Fire Risk Assessment Validator

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.

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.

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 they 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 dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all.

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.

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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.

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We are looking for someone with strong technical knowledge and practical experience within fire risk assessment, ideally across both…