Centralised Fire Watch Black Hat; Non- Supervisor

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Employing Company: NRL Ltd

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Centralised Fire Watch Black Hat (Non-Working Supervisor)
NRL Solutions (Arabelle Solutions)
Hinkley Point C

Provide dedicated non-working leadership and operational control of the Centralised Fire Watch function across the UK3011 scope, initially within HM1. Ensure safe, competent and efficient deployment of fire watching resources across multiple contractors and hot work locations, maintaining compliance with Principal Contractor requirements and effective fire prevention and emergency response arrangements.

Lead the centralised Fire Watch organisation as the accountable operational supervisor for deployment, coordination and assurance. This is a non-working supervisory role; routine fire watching is not a primary duty.

• Direct and coordinate Fire Watch Blue Hats and Fire Watchers from Arabelle Solutions and participating Tier 2 contractors.
• Attend the Plan of the Week (PLOW) and Plan of the Day (PLOD) meetings to forecast demand, confirm workfaces and establish daily deployment plans.
• Maintain sufficient coverage and resilience for breaks, sickness, absence, shift changes and changing construction priorities.
• Serve as the primary operational interface with Construction, Permit Office, EHS, Fire Safety and contractor management; incorporate hot works status into established shift handovers.

• Assess simultaneous hot work demand and allocate resources based on approved work arrangements, hazards, access, supervision and response capability.
• Verify that flexible coverage of adjacent workfaces is justified by the point of work risk assessment (POWRA), with effective monitoring and response arrangements (approximately 10 metres or 15 seconds walking time where applicable).
• Verify appropriate workface supervision, communication, access, firefighting equipment and emergency escalation arrangements.
• Stop or require reassessment of arrangements when work scope, combustibles, access, visibility or surveillance conditions change, or safe monitoring cannot be assured.

• Verify compliance with the approved Centralised Fire Watch Management Plan, applicable Principal Contractor fire safety and hot work requirements, permits and Fire Watcher Passport Scheme.
• Carry out field assurance checks covering combustible controls, fire sterile areas, openings and penetrations, fire watch provision and required post-hot-work cooldown monitoring.
• Confirm Fire Watchers are trained, authorised and competent; coach Blue Hats, support assessments and identify training needs.
• Record non-compliances, emerging trends and corrective actions, escalating unresolved risks appropriately.

• Act as escalation point for concerns, ensure effective emergency communications and support response, incident reviews and lessons learned.
• Monitor resource utilisation, coverage, training, compliance and deployment effectiveness; provide periodic performance updates and improvement recommendations.
• Support safe construction delivery without compromising required fire prevention and response outcomes.

• Completion and effectiveness of planned Fire Watch coverage, including shift handover and contingency arrangements.
• Compliance findings, overdue corrective actions and repeat non-conformances.
• Competence and Fire Watcher Passport currency, training completion and supervision effectiveness.
• Fire Watch utilisation, unfulfilled demand, deployment efficiency and avoidable hot work disruption.
• Fire-related incidents, near misses and implementation of lessons learned.

Site-based supervisory role supporting planned day and night coverage, potentially including weekends and shift handovers.

Operates across multiple construction workfaces and contractors, with initial deployment to HM1 and expansion subject to approval. Must participate in operational planning, field assurance and incident-related reviews. This is a non-working supervisory post.

• Be a holder of a current CITB MAPS certificate or CCNSG,
• Be competent with the Microsoft packages – Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point;
• ISO
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