Engineer (Fire Safety) Degree Apprenticeship

We’ll support you to become a fully qualified Fire Safety Engineer, as you support us to safeguard our customers and our homes from the risk of fire.  

As a Degree Apprentice Fire Safety Engineer within our Building Safety team, we’ll support you through a five-year programme to develop the skills, knowledge and qualifications needed to assess the hazards and risks of fire across our housing stock – supporting us to mitigate potential damage by ensuring proper design & construction principles and fire safety systems are in place to keep our customers safe.

Whilst you study for a BSc (Hons) Fire Safety Engineering degree at Birmingham City University, we’ll provide you with a broad range of hands-on opportunities to put your learning into practice - allowing you to gain real-world experience as we develop you to be able to:

• Apply the principles of and undertake Fire Risk Assessments across our homes.
• Support the effective delivery of contracted fire prevention / safety equipment installation and maintenance services - ensuring delivery is in-line with contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Identify failings and make recommendations for improvements - engaging with internal and external stakeholders to improve fire safety awareness and practices.

Having benefitted from a broad range of support, including guidance from seasoned industry professionals and our senior leadership team, your five-year apprenticeship will culminate in you gaining sector leading experience, a recognised degree, and membership of the Institute of Fire Engineers – the industry gold standard for fire engineering professionals.

Our entry requirements? To be eligible to apply, you must have achieved:

• A minimum of five GCSEs graded 9-4 (A** to C) must include English and Mathematics, or equivalent and;
• A minimum of three A-levels Grades C or above or equivalent qualification.

Who are Midland Heart? We’re a large and ambitious housing organisation providing more people an affordable place to call home. We welcome colleagues from every walk of life, at every stage of their career. We expect a lot from our people but in return you can be assured of a great place to work, where you will be well rewarded and where great people are able to succeed. Whether you want to build your career with us, or use your experience to move on, we’re here to develop your potential.

Interested? Click on "Information for Candidates" below, for a full Role Profile. Applying is easy – simply register on our candidate portal and complete our application form, which will enable us to start to get to know you.

Application close at 9:00am on Tuesday 28th February 2023. 

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss any adjustments you might need in order to be successful in this role.