Fire Safety Surveyor in Crawley

The role involves overseeing fire risk assessment activities across Southern Housing's portfolio. Key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring that all designated fire risk assessment works are actioned and correctly undertaken within the prescribed timescales.
• Maintaining all Southern Housing properties to the highest possible standards and ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Analysing and assessing building fire safety related defects and deficiencies, providing remedial proposals and preparing specifications for remedial works.
• Carrying out post inspection/quality control checks on works and pursuing any necessary redress to achieve satisfactory completion.
• Conducting health and safety spot checks and monitoring contractors to ensure compliance with relevant Health & Safety risk assessments and method statements.
• Providing a high standard of service to staff, residents, leaseholders, managing agencies, and property owners.

You will conduct inspections across East & West Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. The role includes occasional travel, with overnight stays on the Isle of Wight every 2-3 months and monthly visits to our Farringdon office for team meetings. You will be expected to work on-site at least three days per week, with the remaining time spent working from home or from an office location.

What you'll need:

• Experience as a fire/building surveyor in a maintenance environment carrying out pre and post inspections.
• Fire Qualification NEBOSH fire or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of the Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order 2005.
• Experience of working with contractors using SOR and non-SOR contracts.
• The ability to produce detailed specifications of work.
• Knowledge of relevant and current codes of practice, building regulations, health and safety legislation, standards, and materials.
• An in-depth knowledge of construction, design, and fire-related defects and how to correct them.
• Knowledge of contract management.
• A Full UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle.
• Membership of RICS, CIOB, IFE or similar professional organisation is desirable but not essential.

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above criteria providing real examples.

Advert Closing Date: 3rd May 2026 at 23:59 (We may close the advert early if we receive a suitable number of applications).

About us: At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people's lives. A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you:

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Eyecare & dental
• Birthday leave
• Retailers discounts
• Cycle to work
• Buy & sell annual leave
• Season ticket loan
• In-house academy & career development
• Flexible working
• Inclusion and Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics; it's about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience, and perspective of each individual.