Consultant/Senior Consultant - Fire & Life Safety

British Safety Council India; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

British Safety Council India seeks a Consultant/Sr. Consultant - Fire & Life Safety to lead audit delivery and QA, ensuring services meet internal standards and client expectations.

The role may involve extensive travel and delivers health and safety audits and consultancy across clients’ sites. You will support sales with technical inputs, manage recruitment and training, and contribute to developing new products while maintaining technical validity and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Degree in Fire or Fire & Safety Engineering.
• NEBOSH Diploma or Advanced Diploma in Industrial Safety.
• Auditing protocols experience.
• Fire safety management understanding.
• Strong IT skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Good verbal and written communication.
• Exposure to Safety Culture Change.

Responsibilities

• Deliver OH&S audit and consultancy products as required.
• Interface with Sales and Ops for technical inputs.
• Ensure QA review of consultancy deliveries.
• Recruit, induct and train audit personnel.
• Support development of new audit products.

Skills

Auditing protocols

Leadership

Communication skills

Technical safety knowledge

Behavioral Safety

Wellbeing knowledge

Education

Degree in Fire or Fire & Safety Engineering

NEBOSH Diploma or Advanced Diploma in Industrial Safety

Familiar with NFPA/NBC Codes & Standards

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Title: Consultant/Sr. Consultant - Fire & Life Safety

Reporting to: Senior Head of Audit & Consultancy

Primary Job Purpose:

• Ownership of planning and managing the audit delivery and quality assurance functions to ensure that audit and consultancy products and services are delivered to the highest possible standards.
• Deliver British Safety Council audit products and services in accordance with internal standards and processes.
• Support Senior Head of Audit and Consultancy in the preparation or delivery of strategic activity and projects.
• As Lead, ensure adequate resourcing and delivery of development or other projects where allocated.
• Support the development, maintenance, marketing and sales of audit and consultancy products and services.
• Support provision of appropriate technical support and guidance for sales and operations personnel as required
• Managing delivery partners with respect to recruitment, induction, delivery, standardization and QA.
• This role may involve prolonged travelling and service delivery cover at short notice.

Key Responsibilities:

• To deliver British Safety Council OH&S audit and consultancy products / services as required.
• Support Sales team from technical inputs perspectives while interfacing the potential clients.
• To support QA review of OH&S consultancy deliveries as per operational process.
• To manage the Audit Support inbox, scoping and all queries to and from Sales and Ops teams.
• To support the root cause investigation and corrective actions, relating to complaints and/or appeals arising from audit and/or consultancy deliveries as directed by Head of Audit and consultancy.
• To manage the recruitment, induction and ongoing training of audit and consultancy personnel as directed by Senior Head of Audit and Consultancy.
• To provide technical support for audit consultancy product development and maintenance projects as directed by Senior Head of Audit and Consultancy.
• To advise and support (including attending client meetings as appropriate) sales and operational personnel to ensure appropriate scoping and resourcing of audit and consultancy services.
• Engage with Operations and Associates and make decisions about where support is needed.
• Support Senior Head of Audit & Consultancy in development of new products.
• To support the maintenance of the individual products within the portfolio to ensure: (i) they remain technically valid; (ii) opportunities for improvement are identified (iii) delivery methods and working practices are efficient (iv) future revenue streams are maximized.
• To support the liaison with internal departments to promote product and service awareness and provide technical input to tendering bids as required.
• To ensure efficiency as well as adequacy of all processes working with internal and external stakeholders including operations, sales and IT. Optimum use of software and IT to achieve this where possible.
• Maintain professional competency and CPD requirements as appropriate.

Health & Safety:

To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and of other persons who may be affected by your acts or omissions at work; and to co-operate with the British Safety Council so far as is necessary to enable it to ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of all its employees.

Person Specifications:

Skills & Qualifications

• Degree in Fire or Fire & Safety Engineering
• Demonstrable experience of auditing protocols and processes
• NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety or Advanced Diploma in Industrial Safety
• Breadth and depth of understanding of the fire safety management
• Industry experience in an operational or leadership capacity
• Evidence of strong IT skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Excel
• Evidence of strong verbal and written (inc. report writing) influencing and communication skills.
• Technical knowledge and experience of a range of safety, health and environmental management principles, tools and techniques.
• Exposure to Behavioral Safety and Safety Culture Change.
• Basic knowledge of Wellbeing.

Experience

• Suitable experience (12-15 years minimum) implementing Fire Safety management systems
• Demonstrable experience of client relationship management
• Experience in a fire safety & OHS consultancy role
• Familiar with NFPA , NBC Codes& Standards.

Behavioural Competence

• Behaviours as detailed in the Values Statement
• Planning and organisation

What you can expect from us

British Safety Council is committed to be an equal opportunity employer and building an inclusive workplace. You’ll join an organisation that has a good Diversity, Equity and Inclusion culture. As an organisation, we proactively support the needs that difference brings. The exposure to variety of industries and companies is an integral part of the role profile as part of health and safety audits, consultancy and trainings delivered at clients’ sites and making impact through these touch points.

BSC empowers its employees and creates an atmosphere for innovation and innovative spirit of the employees is looked at with appreciation.