Fire and Safety Lead

About this role

About Us We are Ocado Group, and we're bringing world-class automation to online grocery. Our Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) combines cutting-edge robotics, AI, and IoT within our advanced CFCs (Customer Fulfilment Centres). We've mastered the single pick, transforming online delivery for our global partners. Join us and be part of a team pushing the boundaries of retail technology. About the Role Lead Ocado's global fire safety governance and assurance framework, operating directly within the corporate Health, Safety, Fire, and Environmental (HSFE) function.

In this role, you will evaluate fire risk through both life safety, property protection and business continuity perspectives, providing expert guidance, oversight, and constructive challenge to product engineering and operations teams. As the organisation's principal fire safety competent person, you will advise and influence senior stakeholders while contributing to the broader HSFE strategic agenda. Key Responsibilities Owning the Group's fire safety standards, methodology and assurance approach, giving competent, independent advice and challenge across every operating territory.

Operating as a second-line function: advising business operations and engineering functions on fire risk and legal compliance, testing the effectiveness of controls and holding first-line operations to account, without owning their decisions. Integrating fire risk into the Group's wider HSFE risk, governance and assurance framework. Providing specialist technical review of entry into new territories, and ensuring fire safety considerations are embedded into contract negotiations, design, project delivery, engineering and change from concept onwards.

Advising the business on emerging thermal risks that come with robotic automation and scale, including lithium-ion battery systems, thermal events and high-bay environments. Leading the Group's external fire safety relationships with regulators, fire and rescue authorities, and 3rd party auditors Contributing breadth across the wider HSFE Governance function: shared governance frameworks, accountability models, competence and role definitions, committee structures and assurance approaches beyond fire alone.