bpha
Fire Safety Delivery Manager
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Fire Safety Delivery Manager
£52,500 plus £2000 car allowance
Bedford, Hybrid
Permanent, Full Time
At bpha, our residents' safety is our top priority. We're looking for an experienced Fire Safety Delivery Manager to lead the delivery of fire safety projects across our housing portfolio, ensuring compliance, driving improvements, and helping us create safer homes and communities.
This is an excellent opportunity for a fire safety professional who enjoys taking ownership, building strong stakeholder relationships, and delivering projects that make a real difference.
Why Join bpha?
At bpha, you'll be part of an organisation that genuinely cares about its residents, colleagues and communities. We foster a culture built on responsibility, collaboration, empathy and ambition, where your expertise will be valued and your contribution will have a direct impact on improving resident safety.
As Fire Safety Delivery Manager, You Will
- Lead and deliver fire safety projects across bpha's housing stock, ensuring works are completed safely, on time and within budget.
- Support the delivery of fire safety compliance and statutory obligations across the organisation.
- Oversee contractor performance, ensuring quality standards, KPIs and compliance requirements are consistently achieved.
- Manage fire safety contracts and programmes, identifying and resolving defects, delays and project risks.
- Audit and quality assure Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs), ensuring remedial actions are prioritised, monitored and completed within agreed timescales.
- Ensure compliance with fire safety legislation, building safety requirements and CDM regulations.
- Produce and present compliance reports, project updates, governance papers and regulatory submissions.
- Maintain accurate compliance data and support responses to audits, inspections and assurance reviews.
- Build effective relationships with residents, contractors, regulators and internal stakeholders to improve safety outcomes.
- Participate in out-of-hours escalation arrangements and support the wider Building Safety Team where required.
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Person Specification
- Extensive experience in fire safety compliance and Fire Risk Assessment auditing.
- Strong understanding of fire safety legislation, guidance and regulatory requirements.
- Experience managing fire safety projects, contracts and programmes.
- Knowledge of wider landlord compliance responsibilities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent organisational, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- High attention to detail and a commitment to achieving quality outcomes.
- Degree qualification, or equivalent, in Construction, Building Services or a related discipline.
- Fire Safety qualification at Level 4 or equivalent.
- Relevant professional fire safety qualification or accreditation or working towards one.
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If you're passionate about fire safety, compliance and delivering projects that protect residents, we'd love to hear from you.
Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We therefore encourage interested candidates to submit their application as soon as possible.
About Bpha
bpha is a leading Housing Association in the Oxford to Cambridge arc, providing high-quality, affordable homes and services. We own or manage over 19,500 properties and reinvest all income into improving homes, building new ones, and supporting communities. Our vision is to build places where people can live happily in homes they can afford, guided by value that shape everything we do.
Benefits
We believe that benefits should be more than just perks. For us, they aren’t simply little extras added on at the end, they’re fundamental parts of what we stand for, from the very beginning. As standard.
That’s why at bpha, we reward our employees by making sure we give them a supportive and caring environment, that empowers them to be happy, healthy and inspired, every day.
Our full benefits offering can be found here: https://www.bpha.org.uk/about-us/bpha-colleague-benefits/139/
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