Fire Protection Engineer

£60,000 to £70,000 plus great benefits including private healthcare, 28 days holiday, a pension with up to 10% employer contributions and a performance related bonus (Work Level 5).

Manchester City Centre, hybrid 

Full UK Driving License required

We’re looking for a Fire Protection Engineer to join our property team here at Co-op. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home, the office and visiting our sites nationwide (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy). 

As a Fire Protection Engineer, you’ll be part of a team who are responsible for design standards making sure they meet the right specifications and business obligations to maintain the Co-op estate. You’ll be involved in the capital investment for new space and refurbishments of up to £200 million a year. We’ll look to you to be our inhouse subject matter expert, making sure that we are always legally compliant in the fire category. This is a great time to join us here at Co-op, as we grow, you’ll join 400 construction professionals and specialists who make sure all our properties are safe and compliant for our colleagues and customers. 

What you’ll do

• Lead and innovate in the Fire category across property supporting all business units investment priorities
• Manage professional supply chain and contractors with access to professional services
• Manage and design model properties and look for continual improvement opportunities 
• Keep up to date with any lawful or building regulation changes to make sure our design standard and ways of working are updated accordingly
• Be responsible for the management of operational procedures with regular routine management peer review, including passive and active means of fire protection
• Look for continual improvements and provide technical advice in our supplier relationship management framework
• Lead a varied supply chain of consultants, contractors, and specialists in Fire category 
• Be future focussed and proactive to make a category that leads on best practise, is commercially optimised, and has a successful supply chain 

This role would suit people who have

• A degree in either engineering or building surveying 
• Experience in technical specification writing
• Experience as a technical specialist when looking at requirements for contractors and supply chain
• A strong design background with a good track record in refurbishment and maintenance activities in retail, commercial and industrial sectors
• Excellent influencing and communication skills with the ability to articulate technical language in a clear and simple way for all audiences to understand

Why Co-op? 

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays 
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Private healthcare for you
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
• YuLife app – rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities. 

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.