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Fire Safety Manager (Housing)
| Posting date: | 14 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £395.52 per day |
| Additional salary information: | per day PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 April 2025 |
| Location: | BRISTOL, BS1 6AG |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Bristol 5264436 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim Fire Safety Manager (Housing)
Ref number: Bristol 5264436
Start ASAP
Hybrid role – some home working and some days on site undertaking inspections or attending audits with the Fire Service.
Please do not apply for this role unless your CV meets the following general requirements, as well as the more specific ones listed further down the ad:
You must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK.
For office based and hybrid roles, your commute to the place of work must be less than 1 hour.
This is a temporary role. Please do not apply if you are seeking a permanent position.
Skills & Experience required:
Fire safety related qualification, or equivalent. Minimum of a L4.
Professional membership to IFE and/or IFSM, or equivalent
In depth understanding of complex buildings, fire safety systems and remediation of fire safety issues
Significant experience of effective fire safety management at a senior level in a social housing setting, with an in depth knowledge of relevant regulation and British Standards
Experience of managing and developing services to improve outcomes for citizens and customers.
Experience of working in complex and diverse organisations.
Ability to effectively plan and deliver complex projects and programmes.
Ability to formulate and articulate strategies and plans
What's involved with this role: As a Fire Safety Manager, you will ensure the safety of occupants in multi-occupied residential buildings, including low-rise, high-rise, and supported housing for older people. You will be responsible for meeting statutory fire safety obligations, contributing to the development of fire safety strategies and policies, and supporting building safety procedures. Additionally, you will assist in updating fire safety strategies and working on fire safety aspects of building safety cases.
Key duties:
Initiate and lead the delivery of Fire Safety internal projects, ensuring Fire Safety in line with the Council policies, ensuring effective and appropriate translation of Fire Safety Strategy into practical application through the active promotion of Fire Safety.
Drive the Councils risk management approach ensuring the Council remains compliant with cyclical fire safety programmes of work.
Strategic lead for Fire Safety, working with the Authority Partners
Developed and thriving stakeholder and partner relationships that engage with, inform, support and deliver the plans.
Ensure the Council meets both statutory and non-statutory fire safety responsibilities, in line with legislation and associated building regulations.
Provide strategic, operational and technical direction/advice, to all stakeholders; subject matter expert for fire related matters.
Contract management accountability for the Fire Risk Assessment contractor and associated remedial actions.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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Job Ref: Bristol 5264436
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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