Lead Fire Safety Consultant | Contractor | London & Surrounding | Competitive

Ark Workplace Risk is hiring a Lead Fire Safety Consultant.

This is a hybrid contractor role based around London and the surrounding area. Some travel outside London is also needed.

You will join a team of safety professionals and support clients across the built environment. The work includes high-rise residential, commercial, and other complex buildings.

You will lead on fire strategies, fire risk assessments, building safety management systems, compartmentation surveys, and wider technical advice. This role is a strong fit for someone with deep Fire Safety experience and a practical, client-focused approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead fire strategy work: Carry out retrospective fire strategies for complex buildings
• Complete risk assessments: Deliver complex Type 1, 2, 3, and 4 fire risk assessments in residential and commercial buildings
• Support building safety systems: Review and create building safety management systems
• Undertake surveys: Carry out complex compartmentation surveys and provide recommendations
• Develop management systems: Help build corporate fire safety management systems across client portfolios
• Give expert advice: Act as an internal source of fire safety expertise for other consultants
• Support difficult cases: Help clients deal with contentious matters, including fire brigade interventions
• Improve site systems: Implement fire safety advice, site management systems, audits, and reviews
• Create plans: Design fire management plans for existing buildings
• Work across projects: Help develop fire safety solutions on a wide range of sites
• Support façade assurance: Monitor external wall and façade works to help confirm remedial work is assured
• Collaborate: Work with colleagues across Ark to support new work and shared learning

About You

• Experienced: At least 5 years as a Fire Safety Consultant in the built environment
• Technically strong: Strong background in fire strategies, fire management plans, and complex fire risk assessments in high-risk commercial and residential buildings
• Knowledgeable: Good understanding of UK Building Regulations, including Approved Document B
• Standards aware: Working knowledge of standards such as BS 9991, BS 9999, BS 9997, and PAS 9980
• Strong writer: Able to produce clear, forensic, and practical reports
• Good with people: Strong interpersonal skills and confident with clients
• Committed to learning: Ongoing focus on CPD

Qualifications and memberships:

• Recognised membership: Such as GIFireE, MIFireE, or MIFSM
• Advantageous: EngTech
• Preferred level: Ideally on Tier 3 IFSM, FRACS, or IFE fire risk assessor register, or working at that level
• Qualification: Fire safety or fire engineering diploma at Level 4, working towards Level 5

What Ark Workplace Risk Offers

• Competitive day rate: Package depends on location, skills, experience, and track record
• Professional development: Strong development support, including a training bursary
• Varied clients: Work with a wide range of well-known residential and commercial clients
• Interesting projects: Opportunity to work on high-rise residential buildings, complex fire strategies, and other technical fire safety work
• Collaborative culture: Open working environment with shared knowledge and team support
• National reach: Role based mainly in London, with wider project exposure when needed

How to Apply

Apply if you have strong technical fire safety experience and want to work on complex projects in London and beyond.

This role is hybrid and contractor-based, with travel needed across London and, at times, elsewhere in the UK.

Application Tips

Focus on your experience with complex fire strategies, high-risk buildings, and specialist fire risk assessments. Use clear examples that show technical judgement, strong report writing, client advice, and how you have handled difficult or high-profile fire safety issues.