Authorising Engineer (Fire)

The Authorising Engineer (Fire) reports to the Senior Authorising Engineer (SAE) for the delivery of:

Quality Assurance & Compliance:

• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for fire doors and compartmentation. Develop and establish the governance and reporting requirements to ensure full statutory, regulatory, and contractual compliance across all in-scope fire assets and operations.
• Develop and maintain third-party accreditations (e.g. UKAS-accredited fire door inspection schemes) to evidence assurance to clients and regulators.
• Undertake structured audits, inspections and assurance reviews, ensuring corrective actions are recorded, reported and closed out and compliance is evidenced.
• Maintain robust technical records, certifications and assurance outputs for auditability and reporting.

Risk Management & Technical Assurance:

• Horizon-scan for emerging legislation, standards, and industry best practices, assessing their potential impact and ensuring EMCOR UK remains proactive and forward-thinking in its approach to compliance.
• Provide independent assurance to the SAE and F&S Director, escalating risk and resilience issues to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement in fire safety governance.
• Provide technical support to colleagues involving high-risk fire mitigation activities, providing SME-level oversight and intervention when required.
• Record identified fire risks onto RAIDD Logs, Assurance Dashboards and reports for governance.

Policy, Process & Continuous Improvement:

• Develop and implement EMCOR UK policies and procedures to meet legal, regulatory and client requirements.
• Draft, peer review and issue compliance bulletins, directives and technical guidance notes to deliver standards across accounts.
• Capture lessons learned from incidents, corrective actions from audits into revised processes and training, where required.
• Drive continuous improvement by benchmarking EMCOR UKs approach against industry leaders (BM Trada, FDIS, FIRAS, CIBSE, SFG20 etc.).

• Derive the appropriate Fire Compartmentation requirements of EMCOR UKs Competency Management System (CMS).
• Support the identification, assessment and periodic monitoring of
  Authorised Persons and ensure appropriate registers are maintained.
• Develop training frameworks and partnerships with accredited providers, ensuring training effectiveness is evaluated and evidenced.
• Provide guidance, mentoring and technical development opportunities for individuals delivering passive fire safety services.

Collaboration, Client Engagement & Tender Support:

• Provide SME assurance support to account mobilisation and client engagement, establishing baseline compliance, ‘get well’ plans and training and assessment requirements.
• Establish a ‘Community of Practice’ to encourage collaboration across account teams to ensure consistent application of policies, procedures and standards across the portfolio.
•  Actively built strong relationships with customers, Supply Chain Partners and internal teams to ensure a collaborative assurance culture.

• No direct reports but functional Authority over account/sector APs (Fire) and CPs (Fire) for matters relating to technical assurance.
• Role reports directly into the SAE for independent assurance outputs.
• Responsible for sign-off of certification on behalf of EMCOR UK under the 3rd Party UKAS Accreditation (BM Trada, FDIS, FIRAS, BlueSky or similar).UKAS Accreditation (BM Trada, FDIS, FIRAS, BlueSky or similar).

• Ability and willingness to travel and stay away occasionally throughout England, Wales and Scotland.
• Must hold a valid UK Driving License.
• Participation required in corporate induction, learning and ongoing professional development.
• Required to wear corporate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• To have a professional approach to work alongside our prestige customers.
•  Attendance at EMCOR UK leadership meetings, financial reviews, business updates as required.