Fire Risk Assessor
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, Coventry, CV1 1FL
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Corporate Services
Closing date: 02 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400067478
Field based and Home with regular nationwide travel and possible overnight stays (business need car provided)
About the team
Sainsbury’s Corporate Services division brings together Group Safety & Insurance teams who play a critical role in protecting our customers, colleagues and operations. This team works across Sainsbury’s, Argos, and our wider property estate to ensure robust safety standards are in place and consistently followed. As part of this collaborative and supportive environment, you’ll work closely with site teams, FM, and Property colleagues, helping to shape and influence fire safety practices across a diverse national portfolio.
More about the role
As a Fire Risk Assessor, you’ll play a key role in delivering and continuously improving the fire risk assessment programme across stores, depots, Local Fulfilment Centres, and support offices. You’ll spend the majority of your time conducting fire risk assessments on-site, ensuring compliance with corporate fire safety standards and identifying opportunities to reduce risk.
Alongside site-based work, you’ll review and validate assessments, provide practical recommendations, and support the implementation of fire safety initiatives. You’ll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, offering advice and constructive challenge, and may also support fire incident investigations, producing clear reports with actionable outcomes.
More about you
You’ll bring a practical, solutions-focused approach, with the ability to interpret fire safety requirements and apply them effectively in a commercial environment. You’re comfortable working independently while managing a varied workload and adapting to changing business needs.
You build effective working relationships across functions and levels, using clear communication and influencing skills to support site teams in achieving compliance. You’ll also demonstrate a commitment to ongoing professional development and keeping your knowledge of fire safety standards up to date.
Essential criteria
- Holds a Level 4 Certificate in Fire Risk Assessment or can demonstrate commitment to achieving the qualification within an agreed timeframe.
- Demonstrable experience conducting or supporting risk assessments and producing documented findings and recommendations.
- Ability to interpret fire safety legislation or guidance and apply it within operational environments.
- Proven capability to plan and manage own workload, including coordinating site visits and meeting programme deadlines.
- Evidence of working collaboratively with stakeholders to implement risk mitigation actions or compliance improvements.
- Excellent communication skills and have an ability to communicate fire risk and good fire safety practice to all relevant persons
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
