Fire and Safety Lead

Ocado Group is recruiting: Fire and Safety Lead, based in Hatfield, United Kingdom.

About the role: In this role, you will evaluate fire risk through both life safety, property protection and business continuity perspectives, providing expert guidance, oversight, and constructive challenge to product engineering and operations teams.

What you would be doing:

• Owning the Group's fire safety standards, methodology and assurance approach, giving competent, independent advice and challenge across every operating territory.
• Operating as a second-line function: advising business operations and engineering functions on fire risk and legal compliance, testing the effectiveness of controls and…
• Integrating fire risk into the Group's wider HSFE risk, governance and assurance framework.
• Providing specialist technical review of entry into new territories, and ensuring fire safety considerations are embedded into contract negotiations, design, project…
• Advising the business on emerging thermal risks that come with robotic automation and scale, including lithium-ion battery systems, thermal events and high-bay…
• Leading the Group's external fire safety relationships with regulators, fire and rescue authorities, and 3rd party auditors

What they are looking for:

• Degree-level qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g. risk management, fire safety,or built-environment discipline), or an equivalent recognised professional…
• Current professional membership, at a grade evidencing professional competence, of a recognised fire safety, risk management or related institution (e.g. Institute of…
• Experience of fire risk management in a relevant industrial setting, including at Group, multi-site and multi-jurisdictional level, with demonstrable strategic and…
• Demonstrable competence to determine and oversee fire risk assessment methodology, standards and competent-person requirements, and to direct, commission and…
• Experience advising and influencing senior operational leaders on fire risk, translating complex technical issues into clear business-risk, decision-ready advice.

What the employer says it offers:

• Time to recharge: 25 days annual leave (rising to 27 after 5 years), plus the option to buy more – and 30 days a year to work from anywhere in the world.
• Health & wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance from your first month, wellbeing support through specialist apps and EAP, plus Income Protection and Life Assurance.
• Family-first policies: 22 weeks paid maternity/primary carer leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave
• Financial support: Pension with employer matching up to 7%, share schemes (Sharesave & BAYE), and interest-free loans for train tickets.
• Commuter perks: Cycle to Work Scheme and free shuttle buses to/from Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City stations.
• Exclusive discounts: 15% off at Ocado.com with free delivery (starting in your first month).

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