Fire Safety

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa ERM Group Full time

At ERM, we have the opportunity, every day, to make an impact at scale with our clients to solve global climate, carbon, ESG, and sustainability challenges. We work on challenging and interesting projects with influential and exciting clients to get real results. In our professional business enablement functions, we provide solutions, advice and services to power our business, because what we do matters in the world.

People are at the heart of our operation. We are built around a Partnership model where ERM Partners are the shareholding managers and leaders of the organization. This creates a strong community, united by the impact of our work. Our people lean on and learn from each other, collaborating in a way that includes everyone's voices and encourages all to thrive. Inclusive collaboration is the driving force in creating a compassionate workplace that blends with our high performance culture.

Job Profile Summary

ERM is looking for a motivated Fire Risk Safety & Technical Risk Consultant to join its Africa Safety Service and Technical Risk team in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Job Responsibilities

As a consultant joining our team, your key focus will be to support the successful delivery of ERM projects. Technically, the consultant should have experience in some or all of the following areas, for example:

- Safety and Fire Risk auditing (due diligence, compliance, verification).
- Fire Risk reviews on industrial and / or Mining facilities against NFPA standards or similar.
- Facilitation of Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPs).
- Facilitation and Compilation of Bow Tie’s and reports utilizing Bowtie XP or similar.
- A basic working knowledge of Risk Assessments (Baseline; FMECA; Issue based; SIL; FTA’s; Haz-ids; LOPA’s etc. on a range of industrial operations such as Mining, Power, Pharmaceutical, Chemicals, Oil and Gas, Food and Beverage etc.)
- A knowledge of Behavioral and Human Factors safety concepts.
- Understanding of South African and the wider African H&S legal requirements.
- Fire and other Risk data management and analysis.
- Experience in resource efficiency and optimization on a range of different types of industrial sites
- Working knowledge of climate change services (carbon foot printing, life cycle assessments, climate risk, etc.)

As Consultant within the team, you will be responsible for:

- Managing or coordinating small to medium size projects or elements of larger multidisciplinary projects - as ERM works closely with some of the world’s largest organizations, we anticipate that this role will require close collaboration with our European and other global Safety & Risk teams as well as across our offices in Africa.
- Delivering and supporting on multiple project tasks or components of projects,
- Understanding the interrelationships between ERM services and policies and how these are applied within the clients’ business model.
- Establishing strong working relationships with clients through project delivery.
- Supporting the Safety Services team in developing and growing the Safety & Risk services in South Africa and Africa, particularly related to fire risk services.
- Support with Client liaison, support on proposal preparation and costing,
- Client coaching on relevant project related support and
- Adhering to ERM Southern Africa’s and Global Risk’s policies and procedures.

You will be part of our interdisciplinary and international team and will collaborate with ERM offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. Travel within South Africa, Southern Africa and on occasion to global destinations will be required to fulfil some of the above requirements.

Skills & Requirements
- Engineering Degree, ideally in the field of Fire Engineering, Chemical or Process safety, Technical Risk or Mechanical Engineering.
- Experience in aspects of Fire Risk Safety, including NFPA and similar fire standard requirements, Behavioral safety and Human Factor programmes, risk management concepts including baseline risk assessments, risk control strategies task risk and continuous risk management.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Technical or Fire Safety/Risk fields after your academic qualification.
- At least 2 years of this experience should be in a technical or fire risk related consulting environment.
- Commercial acumen, and basic project management skills.
- Excellent liaison and communication (both verbal and written) skills within ERM and Client Stakeholder groups.
- Experience with using data and technology to support clients with Safety solutions.
- Willingness to travel.
- Ability to work under pressure.

Thank you for your interest in ERM

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