RC Fornax
Health And Safety Manager
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Job Title: Life Safety Systems Manager
Location: Remote (Manchester)
Contract Length: 6 Months
Rate: £475 – £500 per day (Inside IR35)
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Life Safety Systems Manager to provide technical leadership and governance across a complex, highly regulated environment. Acting as the Subject Matter Expert (SME), you will take ownership of life safety systems, ensuring compliance, reliability, and operational readiness across critical infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the SME for life safety systems across the site and wider estate
- Lead governance, assurance, and compliance activities in line with regulatory and organisational standards
- Manage life safety systems including fire detection, fire suppression, emergency lighting, smoke control, and confined space safety systems
- Ensure systems are maintained, validated, and fit for operational use
- Develop and maintain technical standards, policies, and procedures
- Conduct technical audits, compliance reviews, and risk assessments
- Lead and support incident investigations, producing technical reports and recommendations
- Support capital projects through design reviews, FAT/SAT activities, and project assurance
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Requirements
- Extensive experience managing life safety systems within a high-risk or highly regulated environment
- Strong knowledge of fire detection, fire suppression, emergency lighting, smoke control, and confined space safety systems
- Experience overseeing the full lifecycle of safety-critical systems, including maintenance, installation, commissioning, and upgrades
- Proven background in technical assurance, compliance auditing, and contractor management
- Experience developing and reviewing risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work
- Ability to lead engineering investigations and technical root cause analysis
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
This role has a requirement for SC Clearance.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills