Fire Compliance Officer in Gloucester

We are currently looking to recruit a Fire Compliance Officer to take technical ownership of the lifecycle, inspection, and maintenance of all structural containment systems across the healthcare estate. This role ensures that all patient wards, operating theatres, diagnostic suites, and escape corridors remain fully compliant. The objective is to maintain strict compartmentation to support progressive horizontal evacuation in live, 24/7 clinical environments. The position requires an individual with a proactive, diligent, and conscientious approach to the work environment.

As part of the role you will:

• Manage comprehensive fire door inspections across all hospitals, clinics, and mental health facilities, checking for frame gaps, ironmongery wear, intumescent seals, and mandatory vision panels.
• Audit physical passive fire barriers, including service risers, ceiling voids, plant rooms, and sub-floor structural fire-stopping.
• Oversee the safety compliance of specialized healthcare door sets, including hygienic cleanroom doors, high-traffic cross-corridor sets, and high-security ward doors.
• Carry out basic remedial actions on fire doors such as changing door closers, hinges, locks etc.
• Maintain the estate's digital Golden Thread of information, cataloguing automated asset tracking logs for every single fire door and barrier penetration.
• Compile routine fire safety performance metrics and risk exception logs for the Trust's Head of Estates, Fire Safety Manager, and the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
• Review contractor Certificates of Conformity to ensure materials comply with the phased shift to European testing standards (BS EN 1634-1 and BS EN 13501).

As an Apleona Fire Compliance Officer, we are looking for:

• Minimum 2-3 years of estates experience managing passive fire assets within a live hospital or acute care environment.
• Advanced technical understanding of HTM 05-02 (Firecode: Design), HTM 05-01 (Managing Healthcare Fire Safety), and BS 8214 (code of practice for timber fire door assemblies).
• Deep grounding in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, Building Safety Act, and their specific applications to healthcare dependencies.
• Clinical Disruption Mitigation: Ability to safely coordinate physical estates works in active, high-sterile, or highly sensitive medical environments.
• Technical Asset Auditing: Exceptional eye for detail to spot subtle defects in acoustic seals, and fire-stopping mastics.
• Digital Database Management: High level of comfort using specialized mobile CAFM (Computer-Aided Facilities Management) platforms to log, map, and track defects.
• Valid Driving Licence.
• First aid qualification.
• A basic DBS check will be required for this role.

What's in it for you:

• Salary - £35,000 - £45,000
• 25 Holiday Days, plus Bank Holidays
• Life Insurance & Sick Pay Scheme
• Employee discounts via Reward Gateway
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to a virtual GP and a health & wellbeing app
• Training & Development

If this sounds like a job for you then click on the apply button and we'll start the process and if you're a good match we'll be in touch to discuss the next steps. Apleona is an equal opportunities employer who deliver facilities management services to clients all over the UK and with vacancies in your area this is a great time to join our teams. No agencies please.