SHEQ Manager - Fire Protection

We are a growing, bespoke consultancy providing specialist fire safety, health and safety, and project management services to clients, with a strong focus on high-rise residential buildings. We specialize in ensuring the safety and compliance of purpose-built blocks of flats, especially high-rise buildings, providing a high standard of support and expertise to our clients.

We are seeking an experienced Fire Safety Manager with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience in fire risk assessment including high-rise residential blocks. This is a senior leadership role with formal responsibility for managing and developing the survey team. Alongside undertaking complex or higher-risk assessments, the role is accountable for technical quality assurance, team capability, workload coordination, and client-facing delivery.

You will join a busy, sociable, and supportive office environment, with clear opportunities for professional development and progression.

• Manage a team of surveyors undertaking onsite health, safety, and fire safety inspections, primarily at high-rise residential buildings, including fire risk assessments, passive fire compartmentation, fire door inspections, health and safety assessments, BSR compliance audits, and asbestos surveys in line with the statutory regulations.
• Ensure surveyors produce clear, accurate, and comprehensive fire safety reports, policies, and evacuation procedures, tailored to the building and client needs.
• Where necessary, travel to sites across London and occasionally to other regions of England to train and validate surveyors and assist as may be necessary.
• Review, quality-check, and formally validate and sign off risk assessments and technical outputs produced by the team, within agreed authority levels.
• Provide day-to-day technical guidance, mentoring, and coaching to consultants and company employees.
• Coordinate workloads, capacity, and priorities across the survey team, ensuring work is allocated in line with competence and risk profile.

Minimum Level 4 qualification in Fire Risk Assessments of high-rise residential blocks of flats requirements. At least 5 years proven experience undertaking fire risk assessments, particularly within high-rise residential blocks of flats. Strong working knowledge of relevant fire and building safety legislation, including:

• Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
• Building Safety Act 2022
• Fire Safety Act 2021
• Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
• Health and Safety etc Act 1974 and associated regulations and guidance

Experience interpreting complex specialist reports (e.g. fire engineering, intrusive surveys, façade assessments) and advising on outcomes and required remediation. Proven experience leading or coordinating a surveying team. UK driving licence (preferred).

Competitive salary and benefits package:

• Ongoing professional training and development support.
• Company phone and site equipment.
• Birthday day off (after probation).
• 20 days annual leave + bank holidays, increasing to 25 days with service.
• Professional membership fees paid.