Technical Director in London

Technical Director - Fire & Assets

Bellrock is the trusted challenger in UK property services.

Driven by insights, powered by technology, and delivered by talented people, we are redefining how real estate is managed.

Since 2003, our people‑first and technology‑led approach has helped organisations across the UK transform their estates into high‑performance, sustainable environments.

Through our integrated service model—spanning Technologies, Consulting, Critical Engineering & Jordon, and Intelligent Asset Care—we deliver compliance, quality, and operational excellence while reducing cost and carbon impact.

Our award‑winning Concerto IWMS platform, together with mobile solutions from Mobiess and energy analytics from In Metriks, enables smart, data‑led estate management at scale.

As Technical Director – Fire & Asset Compliance, you will hold strategic technical governance responsibility across Bellrock’s Fire Engineering, Fire Risk, Building Surveying, Six‑Facet Surveys, Asbestos Management and Water Hygiene services.

You will be accountable for the integrity, consistency and regulatory defensibility of all technical outputs across these disciplines.

This role ensures that methodologies, templates, accreditations, and competence frameworks remain aligned with current legislation, industry standards and third‑party certification requirements.

Operating at senior level, you will provide independent technical oversight separate from operational delivery, safeguarding professional standards, protecting professional indemnity exposure, and ensuring audit readiness across the business.

What you will do

• Providing strategic technical governance across Fire and Asset Compliance disciplines, ensuring services remain legally compliant, technically robust and industry‑aligned.
• Owning and maintaining all technical templates, reporting standards, survey methodologies and governance frameworks across the division.
• Overseeing third‑party accreditations including (but not limited to) UKAS schemes, BAFE, FIRAS, ISO standards and other relevant certification frameworks.
• Leading external audits and accreditation renewals, ensuring continuous compliance and readiness.
• Establishing and maintaining competence frameworks aligned to regulatory expectations, including the Building Safety Act, BS 8674 and discipline‑specific standards.
• Monitoring legislative change, regulatory reform and emerging industry guidance, ensuring timely implementation across service lines.
• Providing authoritative interpretation of new legislation and statutory guidance across fire safety, building compliance, asbestos management and water hygiene.
• Overseeing CPD strategy across the division, ensuring structured technical development and compliance with professional body requirements.
• Acting as final escalation point for complex technical disputes, contentious regulatory matters or audit challenges.
• Supporting risk management and professional indemnity governance through review of high‑risk outputs and systemic improvements.
• Collaborating with operational leaders to ensure technical standards are embedded within delivery teams.
• Contributing to strategic service development, ensuring new services are technically validated before market release.
• Supporting bid submissions and client tenders where technical credibility and governance assurance are critical.

What does it take?

• Extensive senior‑level experience across fire safety, engineering, building surveying or asset compliance disciplines.

• Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks including

• Building Safety Act 2022
• Fire Safety Act 2021
• Approved Document B
• Control of Asbestos Regulations
• ACOP L8 and HSG 274
• Relevant British Standards across compliance disciplines
• Experience overseeing UKAS or equivalent accredited schemes.
• Strong understanding of professional indemnity risk management and governance frameworks.
• Chartered status in a relevant discipline (e. g. CEng, MRICS, MCIOB, MIFire E or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Demonstrable experience developing technical policy, frameworks or national standards.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Core qualities and attributes
• Strategic thinker with strong governance mindset.
• Highly credible technical authority across multiple compliance disciplines.
• Confident interpreter of legislation and regulatory nuance.
• Detail‑oriented while able to operate at senior level.
• Calm and authoritative in high‑risk or contentious situations.
• Strong communicator capable of influencing senior stakeholders and regulators.
• Committed to raising technical standards and embedding a culture of compliance excellence.
• Demonstrates Bellrock’s values through integrity, accountability and professional leadership.
• AI fluency & learning mindset

We are looking for people who actively use AI in their day‑to‑day work, demonstrate strong curiosity about new technologies, and take ownership for continuously improving how they think, work, and deliver.

Working arrangements

We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow.

In this role, the successful candidate would be required to work from the London, Paddington office and working two days a week with the team and the rest of the week can be worked from home.

What can we offer you?

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you.
• Salary exchange pension scheme.
• Life cover.
• Paid sick leave.
• Health Assured employee assistance and wellness program.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Salary sacrifice schemes: Cycle to work.
• Private medical insurance.
• Holiday purchase scheme of additional 5 days per year.
• Offers and discount scheme designed to save money on everyday shopping and essentials.
• Healthcare Cashplan.
• Motor Save Scheme.
• Refer a friend.
• Liftshare.
• Virtual GP.
• Diversity and inclusion

We’ve always encouraged new and different perspectives – and that also means making ours a workplace that encourages diverse and unique voices.

Where everyone feels welcome, included, and supported to be themselves and achieve more.

Join us to build a rewarding career with Bellrock.

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