Compliance Manager (Fire Safety and Lifts) in Stockport

Are you passionate about keeping residents safe in their homes? Do you have a strong understanding of fire and lift safety and a proactive approach to managing risk? If so, we would love you to join us at Stockport Homes Group. As our Compliance Manager (Fire Safety and Lifts), you will play a key role in ensuring our homes and buildings remain safe, compliant, and well managed. You will provide leadership, technical expertise, and assurance across fire safety and lift safety, helping to protect residents and meet our statutory obligations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the management of the organisation's fire safety and lift safety compliance activities, ensuring statutory inspections, servicing, testing, and remedial works are completed promptly, efficiently, and to the required standards.
• Oversee the Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) programme, ensuring assessments are current, suitable and sufficient, and that all FRA actions are risk-assessed, prioritised, tracked, and completed within agreed timescales.
• Act as the subject matter expert for fire safety legislation and technical standards, including the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, relevant British Standards, ensuring systems, processes, and practices reflect current legal obligations.
• Lead the procurement, contract management, and performance monitoring of contractors and consultants delivering fire safety and lift services, ensuring contracts and service level agreements clearly reflect legislative, safety, quality, and performance requirements.
• Provide clear compliance reporting and assurance to senior managers and stakeholders, highlighting risks, performance, and improvement actions.

Requirements

• Strong contract management skills with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal teams, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Proven experience managing fire safety compliance in housing, property, or a similarly regulated environment.
• A strong understanding of fire safety legislation, Fire Risk Assessments, and remedial action management.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a risk-based environment.
• Strong communication, ICT, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain technical matters clearly to a range of audiences.
• People management experience, with the ability to support, motivate, and develop staff to deliver high-quality compliance services.

What we offer and working environment

Our modern office is a bright, positive working environment with great collaborative working spaces. We value hybrid working arrangements, and you will have the opportunity to shape and agree how you work between office and home to suit both your own and the business needs. We are committed to diversity and the SHG values. The SHG Be You approach underpins our belief that everyone has the right to be who they are, and to be that person at work. We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds to reflect the communities we serve.

Contract and compliance

This role will be on Stockport Homes Limited terms and conditions. The successful applicant's appointment will be subject to satisfactory basic clearance by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application notes

We understand that you may not meet every requirement, but we still want to hear from you. Please submit an application detailing your experiences, achievements, and the value you can bring to our team. If you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact the People & OD Team on humanresources@stockporthomes.org. Please note that we do not accept applications through third-party websites. To ensure your application is reviewed, please apply directly through our careers page. We encourage you to apply early! We may close the vacancy sooner if we find the right candidate.

Dates

• Closing date: 22nd February 2026
• Interview date: 26th February 2026

About Us

Welcome to Stockport Homes Group (SHG), an umbrella organisation for four, socially responsible interdependent companies within the housing sector. Our vision is to combine entrepreneurship and commercialisation with social impact. We are Stockport's largest landlord, managing over 12,000 properties on behalf of Stockport Council and Private Landlords, as well as our own growing portfolio of new build homes. We work as builders, landlords, architects and developers with a commitment to affordable housing and wrap-around services to improve people's lives. All our profit is reinvested within the group to maximise opportunities for those who most need our help.

Companies within SHG

• Stockport Homes – Formed in 2005 to manage housing stock across Stockport on behalf of Stockport Council. An ALMO operating independently on day-to-day matters while owned by the Council.
• Three Sixty – Delivers construction, maintenance and facilities management services with a community-led approach.
• Skylight – A Charitable Community Benefit Society dedicated to transforming lives, supporting employment, poverty alleviation, and digital skills.
• Viaduct Housing Partnership – A development partnership focusing on building more affordable homes.

Our Benefits

• Personal Development
• Work/Life Balance
• Embrace Diversity