Fire Surveyor

Use your construction and passive-fire experience to investigate buildings, assess existing conditions, and help clients understand what needs to happen next.

Someone with hands-on construction or passive fire protection experience, comfortable on site, and confident turning findings into clear, prioritised reports.

Exposure to a wide range of building types and sectors, support to develop towards chartered status, and a genuine stake in the business.

Essential Skills and Experience

Qualifications, memberships and registration

Essential:

• Industry qualification such as a BTEC HNC/HND in Building Studies or Civil Engineering as a minimum, or Construction, Surveying or Engineering Degree.
• Membership of the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE).

Desirable:

• Engineering Council accredited Bachelor’s degree with honours in engineering.
• Engineering Council accredited or approved Master’s degree or approved further learning to Master’s level.
• CSCS card holder.
• Holding or willing to work towards Fire Risk Assessor accreditation.

Skills and experience

Essential:

• Approx. 2 years’ practical experience of working in the construction industry in a similar capacity, dealing with quality control and/or enforcement of codes and standards (inspection and/or verification of fire protection installations).
• Share in our vision to ensure that people can live, work, and sleep safe from the effects of fire.
• Self-motivation to learn and develop to become professionally registered with the Engineering Council.
• Enthusiasm to become part of an Employee-Owned Company.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Surveying software.

As a Tenos Fire Surveyor, you will be involved in a wide variety of interesting Projects and will have the opportunity to broaden your skillset and develop specialisms in line with your interests.

You will be working with experienced Fire Surveyors and Engineers to assess and evaluate the adequacy of both active and passive fire protection installations in buildings benchmarked against fire tests reports, manufacturers literature and/or certification to determine compliance, or otherwise, with the statutory requirements.

The Projects are situated across the UK and are varied in nature, such as Schools, Hospitals, Residential, Commercial and Public Buildings. You will be involved in desktop reviews and site surveys, liaising with clients and their representatives, generating survey field reports from a tablet using a proprietary software application.

You will develop fee proposal and scope of service documents. You will be required to attend site visits; client / project team meetings and engage with enforcing authorities. You will adhere to and uphold Tenos Quality Assurance procedures throughout the organisation.

Our development programme will help advance your core technical knowledge and consultancy skills to support your application to become professionally registered with the Engineering Council.

Technical

• Independent application of Core Technical Knowledge e.g., fire industry codes and standards, tested or certified details, and industry best practice on simple projects.
• Develop peripheral Core Technical Knowledge e.g., product knowledge and testing standards through observation, shadowing of more senior colleagues and self-development.
• Attend as an individual or accompany colleagues on site visits and client / project team meetings.
• Adhere to Health & Safety guidelines, working in accordance with Risk Assessment Method Statements (RAMS).
• Produce accurate and…