Fire Safety Risk Assessor

weServed; Taunton (MA); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP & annual health check

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Paid reserve service leave

Job summary

At Cavendish Nuclear, a global leader in nuclear services, we are seeking a Fire Safety Assessor to join the team at Hinkley Point C. This full-time role involves conducting fire risk assessments across commissioning and operational phases, contributing to safe site commissioning and long-term operational resilience.

You will review facilities and processes, produce reports, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure compliance with fire safety standards.

Qualifications

• Experience carrying out fire risk assessments within industrial or highly regulated environments.
• Strong practical knowledge of fire safety legislation, standards, and best practices.
• Experience producing detailed reports and presenting findings to stakeholders.
• Ability to identify, assess, and manage fire-related risks within complex facilities.
• Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to achieve safety and compliance objectives.

Responsibilities

• Conducting fire risk assessments across operational and commissioning environments.
• Reviewing facilities, systems, and processes to identify fire safety risks and improvement opportunities.
• Producing clear assessment reports and recommending appropriate control measures.
• Collaborating with project teams, operational stakeholders, and fire safety specialists to ensure compliance.
• Supporting the continuous development and implementation of fire safety standards across site activities.

Skills

Fire risk assessments

Fire safety legislation

Report writing

Stakeholder communication

Team collaboration

Education

Level 4 Fire Safety

Job description

Job Title: Fire Safety Assessor

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76885

Help protect the future of one of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Fire Safety Assessor at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the commissioning and future operation of a nationally important nuclear facility. Joining our Fire Safety team, you'll play a vital role in helping ensure the safety, compliance, and resilience of a complex, highly regulated environment while developing your expertise alongside industry specialists.

The role

As a Fire Safety Assessor, you'll support critical fire safety and fire risk assessment activities across Hinkley Point C. Your work will directly contribute to the safe commissioning of the site and help establish the foundations for its long-term operational success. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a landmark project where your expertise will have a visible impact on both public safety and the UK's energy future.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Conducting fire risk assessments across operational and commissioning environments.
• Reviewing facilities, systems, and processes to identify fire safety risks and improvement opportunities.
• Producing clear assessment reports and recommending appropriate control measures.
• Collaborating with project teams, operational stakeholders, and fire safety specialists to ensure compliance.
• Supporting the continuous development and implementation of fire safety standards across site activities.

This is a full-time, 37-hour per week role based at Hinkley Point C. This position is primarily site-based, with flexibility available for occasional home working when required for personal appointments

Essential experience of the Fire Safety Assessor:

• Demonstrable experience carrying out fire risk assessments within industrial or highly regulated environments.
• Strong practical knowledge of fire safety legislation, standards, and best practices.
• Experience producing detailed reports and presenting findings to stakeholders.
• Ability to identify, assess, and manage fire-related risks within complex facilities.
• Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to achieve safety and compliance objectives.

Qualifications for the Fire Safety Assessor:

• Level 4 Fire Safety qualification, or the ability to achieve and hold this qualification within the required timeframe.
• Relevant fire risk assessment and fire safety training.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 28/10/2026

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