Senior Fire Risk Management Consultant, Newcastle

Opportunity for a Senior Fire Risk Management Consultant to lead our Fire Risk Management team in Newcastle. This is an opportunity for you to join our successful, fun, highly engaged fire safety team of over 50 people in an influential and strategically important leadership role with lots of opportunity for you to build a legacy and progress in your career. 

Hydrock is an independently-owned integrated multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 600 staff, operating out of 18 offices in the UK. We have been consistently in the 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the last seven years. We pride ourselves on looking after our people and our values help create a unique, dynamic, working environment. Feedback from our client listening programme and employee surveys indicates we are great to work with, whether providing our services to a client or a rewarding experience for our employees. 

You will lead our current Fire Risk Management business in Newcastle, working collaboratively with your multidisciplinary colleagues within and outside the Fire Division to optimise our business development and project delivery activities and grow the business. At the time of writing the team are exceeding their commercial targets despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and are still planning for considerable growth in the year ahead. We are all still predominantly working from home, however there is an appetite to return to the collaborative and social environment that is a Hydrock office, when it is safe to do so.

What you will need to succeed in this role:

• A passion for fire risk management, with a focus on end-user experience and safety.
• An entrepreneurial and an innovative approach to developing our fire risk management service and client development, positioning us at the forefront of the industry.
• Degree educated in a relevant subject, or significant professional experience and able to demonstrate the knowledge to advise clients in a senior consultant role.
• Strong experience leading projects delivering fire risk management consultancy services to a range of clients in a variety of project sectors in the UK market.
• Ability to lead project teams, mentoring and developing less experienced consultants, working to interpret, shape and meet client’s needs ensuring high quality delivery outcomes and consistently achieve client satisfaction.
• Ability to work closely and collaboratively with other disciplines, including structural engineering, building services, acoustics, utilities and others involved in each project.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development, maintaining current and agile aware of the latest industry developments and an ability to undertake independent learning.
• Time management and organisational skills.

NB: This role would also suit someone from a building control background looking to transition into Fire Safety.

We are also keen to know if you can offer any of these non-essential attributes:

• Ideally, but not necessarily, Masters educated in a fire related subject.
• Chartered member of a relevant professional institution.
• Experience in business development, either supporting or leading in identifying and winning work with new clients.
• Demonstrable examples of identifying and implementing innovative solutions in fire risk management in a consultancy environment.

Fire Safety

Our Fire Safety team has a earned a reputation for delivering technically excellent work and responsiveness, together with a large team winning new work, has resulted in exceptional growth. 

Our Fire Safety Division is represented in all regional capitals within England and Wales as well as Scotland with a large team of colleagues to help win new work. We are in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Manchester, Plymouth and Stoke-on Trent…so far.

From concept to construction, our fire engineering expertise helps to optimise design and ensure complex buildings are compliant with regulations. Our team has extensive experience working on public sector, residential, commercial, industrial and high hazard process construction projects. We deliver a range of engineering services throughout each step of the development process; from site appraisal, through to planning, design and delivery services for all types of projects.

The workload is diverse with many ‘high profile’ regional and national clients. 

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How we work

We have now returned to our offices; some of us full time, though many of us now choose to split our time between working from home and working in the office. If you’re in the office every day you’ll have a designated desk to use. For those who hybrid work our offices are now set up for hot desking, so you can select and book a desk through our cloud booking system. By offering you more flexibility, our aim is to enable everyone to work in a way that best facilitates productivity, work life balance and collaboration.

Hydrock 

Hydrock is an independently-owned integrated multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of circa 600 staff, operating out of 18 offices in the UK. We have been consistently in the 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the last seven years. We pride ourselves on looking after our people and our values help create a unique, dynamic, working environment. Feedback from our client listening programme and employee surveys indicates we are great to work with, whether providing our services to a client or a rewarding experience for our employees. 

What you can expect in general

Inspired and motivated colleagues. A great team, office and employer (check out our 2020 wrap up here). A genuine opportunity to create and to be recognised and rewarded.

The remuneration package will include a competitive salary and employer pension contribution, 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy/sell up to five days), healthy living bonus, well-being bonus and a wide variety of flexible benefits. There are also little things like a paid day off for good causes and free fresh fruit in every office.

We have several team, office, regional and divisional events but ‘Challenge Day’ is when the whole company comes together for a paid day of fun! You can check out our most recent Challenge Day here!

A career with Hydrock offers you the chance to achieve your potential in a strongly people-focused and values-led business that provides great opportunities for professional and personal development.

A place where we can all thrive

At Hydrock we value our diversity and place wellbeing and inclusion for all at the heart of our culture. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving these aims, so we encourage everyone talk to us about any ideas which enable you to balance your personal commitments with your responsibilities at work. Please let us know your current and/or desired flexible working arrangements in your covering letter, so we can discuss how this could work for you in this role.

Hydrock is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We consider all applications on an individual’s alignment with the required qualifications, knowledge and experience outlined in this job advert, without regard to any of the protected characteristics. So that we can provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience, please make us aware if you have any physical or neurodiverse condition for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.

Next steps

• Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you within two weeks. 
• If shortlisted, a member of our Recruitment Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock. 
• If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices (if possible and in line with Covid-19 guidelines). Please let us know what you feel comfortable with.