
- Life cover
- Paid sick leave
- Health Assured employee assistance and wellness program
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Salary sacrifice schemes: Cycle to work
- Holiday purchase scheme of an additional 5 days per year
- Offers and discount scheme designed to save money on everyday shopping and essentials
- Healthcare Cashplan
- MotorSave Scheme
- Refer a friend
- Liftshare
- Virtual GP
Why Bellrock?
Our people are our passion, so we’re all about helping them to shine. That means putting everything in place for you to have a rewarding career with us. So you can go far in your career, with us behind you. And our business will grow, too. So, if you’re ready to start your career journey with Bellrock, we’re ready to welcome you. It’s a great place to be - the light, the energy, the solution. You.
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