Principal Administrator – Business Fire Safety – South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue

Principal Administrator – Business Fire Safety – South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue

An opportunity has arisen within our Business Fire Safety section for a Principal Administrator, based at Barnsley Fire Station, Broadway, Barnsley, S70 6QZ
/Agile working.

The overall purpose of the role will be to provide an efficient and effective administrative support service to the Business Fire Safety Department within the Protection function, including the operation of all office and administrative systems in accordance with SYFR procedures.

You will be required to input and retrieve information from our current database in order to assist with statistical returns. You will also carry out routine administrative duties such as the production of general correspondence, monitoring and managing the District based email addresses.

To be considered for this role you will have previous supervisory experience, be able to plan, manage and prioritise workloads.

You must possess Administration qualification NVQ level 3 or equivalent, and have a working knowledge of MS Office Applications, particularly Word, Excel and Outlook.

You will also have proven experience in administration work, working in an accurate, efficient manner in order to meet tight deadlines.

The key duties will include:

• Processing Incoming>
• Use of Microsoft Applications in particular Outlook, Word, Excel
• Telephone Queries
• Review of internal applications to issue inspections to Business Fire Safety Inspectors, such as follow up to fires and follow ups to Unwanted Fire Signals
• Allocation of Inspection and follow up work for Business Fire Safety Inspectors
• Input and retrieval of information from database in order to assist in statistical reports
• Data Cleansing
• Deputise for the Protection Administration Officer and be the single point of contact in their absence
• Organise and take minutes of regular departmental meetings

For more information about the role contact Katrina Hinchliffe on

To apply please download a copy the application form and the

Job Description / Person Specification.
Within your application please detail how your skills and experience meet each of the essential criteria listed on the person specification with examples.

A job description and person specification for the role can be obtained via our website at or by contacting our Recruitment Team

Closing date for applications is 1700 hours on 23 January 2026.