Fire Safety Team Leader in Glasgow, North East

We're looking for a Fire Safety Team Leader to support the delivery of a high-quality fire safety compliance service across our housing portfolio. In this role you will lead a team of technicians and engineers, ensuring statutory fire safety requirements are met, managing risk assessment programmes, and overseeing inspections, contractors, and improvement projects. This is a key role where you'll drive performance, maintain compliance, and contribute to creating safe homes and communities.

Requirements:

• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle with business insurance is essential.

Specifically, in the role you will:

• Team Management: Manage a team of four Fire Safety Technicians and four Fire Safety Electrical Engineers, ensuring effective management with outputs and performance targets met.
• Assist the Fire Safety Manager to ensure Hedyn complies with its statutory duties as a landlord regarding fire safety.
• Manage an annual budget of circa £600k and develop future budget requirements for the site-based fire safety team member activities.
• Deputise and cover the Fire Safety Manager during periods of absence.

Fire Risk Assessment & Actions:

• Control the Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs) programme, facilitate access to premises and ensure they are conducted within defined timescales.
• Validate fire safety actions and FRA significant findings, assign remedial actions to internal colleagues or external contractors, manage the process, and ensure actions are completed within set timescales.
• Manage escalations of Fire Safety actions when all options have been exhausted to escalate to the Fire Safety Manager.
• Ensure that where deviations are made to risk assessments 'significant findings' that a Fire Engineer is engaged for technical advice note and/or supporting rationale.

Inspections & Projects:

• Develop a Fire Door (FD) database that captures the FD risk-based inspection programme.
• Manage and strategically oversee the delivery of safety inspection programmes, producing clear and accurate reporting.
• Assist in the fire strategy (FS) development of the programme, ensuring FS are developed for each of Hedyn's premises.
• Research and develop specifications for fire safety projects, providing assurance to other teams that their specifications are suitable and compliant with relevant legislation.

Contractor Management:

• Develop consultant and/or contractor briefing documents and specifications to initiate Procurement activities.
• Manage projects, utilising project management skills to deliver one-off projects and cyclical fire safety maintenance activities.
• Establish and chair contractor meetings, recording minutes with detailed actions allocated.

General:

• Strategically contribute to the development of policies, processes, and operational procedures pertaining to fire safety compliance activities.
• Manage the compliance database to ensure it is updated, engaging with relevant stakeholders and providing executive level performance information and reports.
• Contribute to developing team relationships and work collaboratively both internally and externally.
• Work at all times in a safe and appropriate manner to meet the duties and responsibilities within the Health and Safety policies and procedures of the association.
• Additional, reasonable duties as required.

Application Process:

We require an application form to be completed for every role. We do not require recruitment agency support at this time - all speculative CVs will be treated as a direct application.

Your Hedyn, our comprehensive benefits package:

• Enhanced Pension Scheme: Attractive pension scheme with generous employer contributions of up to 12%.
• Enhanced Annual Leave: Start on 25 days annual leave (+ Bank Holidays), increasing to 30 days after 3 years' service.
• SMART Working: Manage your time to work in a way that meets the needs of our customers, colleagues, and communities.
• Health and Wellbeing: Many health and wellbeing policies and initiatives such as Cycle to Work and Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption.
• Flexible Benefits: A flexible benefits package allowing colleagues to spend £625 towards benefits that suit them.
• Development: Many professional and personal development options such as sponsored study opportunities and career progression.

If you are looking for your next career challenge, seeking responsibility, and are passionate about delivering the best possible service, we'd love to hear from you.