Fire & Building Safety Officer

At Great Places Housing Group, our mission is simple: to create great homes, support people, and build thriving communities. As a Fire & Building Safety Officer, you\’ll play a vital role in keeping residents safe, ensuring our buildings meet the highest safety standards, and making a real difference every day. This hybrid role offers variety – you\’ll visit sites across our property portfolio, from Manchester up to Blackburn and across to Sheffield, work from home, and join your team in Didsbury one day a week.

You’ll also benefit from funded training and development — for example, our colleagues are currently undertaking qualifications such as CIOB Level 6 Diploma in Building Safety Management and other relevant courses to support their career growth. We also offer an exciting Car Benefit Scheme, allowing you to choose a brand-new electric or plug‑in hybrid car through salary sacrifice. This covers insurance, routine servicing and maintenance, tyres, road tax (if applicable), and RAC breakdown cover — all for a fixed monthly amount.

Every day you’ll be doing meaningful work that contributes to safer homes and stronger communities, all within an inclusive, supportive team that values integrity, diversity, and respect. It’s an ideal role for someone with strong fire or building safety experience — particularly suited to those from a Fire Service background who want to apply their technical expertise and public safety mindset in a rewarding housing environment.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage allocated fire risk assessment actions within our portals and systems, ensuring timely completion and uploading of compliance evidence.
• Support the delivery and management of all fire‑related contracts and contractors.
• Liaise effectively with colleagues to coordinate access for contractors to complete works in communal and private areas for individual projects, planned improvements, and service programmes.
• Deliver a visible and skilled inspection regime across all aspects of building safety, ensuring services comply with current regulations, British Standards, and best practice.
• Carry out routine inspections of communal areas, blocks, and individual flats to ensure safe management and support resident safety.
• Monitor the building and fire safety inbox, providing competent advice to colleagues on general safety queries.
• Conduct post‑inspections of completed building safety works.
• Maintain effective and accessible records, ensuring all building safety documentation is correctly stored.
• Ensure KPI data is captured and reported to line managers and other stakeholders in a timely way.
• Support effective contract management for building safety, including compliance assurance through reporting, toolbox talks, site visits, and supporting procurement and contract delivery.
• Draft and implement contract specifications and escalation processes for addressing any contract breaches.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Fire Certificate (or equivalent).
• Level 4 Award in Asset and Building Management Compliance (or willingness to work towards it).
• Technical knowledge of fire safety systems and equipment (e.g., fire detection, FFE, sprinklers).
• Strong understanding of building and fire safety legislation.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to complete tasks accurately and on time, with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills — both written and verbal.
• Confidence liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage your own workload.

What we need from you

• A commitment to understand the building safety challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing.
• A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities.
• Respecting professional boundaries and conducting yourself in a professional manner at all times.
• A commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places.
• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity.
• An ability to work in uncertainty.
• To be professional and work with integrity, inclusivity, and respect for diversity.

Ways of Working & Benefits

• Hybrid and flexible working.
• WPA — Healthcare scheme starts at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available per year (option to increase & add family members).
• Annual leave — Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days within 5 years + Bank Holidays.
• Reward & Recognition — You Count Rewards are individual rewards for going \’above & beyond\’.
• Professional fees — The business pays the cost of one professional role related membership fee for each colleague.
• The Market Place — high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more.
• Wage Stream — You can access savings opportunities and early access to wages.
• Health and Wellbeing Initiatives — Our colleagues enjoy wellbeing campaigns throughout the year, with activities designed around our four pillars of wellbeing, including career wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and financial wellbeing.