HSW Fire & Emergency Preparedness Specialist

ENGINEERINGUK; Leiston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team at one of the UK's largest nuclear projects, the Sizewell C Project! As a Fire and Emergency Preparedness Specialist, you will play a crucial role in ensuring safety and compliance within a fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for developing and implementing emergency management strategies while working closely with operational teams. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a project that shapes the future of energy, with a focus on safety, sustainability, and teamwork. Your expertise will help create a safer working environment and ensure readiness for any challenges that arise.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Pension Schemes

Health and Wellbeing Support

Virtual GP Services

Health Assessments

Employee Assistance Programme

Extra Leave Options

Employee Discounts

Transport Allowances

Qualifications

• Experience supervising teams in fast-paced, operational response environments.
• Knowledge of UK Health and Safety Legislation and Nuclear Site Licensing Conditions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver all aspects of Integrated Emergency Management (IEM).
• Ensure compliance with fire and emergency preparedness arrangements.

Skills

Team Supervision

Risk-based Exercise Planning

Tactical Emergency Management Advice

Incident Controller Knowledge

Emergency Marshal Roles

UK Health and Safety Legislation

Nuclear Site Licensing Conditions

Confined Space Working

Communication Skills

CSCS Managers & Professionals Competence

Education

Health and Safety Qualification

Emergency Management Certification

Tools

Proprietary Rescue Equipment

Job description

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HSW Fire & Emergency Preparedness Specialist

View more categories View less categories Sector Construction and Building Services ,Engineering Role Specialist Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time

Health, Safety and Wellbeing - Fire and Emergency Preparedness Specialist

Location: Sizewell C Project Site - Suffolk

Join the exciting journey of one of the UK's largest nuclear projects at Sizewell C!

The Civil Works Alliance is actively seeking a Fire and Emergency Preparedness Specialist to support the success of the Sizewell C Project, one of the UK's most ambitious and strategic nuclear infrastructure developments.

The Fire and Emergency Preparedness Specialist will be responsible for delivering all aspects of Integrated Emergency Management (IEM), which includes anticipating threats and hazards, assessing and preventing risks, preparing for potential effects, responding to emergencies, learning from experiences, recovering from incidents, and validating procedures. In this role, you will support Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (HSW) Managers and operational teams in ensuring full compliance with the Sizewell C (SZC) fire and emergency preparedness arrangements, ensuring that all legal and regulatory obligations are met.

Key Responsibilities

• Keeping the CWA Incident Management Plan under continuous review and recommending changes to procedures as may be required.
• Supported by the operational teams will, analyse, design, develop, implement and evaluate a comprehensive drills and exercise schedule to ensure readiness of response against prioritised delivery area threats and hazards.
• Ensure Horizon Scanning the first four elements of Integrated Emergency Management (IEM) is carried out effectively, in that Anticipation, Assessment, Prevention and Preparation activity will be undertaken to mitigate against risk
• To ensure close liaison and cooperation between the CWA response arrangements and that of the site emergency response teams, SZC Fire & Rescue Service, SZC Health Emergency Medical Response teams, G4S Security and the Site Operations Duty Manager.
• Able to motivate, coach and support the CWA Project Management teams to deliver the Fire and EP project requirements.
• To identify and exploit and joint learning, training, drilling and exercising opportunities with the site emergency services.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Experience supervising teams in fast-paced, operational response environments.
• Skilled in researching and planning risk-based exercises.
• Ability to provide tactical emergency management advice to senior leaders.
• Knowledge of Incident Controller and Emergency Marshal roles.
• Familiar with SZC's Trauma Medical Immediate Care (TMIC) syllabus and advanced first aid techniques.
• Understanding of relevant UK Health and Safety Legislation (e.g., Construction Regs 2015, Confined Space Regs, Civil Contingencies Act).
• Knowledge of Nuclear Site Licensing Conditions (LC 11, LC 8).
• Experience with Confined Space working and rescue (C&G Level 2 & 3).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Managers & Professionals competence
• A good knowledge regarding the use of proprietary rescue equipment for rescue from height, rescue from depth.

Why SZC?

This is your chance to contribute to one of the UK's most ambitious infrastructure projects, shaping the future of energy while working in a supportive, dynamic environment. Be part of a team that values innovation, safety, and sustainability at every stage of the journey-from investment to construction and beyond.

About Laing O'Rourke

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [e-mail]

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Company

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

“As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards andBenefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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