Who We Are

VIVO provides facilities management and accommodation maintenance for the UK military and its partners. VIVO embodies both experience and innovation.

What We Do

We put our Customers and Families First. They are the driving force behind everything we do. We drive forward improvements for them to ensure the service they receive, whether reactive repairs or a major project, is completed safely and on time. In order to achieve this, we have 4 core values: open, caring, agile, and collaborative. These are at the heart of everything we do.

Location: Home based, to cover sites across England from Essex to Newcastle
Position: Permanent, Full time
Salary: Up to £70,000

At VIVO, we proudly deliver facilities management and infrastructure services across the Defence estate, helping to maintain the places where our Armed Forces live, work, and train. We're looking for an experienced Gas Safety Manager to provide technical leadership and governance across our gas infrastructure, ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance, and operational excellence are maintained.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: This is a pivotal leadership role where you'll be responsible for implementing, managing, and continuously improving the Gas Safety Case, ensuring safe systems of work are consistently applied across the estate.
• Technical Authority: Acting as the organisation's technical authority for gas safety, you'll work closely with Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) representatives, operational teams, and senior stakeholders to ensure compliance with legislation, industry standards, and Defence requirements.
• Expert Advice: You'll provide expert advice to the business on all aspects of gas safety, auditing compliance across multiple sites, and identifying opportunities to strengthen safe systems of work.
• Oversight: Working alongside Responsible Persons (RPs), you'll oversee their appointment, competency assessments, ongoing development, and six-monthly reviews, ensuring they remain fully supported and compliant throughout their appointment.
• Standards and Compliance: You'll play a key role in reviewing technical standards, responding to changes in legislation, and ensuring all relevant safety notices, technical bulletins, and updates to the Gas Safety Case are communicated effectively across the business.
• Project Support: You'll contribute technical expertise to infrastructure projects, ensuring existing gas installations are safely integrated with new works while supporting project teams throughout delivery.
• Incident Management: As part of the role, you'll investigate gas-related incidents, manage critical P1 events, monitor corrective actions, and ensure all defects, operational restrictions, and RIDDOR reportable events are appropriately managed and communicated.
• Reporting: You'll maintain registers of Responsible Persons and Skilled Persons, oversee work-in-progress audits, and provide regular assurance reporting to senior management and our Defence customers.