Fire Incident Liaison Officer

Job description

Fire Incident Liaison Officer

Would you like to be responsible for ensuring fire safety across the submarine site? We currently have a vacancy for a Fire Incident Liaison Officer at our site in Barrow.

As a Fire Incident Liaison Officer, you will be be part of the Fire Safety team on the Barrow site, ensuring and advising on Fire Safety and compliance to legislation.

This role will enable to you gain a breadth of knowledge across various areas of the organisation and products, whilst providing an opportunity to develop Fire professional skills and experience in a high risk environment.

Your main responsibilities as a Fire Incident Liaison Officer will involve:

Responding to all fire and associated incidents across site, taking overall control of the situation and acting Officer in charge

Dynamically assessing any emergency situation and where necessary escalate from a local incident to an offsite incident, involving the First Attack Fire & Rescue Service and external fire authorities

Providing advice, support, coaching and governance of Fire regulations and legislation to support the build delivery organisation

Providing technical information, support and input into all risk assessments

Ensuring professional and accountable interface with all stakeholders including Boat Delivery Teams, Regulators, Contractors and Customers

Ensuring all applicable aspects of the Safety Health and Environment, Fire and Operational Plan is delivered to schedule across all submarine sites

Ensuring compliance with all applicable legislation, guidance and best practice

Your skills and qualifications:

Ability to provide technical support, governance and coaching in fire safety legislation

Previous experience of undertaking audits and risk assessments in high risk environments

Evidence in previous roles of driving safety culture and safety improvements

Previous experience of industry related Fire Safety would be desirable

Previous experience of working in a Manufacturing or Production environment is desirable

Working towards FPA Diploma in fire safety management or equivalent would be advantageous

What we're looking for in you:

You are a clear communicator with the ability to interface with personal at levels. Able to work under stressful situations and are a pragmatic team player who have the ability to work unsupervised.

Salary: Competitive

Location: Barrow-In-Furness

BAE Systems

BAE Systems is one of the world's leading global defence, security and aerospace companies. We work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.

Maritime – Submarines

BAE Systems Maritime Submarines has been safely delivering world class submarines to the Royal Navy for more than a century. BAE Systems Maritime Submarines is home to the design, build, test and commissioning of the Astute class - the Royal Navy's latest and most capable generation of attack submarines. In total, seven of these state-of-the-art vessels will make up the fleet, each weighing a mighty 7,400 tonnes.

Split across nine UK locations, and with more than 5,000 employees, the business is also the industry lead for the successor to the Vanguard class of nuclear deterrent submarines.

We pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around. Join us and you'll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.

BAE Systems welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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