Fire Safety Manager in Stockport

Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week). This role will be internally known as Compliance Manager (Fire Safety & Lifts). Up to £51,356 per annum.

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’d love to hear from you!

As our Fire Safety Manager, 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.

Key responsibilities include:

• 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.

What we’re looking for in our ideal candidate:

• 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.

Our modern office is a bright, positive working environment with great collaborative working spaces. We also 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.

The SHG “Be You” approach sums up our belief that everyone has the right to be who they are, and to be that person at work, in line with SHG’s Values. We’re always looking to improve diversity within our teams to enhance this culture and to be truly representative of the communities we work in.

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.

We understand that if you don’t meet every requirement, you may be hesitant to apply but we still want to hear from you and encourage you to 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.