Fire Safety Surveyor - Farringdon, EC1N 8JS

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK’s leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, the East Midlands, Southern and the East of England.

This role will be influential in managing fire compliance activities across the Development directorate. The Fire Safety Surveyor will be responsible for supporting the Development team in fire safety matters, carrying out fire compliance checks on new build properties, and representing the Development team in Cross-Directorate meetings. The role will contract manage the external fire consultant and provide fire related support to the Development team for pre-contract and live construction projects.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Must hold valid nationally recognised fire safety qualification to a minimum of Level 4.
• Must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the fire safety industry, relevant to fire safety in housing.
• Must hold a professional membership of an accredited 3rd party organisation, such as the Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM), the Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE) or similar and as a minimum hold a higher level of grade/membership.
• You will have a high level of technical knowledge in fire safety surveying, regulation, and guidance.
• Additionally, you will have extensive and demonstrable experience of contract managing a fire consultant, carrying out compliance checks on new build projects which is backed up by strong technical knowledge.
• You must have experience of working on large scale residential fire remediation projects and specific technical knowledge surrounding the schemes.
• You will also have a strong understanding of current Building Regulations and other regulatory documents within the construction industry along with the ability to prepare and present reports containing technical material to a non-technical audience.

To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers we will complete a basic check with the Disclosure and Barring Service once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.

MTVH conducts an annual review of salaries for colleagues. The salary displayed does not reflect any agreements reached during our 2025 review.

Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What’s in it for you?

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year.
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities.
• An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra day off.
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave.
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%.
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year.
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary.
• Cycle2work scheme.
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department.
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members to.
• Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan.
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform.
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues.
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support.
• Employee Assistance Programme - We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation.

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and others’ wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued.

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.