Fire Safety Manager
| Posting date: | 17 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,055 to £44,415 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 401678/4 |
Summary
We are transforming the way the Civil Service works by creating great places to work, leading the largest commercial office programme in the UK, working towards halving carbon emissions from government offices, and achieving greater value for taxpayers. And we are looking for innovative, solutions-focused people to join our team.
Representing the best covenant in the UK – His Majesty’s Government – we are leading transformational programmes such as the Government Hubs Programme, Whitehall Campus Programme and Net Zero Programme, as well as delivering modern, cost-effective real estate service solutions.
Innovation and progress are at the heart of our behaviours. We foster a culture of lifelong learning, where curiosity and self-improvement are encouraged. And we’re dedicated to becoming a leading, inclusive employer both in the external market and throughout the Civil Service. Our strong emphasis on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is not just about driving inclusion across our organisation, it is also about ensuring our services meet the needs of government departments and the civil servants who use our spaces.
Join our dynamic and diverse team that leads with purpose, improving sustainability, nurturing social value, driving inclusivity and flexibility, and kickstarting economic growth. We are driven by purpose, and you can be part of it too: where you make a meaningful impact; where you influence; where your voice really matters; where you help to shape our future direction.
The GPA is committed to representing the communities we serve by making Diversity, Equality and Inclusion part of everything we do.
To ensure that we are always recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of talent, we are particularly inviting applications from candidates who are disabled, ethnically or gender diverse, and people who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
The key purpose of the Assurance Team’s Fire Manager role is to ensure effective management arrangements for GPA clients in respect of Fire Safety Management. The post holder will be part of an initially small team of discipline-specific managers and will report to the Assurance Team, Head of Fire Safety.
The Fire Safety Manager will:
- Ensure that the GPA successfully discharges its statutory obligations, enabling safe working environments for GPA clients and occupiers.
- Assist in the development of robust, safe systems of work across all GPA activities, acting as a specialist for Fire Safety.
- Ensure the successful delivery of fire safety services.
Key responsibilities:
- Deliver and maintain the fire safety policy to ensure that latest developments in legislation and performance based solutions, as supported by issued codes of practice, are implemented.
- Ensure complete consultation with key GPA on-boarded stakeholders
- Work with the Head of Fire Safety to monitor and assess proposed legislation and codes of practice for relevance to GPA policy and governance of fire safety.
- In collaboration with GPA on-boarded stakeholders, undertake joint engagement with Crown Premises Fire Safety Inspectorate (CPFSI) inspections of governance of fire safety across the GPA Estate.
- Ensure integration of fire safety standards and participate in cross government forums for the benefit of all. Report on the delivery of the fire safety strategy, taking any necessary corrective measures to ensure delivery to meet overall requirements.
- Engage with the Project Delivery Team (PDT) to ensure that business – specific operational fire safety requirements are properly identified, defined and adopted in compliance with all necessary standards, in projects and maintenance activities delivered by PDT and contractors.
- The provision of advice and guidance on fire safety policy, technical standards and operational issues to all GPA on-boarded clients.
- Provide proactive technical advice, working with business areas to understand and identify their need for any support/advice
- Provide reactive technical advice through the provision of general and specific advice on request, including; review of policy & projects programmed by the Project Delivery Team from a fire safety perspective. Development of additional guidance to meet customer needs and deliver training as required.
- Deliver a risk-based fire safety management assurance programme.
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks in consultation with the Fire Safety Officer.
External Influence:
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with key supplier contacts, managing the relationship at a tactical and operational level.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with clients across all relevant clusters.
- Represent GPA at any relevant external pan-Government groups.
- Ensure structured regular liaison takes place with all on-boarded stakeholders and Crown Premises Fire Safety Inspectorate (CPFSI) and attend corporate forums, committees and meetings in relation to fire safety.
- Work with others to identify areas for improvement and simplify processes to use fewer resources. Use technology where possible to increase efficiency.
Risk Management:
- Ensure that discipline-specific risk registers are maintained.
- Support the facilities and project managers to resolve key risks, taking ownership for risk mitigation where appropriate.
- Ensure that the need for expert advice is identified appropriately.
Leadership:
- Deliver best in class Fire Safety Assurance services to GPA clients.
- Involve and consult with the team members to ensure that best practice and procedures are in place.
- Contribute to full team activities such as development days, team meetings etc.
- Lead relevant team training sessions.
- Deputise for the Head of Fire Safety when required.
Key Contacts:
- Operations Directorate contacts
- Programme Directorate, particularly Hubs colleagues
- Account Managers
- Senior client contacts
- Senior contractor contacts
- Crown Premises Fire Safety Inspectorate, Local Fire Services and any other enforcing bodies
Authority
- Decision making - Yes
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