Guinness
Fire Safety Manager
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Fire Safety Manager
We have a new opportunity for a Fire Safety Manager to join the Guinness team on a fixed term contract, initially for a 6-month period.
As a Fire Safety Manager, you will provide technical leadership and assurance across fire safety activities, ensuring Fire Risk Assessments, inspections, surveys and remedial works are delivered to a high standard and in line with legislative requirements. Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading the quality assurance of Fire Risk Assessments, inspections, and surveys to ensure they are risk-based, current, and technically robust.
- Overseeing fire safety management within Higher Risk Buildings, ensuring effective assurance, inspection, and compliance with the Building Safety Act.
- Providing authoritative technical challenge on fire safety risks, controls, and remedial proposals, escalating concerns where standards are not met.
What we are looking for
We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. In addition to bringing significant experience of managing fire safety in a social housing setting, you will have the confidence to lead, influence, and challenge on fire safety issues.
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You will be able to demonstrate:
- Significant experience managing fire safety in social housing or a similarly regulated, complex built-environment setting, including Higher-Risk Buildings.
- Strong working knowledge of fire and building safety legislation, with experience applying it proportionately in operational settings.
- Proven experience leading and assuring Fire Risk Assessments, inspections, and remedial compliance programmes to completion.
- The ability to provide robust technical challenge and clear assurance reporting, engaging confidently with senior leaders, contractors, and regulators.
Essential Qualifications:
- Recognised fire safety qualification (e.g. NEBOSH Fire Certificate, Level 4 Fire Risk Assessment, or equivalent).
- Professional membership of a relevant body (IFE, IFSM) or working towards membership.
To find out more about the key responsibilities of the role and to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the role profile.
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Please note, if the successful candidate is based in our London office, they will receive a Local Job Supplement in addition to the salary.
The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for nearly 160,000 residents nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our residents, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services. The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
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