Job Description

The National Fire Safety Lead is responsible for providing strategic direction, technical leadership, and governance across all fire safety initiatives within the organization at a national level. This role ensures compliance with all relevant fire safety regulations, codes, and standards while driving best practices in fire engineering, risk management, and life safety systems.

The position works closely with multidisciplinary teams, senior leadership, and external stakeholders to deliver safe, compliant, and innovative fire safety solutions across projects and operations. The National Fire Safety Lead plays a critical role in influencing design, policy development, and continuous improvement of fire safety standards nationwide.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Scope of Role

• Technical and strategic lead of Introba’s National Safety Fire Engineering team.
• Champion fire engineering excellence, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, standards, and codes across all jurisdictions.
• Lead, grow, and inspire a high‑performing, fire engineering team, fostering a strong culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive business development initiatives, including client engagement, thought leadership, proposals, and identification of new market opportunities.
• Provide oversight and governance for complex fire safety engineering projects, ensuring technical quality, risk management, and successful outcomes.
• Act as an industry leader and trusted advisor in the fire safety space, representing the business at industry forums, with clients, regulators, and stakeholders.
• National role with responsibility for consistency, capability development, and service delivery across regions.

Experience & Capability

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in fire safety engineering,
• National registration requirements
• Strong technical fundamentals with the ability to work independently, exercise sound professional judgement, and take full accountability for technical outcomes.
• Demonstrated capability in multidisciplinary collaboration and coordination across engineering, design, construction, and regulatory teams.
• Highly organised and effective team leader, able to prioritise workloads, delegate appropriately, and support delivery across multiple concurrent projects.

Leadership & Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to clearly convey complex technical information to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, with a mentoring mindset and genuine commitment to developing junior and emerging professionals.
• Confident stakeholder manager, capable of building long‑term client relationships and engaging effectively with authorities and industry bodies.

Commercial & Strategic Focus

• Responsibility for key metrics such as; chargeability of the national fire safety engineering team, and running profitable projects
• Strong Business Development focus
• Proactive, commercially aware approach with a strong interest in contributing to business growth, market positioning, and long‑term team success.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with commercial outcomes, risk management, and strategic objectives.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of systems, processes, and delivery models at a national level.

Additional Information

Introba offers a comprehensive total rewards package. Our benefits may include medical*, disability* and life insurance coverage*, continuing education benefits, paid time off, employee assistance program and a retirement savings plan with company matching contributions. *Benefits will vary by country location and may only be available in US or Canada.

We encourage all candidates to explore our total rewards offering.

Collaboration, mission-driven focus, discipline, and leadership skills developed through military service benefit us all. Whether you are a Veteran, Guardsman or Reservist, a Military Spouse or you are planning to transition to civilian life in the near future, we welcome and value your application.

Introba is an equal opportunity employer, and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type as protected by federal, provincial, state or local laws. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. The company and its employees are required to comply with all local health authority, legal or lawful client requirements.