Fire Integrity Manager

The University of Southampton is seeking to make the appointment to the role of Fire Integrity Manager.

The University of Southampton is a leading research-intensive University, a founding member of the prestigious Russell Group, and one of the top 100 universities worldwide. We deliver excellent educational experience and world-leading research, and we are known for successfully commercialising our research through enterprise.

The University has a diverse estate, property and land portfolio spanning several campuses, including the main Highfield campus, the City Centre Campus, Avenue Campus, the Boldrewood Innovation Campus, and the Winchester School of Art. The Estates & Facilities Team ensure that the University has a built and physical environment that supports the activities of a world-class University, across a portfolio of academic, state of the art research, clinical, enterprise, workspace, residential, social amenity, sport and community facilities. Ambitious plans are afoot with an estates masterplan that will see £1bn of investment in enhancing and delivering a sustainable, inclusive estate over the next decade.

Reporting to the Site Safety Operations Manager, the Fire Integrity Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management and delivery of a programme of physical fire integrity of the campus buildings, including fire compartmentation integrity, fire door inspection, sprinklers, maintenance, repair and replacement in university buildings and facilities. You will be responsible for the recording, liaison with teams and updating of all fire compartmentation with the central Health & Safety team, specifically fire officer duties. You will coordinate and update estates policies and procedures as they relate to fire door statutory compliance, updating building asset databases as required.

The successful candidate will be a qualified Fire Safety professional with a skill level equivalent to achievement of HND, Degree, NVQ Level 4 or basic qualification and relevant experience with a detailed understanding of legislation, guidelines and best practice relating to fire door management. You will also have proven experience of planning and progressing work activities within broad professional guidelines and/or broad organisational policy.

To arrange a confidential discussion please contact the University’s retained advisor Connor Humpage at MRG.

Closing date for applications is Sunday 27th April.

The University of Southampton is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a diverse environment. Therefore, we particularly encourage applications that will continue to strengthen the diversity of our governing body. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion and are immensely proud to have been awarded an institutional Athena SWAN silver award, which underpins our pledge to improve equality for women. We are also delighted to have received the Race Equality Charter bronze award from Advance HE, which recognises that we have a solid foundation for eliminating racial inequalities and developing an inclusive culture that values all staff and students. We work with our people to ensure their ideas are always heard, and we invite you to share your background and life experiences with us to help us create a truly unique working environment.