Fire Safety Manager in South Cave

About Us

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.

Role Overview

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 balance people leadership with hands-on technical involvement, acting as a senior point of expertise within the business. We are looking for someone who can hit the ground running after induction and who wants to make a genuine impact within a growing consultancy. You will join a busy, sociable, and supportive office environment, with clear opportunities for professional development and progression.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Act as a senior technical and operational point of contact for both colleagues and clients.
• 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• 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
• CDM Regulations
• 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.

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to be assertive where required.
• Ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, including residents and managing agents.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and comfortable working both independently and as part of a team.
• Confident decision-maker with a proactive, solution-focused approach.
• Able to work under pressure and manage competing deadlines.

Additional Requirements

• Flexibility in working hours to meet site and client demands.
• UK driving licence (preferred).

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Ongoing professional training and development support.
• Company phone and site equipment.
• Collaborative and dynamic working environment.
• BUPA healthcare including family (after 1 year of service).
• BUPA dentistry including family (after 1 year of service).
• Birthday day off (after probation).
• 20 days annual leave + bank holidays, increasing to 25 days with service.
• Professional membership fees paid.