Fire Safety Manager
| Posting date: | 07 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £426.75 per day |
| Additional salary information: | per day PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 September 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS1 5TR |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Bristol 5273562 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Job Title: Fire Safety Manager
Ref: Bristol 5273562
Pay rate: £426.75 per day PAYE
Working Arrangement: Hybrid role – some home working and some days on site undertaking inspections or attending audits with the Fire Service
The role:
We're looking for an experienced and proactive Fire Safety Manager to lead the approach to fire safety across multi-occupied residential buildings, from low-rise and high-rise blocks, to Supported Housing for Older People.
You'll play a vital role in ensuring the safety of the buildings and the people who live in them, shaping and delivering fire safety strategies, policies and procedures, and ensuring full compliance with legal responsibilities.
Key responsibilities:
Leading internal fire safety projects and embedding strategy into day-to-day delivery
Driving risk management approach and cyclical fire safety compliance programmes
Acting as the Council’s strategic lead for fire safety
Managing the Fire Risk Assessment contractor and associated remedial works
Providing expert advice, guidance and leadership on fire safety issues across the organisation
Engaging with residents in high-rise and higher-risk buildings to address fire safety concerns
Leading on fire evacuation planning for vulnerable residents
Managing and responding to fire prohibition/enforcement notices
Procuring and overseeing third-party audits and inspections
What the client is looking for:
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
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
Ability to formulate and articulate strategies and plans
Experience of managing and developing services to improve outcomes for citizens and customers
Ability to effectively plan and deliver complex projects and programmes
Ability to lead and manage, inspiring and motivating people across a whole service
Ability to manage performance effectively and to hold all team members to account
Ability to plan and manage all finance and budgets to meet performance targets
Ability to actively contribute to innovation and to take analytical approaches to solving complex and challenging problems
Experience of using digital technology to deliver and improve services
Ability to cope well with and overcome ambiguity through use of effective change management approaches
Ability to work effectively and credibly with diverse and complex stakeholders
Highly-developed advocacy, negotiation and presentation skills
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Job Ref: Bristol 5273562
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