Job Description

Fire, Environmental, Health & Safety Consultant

Ark Workplace Risk | London & M25 | Permanent

At Ark Workplace Risk, we empower our clients to confidently manage risk, compliance, and safety through a trusted partnership built on expert knowledge, innovative solutions, and proactive guidance and insight.

About Ark Workplace Risk:

• Proven Expert Knowledge: With over 30 years of experience and a trusted reputation among 200+ UK organisations, we provide workable solutions that align with our clients’ organisational and business goals, as well as regulatory requirements.
• Industry-Leading Software: Our innovative tools streamline risk and compliance management, putting clients in control and enabling them to demonstrate accountability to stakeholders.
• Insight-Driven Solutions: As industry thought leaders, we provide actionable insights into emerging legislation, guidance, and industry trends, ensuring court-readiness for their business.
• Responsive Partnership: From every day, business-as-usual guidance to urgent, critical, complex, and contentious scenarios, we work in partnership with clients, becoming their trusted advisor and solution provider, whenever and wherever they need us most.

About the Role

Reporting into a Team Leader (each team is circa 5-7) and up to the Director of Professional Services, you will be joining a market leading team of professionals to undertake risk assessments, environmental audits and advise on fire, environmental, health and safety matters at mainly low-medium sized buildings, to our established portfolio of clients across a variety of segments, including, residential, commercial and retail.

Responsibilities:

• Undertake risk assessments including fire and health and safety, ensuring the earning target is met.
• Undertaking environmental audits against recognised standards.
• Undertake various fire, environmental, health and safety assignments within your competency.
• Deliver client reports within the agreed SLA, in accordance with a forensic and pragmatic approach to ensure the Ark ‘Gold Standard’ is achieved.
• Design health and safety site management systems where required, specific to client requirements.
• Undertake onsite briefings and advise on risk management improvements.
• Work collaboratively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with other consultants on learning opportunities to ensure we are constantly sharing knowledge across the team.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of controlling risks, compliances etc in relation to our online management system QUOODA
• Remain up to date with the Technical and regulatory requirements impacting our clients.
• The employee shall keep up with CPD in their own time as well as attend briefings and participate in CPD activities as directed by the Professional Services Director.
• The employee to make every effort to attend training and study plans.
• The employee shall carry out any reasonable request made by the line manager.

Practical Requirements:

The consultant has a full driving license and ability to drive/ travel by public transport to assignments.

Ability to facilitate hybrid working with home office that is suitable for connectivity to the office and clients, a safe and productive place to work conducive for delivering daily duties.

Benefits

• Private Healthcare plan.
• 5% matched pension plan.
• 4x salary life cover.
• 25 days holiday
• Perkpal - perks and reward program.
• Training bursary of £2,000 per year for the first two years of your employment.
• Professional Membership reimbursement.
• All tech provided including laptop, mobile etc.
• Excellent career and technical development opportunities (fast tracking professional development).
• Social events with your colleagues (Summer & Christmas parties, etc.).
• Working with our prestigious and diverse range of clients.

Why Work for Us

Ark is a market leader providing an innovative suite of; Professional Service Solutions, Outsourcing and future-proofed Software and Analytics to mid/major organisations in the UK. With over 500 global and premium brands trusting Ark to deliver smarter Risk, Compliance, Safety.

Reasons to join for us:

• An attractive package and training bursary contract.
• New game changing Building Safety software.
• Options to mentor others and management progression within Ark.
• Progress your career with continuous training and CPD opportunities.
• Ark is an innovative growing company that is recognised as a leader in safety within the built environment.
• Ark organises technical and knowledge sharing which is of enormous benefit to the Ark Professional Services Team.

We are committed to Equality, & (ED&I) for everyone. All applicants will be treated fairly and without prejudice. No one will receive less favourable treatment or be discriminated irrespective of the following protected characteristics: , , reassignment (and ), marriage and civil partnership status, and maternity, (including colour, , or origins), religion or belief, (formerly ) and .