Fire Safety Manager

Location: East of England Rate: £53,051 - £55,224 per annum Contract: Permanent

Spencer Clarke Group are supporting a local authority to appoint a Fire Safety Manager within their Housing and Property function.

This is a senior role leading the council's fire safety approach across its housing stock and related buildings. You will provide expert oversight on statutory compliance, develop and maintain fire strategies, lead a team delivering inspections and risk assessments, and manage a significant fire safety improvement programme and associated budgets.

Responsibilities include

• Acting as the council's lead fire safety specialist for housing stock, fulfilling delegated duty holder responsibilities
• Leading, supporting and performance managing a team of Fire Safety Surveyors, including workload planning and quality assurance
• Planning and completing fire risk assessments, then ensuring actions are tracked, allocated and closed out to a high standard
• Producing and maintaining fire strategies for a range of residential settings including sheltered schemes and general needs blocks
• Managing delivery of fire safety works and improvements, including budgets, supplier performance and consultancy support
• Working with internal teams and external stakeholders to maintain accurate building safety information and support Building Safety Act requirements
• Acting as the key contact for Fire and Rescue, supporting audits, responding to findings and coordinating remedial actions
• Supporting resident engagement and communications, and providing performance updates to senior stakeholders
• Ensuring ongoing compliance activity is maintained including checks, testing regimes, equipment maintenance and permit to work controls

About you

• Degree level or equivalent building-related professional qualification, with substantial post-qualification experience
• Strong experience of fire safety management within residential premises, ideally within social housing or a local authority setting
• Proven capability undertaking and quality assuring fire risk assessments and developing practical, compliant fire strategies
• Up to date knowledge of relevant fire safety legislation and associated compliance requirements
• Confident people manager with experience planning programmes of work across multiple sites and priorities
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to present clearly and influence at senior level
• IFE Level 4 Certificate in Fire Safety (desirable)
• NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety (desirable)

How to Apply Send your CV or get in touch with Cameron Nicholls at Spencer Clarke Group on or cn