🔥 Ignite your career within our fire testing facility in High Wycombe! 🔥

Are you interested in pursuing a career in the fire industry?

Warringtonfire are looking for technical experts to join our expanding team in High Wycombe.  One of our most pivotal positions within the division is our Technical Officer role.

This is a great opportunity to develop your career within a Global TIC business. Warringtonfire exists to help make certain that the materials, products and processes that we test, inspect and certify for our customers are always safe, quality, compliant and fit for purpose. Warringtonfire is proud to be part of Element, the market leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification services. 

• Managing destructive fire resistance testing projects, from enquiry through to report, for construction products including but not limited to; fire doors, partitions, walls, floors, glazing systems, service penetration seals, and other site specific construction details
• Communicating with clients to ensure that testing requirements are fully understood and meet their end use application
• Liaison with Sales, Technical, Certification and Technician teams to ensure testing projects are ran smoothly and to the required standards
• Surveying test specimens to verify construction details against client supplied specifications
• Conducting tests in accordance with the appropriate test standards and internal procedures
• Operating the variety of test furnaces to expose test specimens to real world fire conditions, and evaluating their performance in resisting the spread of fire
• Preparation of technical drawings using AutoCAD
• Writing test reports with details of test methods, product performance, product specifications, technical drawings, test observations and test data
• Preparing quotations for testing projects including key requirements and associated costs
• Conducting duties with a strict degree of integrity, impartiality and confidentiality
• Providing technical guidance where required or requested

Required

• GCSE qualifications or equivalent in Maths and English to Grade C/4 or above,
• Good written and verbal communication skills,
• Proficient IT skills including MS Word and Excel
• An organised and methodical approach to work in a fast paced environment
• A professional, calm and confident disposition
• Willingness to learn skills and techniques quickly, and to ask questions
• Common sense, honesty, integrity, a good work ethic, self-discipline and attention to detail
• Ability to take pride in all tasks carried out, with a view of making the world a safer place

Ideally possess at least one of the following:

• Higher education qualifications in a STEM discipline or equivalent experience
• Practical laboratory experience with knowledge of calibration and instrumentation
• Knowledge of passive fire protection in the built environment, or other construction experience
• Customer service skills, with an ability to establish a quick rapport with visitors and clients
• Project management experience / qualification
• Experience of writing technical / test reports or academic papers

Other desirable skills/traits include:

• An appreciation of engineering and construction materials, with an interest in understanding how things are put together / work
• Basic knowledge of AutoCAD or other similar CAD software
• An ability to understand technical subjects and to explain them to others
• Good decision maker with practical problem-solving skills
• Methodical and measured approach to problem solving
• Other testing experience

Our site is in a rural location between Hughenden Valley and Naphill, which is most conveniently reached if you have your own transport

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Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 7,500 brilliant minds operating from 200 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.