Associate/Contractor - Lead Fire Safety Consultant
CompanyArk Workplace Risk
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeContract
Posted At4/13/2026
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Health and safety managers and officers
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
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Description
Lead Fire Safety Consultant | Hybrid | London & Surrounding | Contractor | Competitive Day Rate
At Ark Workplace Risk, we empower our clients to confidently manage risk, compliance, and safety through a trusted partnership built on expert knowledge, innovative solutions, and proactive guidance and insight.
About Ark Workplace Risk:
Benefits
At Ark Workplace Risk, we empower our clients to confidently manage risk, compliance, and safety through a trusted partnership built on expert knowledge, innovative solutions, and proactive guidance and insight.
About Ark Workplace Risk:
- Proven Expert Knowledge: With over 30 years of experience and a prestigious and diverse portfolio of around 200 UK clients, we provide workable solutions that align with our clients’ organisational and business goals, as well as regulatory requirements.
- Industry-Leading Software: Our innovative tools streamline risk and compliance management, putting clients in control and enabling them to demonstrate accountability to stakeholders.
- Insight-Driven Solutions: As industry thought leaders, we provide actionable insights into emerging legislation, guidance, and industry trends, ensuring court-readiness for their business.
- Responsive Partnership: From every day, business-as-usual guidance to urgent, critical, complex, and contentious scenarios, we work in partnership with clients, becoming their trusted advisor and solution provider, whenever and wherever they need us most.
Benefits
- Excellent professional development opportunities including training bursary.
- Working with our prestigious and diverse range of clients in the built environment, including residential and commercial.
- Opportunity to work on fire strategies for high-rise residential and complex buildings as well as various other fire safety assignments e.g. fire safety management systems as well as a variety of complex fire safety problems to solve.
Duties
- Undertake retrospective fire strategies, and complex Type 1,2,3,4 fire risk assessments in complex residential and commercial buildings.
- Reviewing and creating building safety management systems.
- Undertake complex compartmentation surveys and make recommendations.
- Develop a corporate fire safety management system across client portfolios.
- Act as an internal source of expertise for the consultants.
- Support clients with contentious matters including fire brigade interventions.
- Implement fire safety advice and site management systems, audits and reviews.
- Design fire management plans for existing buildings.
- Create fire safety solutions across a range of sites (varying in complexity) within the built environment.
- Work with colleagues across Ark to contribute to new projects and developments – we have an open culture and are always looking to share and expand on our knowledge!
- Monitoring of External Wall/ facade to confirm remedial work is assured.
- 5+ years experience working as a Fire Safety Consultant in the built environment.
- Extensive experience in undertaking fire specialist work e.g. fire strategies, fire management plans, and complex fire risk assessments in high risk commercial and residential buildings.
- Strong interpersonal skills and excellent report writing abilities to deliver client reports in accordance with a forensic and pragmatic approach.
- Comprehensive understanding of current UK building regulations e.g. Approved Document B.
- Working knowledge of relevant Approved Documents and relevant Standards including BS9991, BS9999, BS9997, PAS 9980 etc.
- Ongoing dedication to your CPD.
- Recognised fire safety memberships e.g. GIFireE or MIFireE or MIFSM
- EngTech ADVANTAGEOUS.
- We are offering a competitive package (subject to location, skills, experience and track record)
- The majority of our work is around London. This role also has a national remit and you will be required to travel outside of London from time to time, so you must have the flexibility and willingness to travel as required.
Ark is a market leader providing an innovative suite of; Professional Service Solutions, Outsourcing and future-proofed Software and Analytics to mid/major organisations in the UK. With over 500 global and premium brands trusting Ark to deliver smarter Risk, Compliance, Safety.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) for everyone. All applicants will be treated fairly and without prejudice. No one will receive less favourable treatment or be discriminated irrespective of the following protected characteristics: Age, disability, gender reassignment (and identity), marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex (formerly gender) and sexual orientation.