Senior Fire Surveyor

Axion Consultancy Ltd is a specialist fire safety engineering and fire safety compliance business within the Riskhub Group, offering fire safety services including fire risk assessments, fire door inspections, asset surveys, fire strategy and fire engineering services. The team works closely with housing associations, local authorities, and building stock managers to ensure their properties remain safe, compliant, and audit-ready — managing the scheduling, tracking, and completion of large-scale compliance programmes across complex property portfolios.

This is a fast-paced, data-intensive operational environment where delivery excellence, analytical rigour, and strong people leadership are essential.

Reports to: Fire Risk Management Director

Location: Remote — a mix of site-based surveying, working from home and time in our London hub (Farringdon)

Employment Type: Full-time, permanent — we are also open to engaging the right individual as a trusted sub-contractor (see below)

Hours of work: 40 hours per week

Salary: £50,000 – £70,000 depending on experience and depth of technical knowledge (permanent) / competitive day rate (sub-contract)

Axion Consultancy is part of the Riskhub Group. We’re a passionate and collaborative team united by a shared goal: revolutionising property compliance through innovative technology. We take immense pride in our achievements, knowing that none of it would be possible without the dedication and talent of our people. As an energetic, forward-thinking business, we are all about our people. We are growing rapidly year-on-year and it’s the people within the business that powers it.

We are on the lookout for dedicated, ambitious colleagues who want to be part of a team where everyone’s ideas are welcome, and everyone’s role is essential to our collective growth and success. The core set of behaviours that characterise our ethos and drive everything we do are:

We speak clearly, honestly and with passion for what we do.

We take time to understand problems so we can give confident solutions.

We are a unified team, developing Riskhub together, because we believe what we’re doing is good.

Everyone’s ideas are valid and welcome.

Our entire team is empowered to make decisions.

We get things done.

This is a senior, hands-on surveying role at the centre of our fire safety compliance and remediation work. You will lead fire risk assessment and survey instructions across residential, mixed-use and complex portfolios — from Type 1 through to intrusive Type 4 assessments, external wall appraisals and compartmentation surveys — and turn what you find on site into clear, defensible advice our clients can act on.

You will also act as a checker and technical reference point for others, and your expertise will directly shape how a growing consultancy delivers.

We are equally interested in fire surveyors and building surveyors with strong fire competence. If you can evidence the competence to deliver all or most of the responsibilities below, we would like to talk to you.

• Complete Fire Risk Assessments (to include residential Type 1 to Type
  4), including intrusive assessments and construction-phase FRAs, in line with PAS 79, BS 9792and applicable guidance;
• Carry out site surveys in support of Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls (FRAEW) works under PAS 9980, gathering the evidence needed to support appraisal and remediation decisions;
• Undertake compartmentation surveys, identifying and reporting on breaches, deficiencies and remedial priorities;
• Support external wall remediation projects, including survey work, opening-up strategies, specification input and monitoring of remedial works;
• Conduct RIBA Stage 5 inspections on new build projects, reporting on compliance against the approved fire strategy and design intent;
• Produce fire safety technical notes, survey reports and remediation recommendations that are clear, evidence-based and appropriate to the audience;
• Apply a working understanding of fire engineering principles in support of design and consultancy works, including ADB,…