Residential Fire Risk Assessment Validator

Places for People; Wideopen; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday + bank holidays

Free Healthcare cashback plan

Sponsorship for study and professional

Pension scheme (matched) and Life 4x

Access to Our Place Rewards discounts

Job summary

Osterna, part of Residential Management Group, seeks a Fire Risk Assessment Validator with extensive experience to perform independent technical validation of Fire Risk Assessments and Health & Safety Risk Assessments. You will ensure accuracy, consistency and suitability before client delivery, while supporting QA improvements and assessor training.

You will review reports for technical accuracy, challenge findings when needed and maintain QA records in line with standards.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in validating fire risk assessments to a high professional standard.
• Experience auditing technical health & safety reports and ensuring recommendations align with standards.
• Ability to provide guidance, feedback and training support to assessors to maintain competency.

Responsibilities

• Review Health, Safety and Fire Risk Assessments for technical accuracy.
• Ensure risk ratings and findings are consistent with relevant standards.
• Validate reports before issue to clients and maintain QA records.
• Support development of templates, methodologies and best practice.

Skills

Fire risk assessment experience

Technical report auditing

Quality assurance & compliance

Communication & feedback to assessors

Education

Level 4 Fire Safety Qualification

NEBOSH General Certificate

Fire Safety Certificate

Job description

Are you an experienced fire safety professional with strong technical knowledge and a keen eye for detail?

At Osterna, part of Residential Management Group, we are looking for a Fire Risk Assessment Validator to join our team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with significant fire risk assessment experience who is passionate about quality, compliance and ensuring that risk assessments meet the highest professional and industry standards.

In this role, you will provide independent technical validation and quality assurance across Fire Risk Assessments and Health & Safety Risk Assessments, ensuring reports are accurate, consistent, suitable and sufficient before they are issued to clients.

You will play a key role in supporting quality, compliance and continuous improvement across Osterna, helping to maintain high standards across assessor outputs while also providing technical guidance and feedback to support assessor development.

What You’ll Be Doing

As our Fire Risk Assessment Validator, you will be responsible for reviewing Health, Safety and Fire Risk Assessments for technical accuracy and ensuring recommendations, risk ratings and findings are appropriate, consistent and aligned with relevant standards.

You will validate reports before they are issued to clients, support compliance requirements in line with the BAFE SP205 scheme and maintain accurate quality assurance records.

You will also help support the development of templates, methodologies and best practice ways of working, while identifying training needs and providing constructive feedback to assessors to support ongoing competency and professional development.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone with strong technical knowledge and practical experience within fire risk assessment, ideally across both residential and commercial settings. You will need to be confident reviewing technical reports, challenging findings where needed and ensuring assessments are completed to a high standard.

You will also bring:

• A recognised fire safety qualification, with Level 4 or above preferred.
• NEBOSH General Certificate and Fire Safety Certificate as a minimum.
• Significant Fire Risk Assessment experience across residential and commercial settings.
• Practical health and safety assessment experience.
• Experience auditing technical reports.

It would also be beneficial if you have IFSM National Fire Risk Assessors Register registration, NSI Validator status, membership of a relevant professional body or experience mentoring fire risk assessors.

What does RMG have offer you?

You’ll not only be joining a thriving market leader where you’ll benefit from working alongside the best in the industry, you’ll also receive a superb package of company benefits including:

• 27 days holiday plus all Bank Holidays
• Free Healthcare cashback Plan (re-claiming for things like optical treatment (plus an optical discount voucher) and dental care, physiotherapy and GP Charges - plus more! (all to a generous fixed amount), plus 24/7 access to remote GP Services)
• Sponsorship for study and professional qualifications (up to 4 study days)
• Pension scheme (matched up to 7%) and Life assurance (4 x annual salary)
• As part of Places for People Group (RMG's parent company), you will have access to Our Place Rewards, where you can choose from a huge range of shopping discounts, instore vouchers and reloadable e-cards, earn cashback on on-line purchases and take advantage of many exclusive offers!

What’s next?

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided you meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We’re happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

Please note that we may bring the closing date forward, if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.

We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

Safeguarding

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect.

We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment.

By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.

Armed Forces

We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant. Places for People will guarantee an interview for any candidate who is serving or has formerly served in the Armed Forces, as a reservist, armed forces veteran (including the wounded, injured and sick), cadet instructor and military spouse/partner and who meets the essential criteria for the vacancy.

Disability Confident

We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme certified as Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This helps us to successfully employ and retain people with disabilities and health conditions. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview. The Equality Act 2010 (Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for NI) defines a disabled person as someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has sa substantial and long-term negative effect on their ability to do daily activities.

Neurodivergent

Neurodiverse individuals have highly valuable skills, and we recognise that a traditional interview process sometimes works against them and doesn’t allow them to self-advocate. Neurodiverse applicants who meet the criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview.