Fire Safety Specialist

Job description / Role

- Develop, maintain, improve and enforce QF Fire prevention and protection procedures
- Provide fire protection technical input on passive and active systems during project concept and detailed design in all new projects
- Provide fire protection technical input on passive and active systems during management of change processes which affect life safety systems
- Conduct regular fire safety inspections and ensure that QF facilities comply with NFPA standards
- Witness, on behalf of QF life safety, systems testing and commissioning during new projects or the installation of new systems
- Develop fire safety system inspection checklists to ensure thorough assessments
- Conduct fire risk assessments
- Develop an inventory of Qatar Civil Defence (QCD) certificates for all QF facilities and ensure that they are renewed and updated
- Organize and execute fire safety awareness campaigns and technical training for building occupants, security guards and contractors
- Conduct fire investigations and produce fire investigation reports that include root causes and corrective actions
- Create scope of services for the delivery of specialized technical fire safety consultations
- Share lessons learned with CPD related to fire safety design challenges from previous projects
- Uses, interprets and applies fire safety codes and standards to all new projects
- Maintain currency of knowledge and skills with all new fire safety-related codes and standards
- Liaise and coordinate with QCD on matters related to national standards and building recertification
- Propose and design work processes and systems to enable the business function to achieve its business objectives
- Conduct fire safety design reviews for temporary structures
- Other reasonable tasks as assigned by supervisor

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Fire Engineering, or equivalent training
- Training certification in presentation and communication skills
- Thorough knowledge of NFPA standards, IBC and other relevant fire codes, and other regulatory or professional standards agencies and standards
- 10 years of experience in fire code enforcement, with at least 5 years at the supervisory level
- Good interpersonal, communication, presentation and leadership skills
- Excellent resource management skills, project management skills, and leadership qualities
- Proficiency in MS Office and relevant software applications
- Good writing skills - the ability to draft / edit a variety of written reports and communications and articulate ideas clearly and concisely. Arabic proficiency preferred

About the Company

Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a private, non-profit organization that serves the people of Qatar by supporting and operating programs in three core mission areas: education, science and research, and community development.

The Foundation strives to nurture the future leaders of Qatar. By example and by sharing its experience, the Foundation also contributes to human development nationally, regionally, and internationally. In all of its activities, the Foundation promotes a culture of excellence in Qatar and furthers its role in supporting an innovative and open society that aspires to develop sustainable human capacity, social, and economic prosperity for a knowledge-based economy.