Group Leader, Risk Management in Newport

Find out more about this role by reading the information below, then apply to be considered.

Closing date: Sunday 12 July

Shortlisting: Monday 13 July

Proposed Interview date: Wednesday 22 July

Salary: £46,716.47

About the vacancy: 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, you'll ensure statutory fire safety requirements are met, manage risk assessment programmes, and oversee 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. Ensure this team is effectively and efficiently managed 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, ensure the actions are completed within set timescales, ensuring all FRA relevant documentation is correctly processed and recorded in accordance with legislative and Hedyn policy. Manage escalations of Fire Safety actions. 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. Produce clear and accurate reporting. Assist in the fire strategy (FS) development of the programme. Research and develop specifications for fire safety projects, providing assurance to other teams.
• 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, which will be recorded, 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, engage with relevant stakeholders and provide executive level performance information and reports. Contribute to developing team relationships and work collaboratively both internally and externally.

To 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: We believe Hedyn is a great place to work and it's important to us that our people feel the same way. As well as offering varied and fulfilling careers, we want every colleague to feel appreciated. That means having the best possible benefits package, the flexibility to maintain a great work-life balance and the opportunity to achieve your full potential.

Benefits include:

• 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) which would increase gradually to 30 days following 3 years' service.
• SMART Working: Trusted to 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 that allows colleagues to spend £625 towards the 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.