About The Role
Role: Fire Safety Manager REF 01232
Location: Ipswich
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Salary: £53,051 – £55,224 per annum
Working Arrangemen ts: F le xible working and hybrid working opportunities
Security Clearance: N/A
About the Role
Spinwell is recruiting for a Fire Safety Manager an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
Responsible for managing the fire safety to all Council properties and customers, the Postholder will ensure all aspects of the Fire Safety Act and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (Fire Safety Order) are met within legal, financial, time and policy constraints.
Key Responsibilities
As the Council’s expert in Fire Safety for the Council’s housing stock, to act as the principal Duty Holder and fulfil those duties as defined in the legislation as delegated by the Responsible Person.
To manage a team of Fire Safety Surveyors, including training, allocation, programming, monitoring and progressing work of the team, supervision and appraisal of the team.
To develop individual fire strategies appropriate to the purpose of a building's use.
To undertake Fire Risk Assessments in a timely manner, ensuring all actions identified therein are appropriately allocated and completed to a high standard and recorded as such to maintain a safe environment for all residents and visitors.
To work with all M&C teams, other Service Areas within the Council and external stakeholders so that a “Golden Thread” of information is held, maintained and available relating to fire safety, and to ensure compliance with the Building Safety Act.
To deliver fire safety improvements across the Council’s housing estate, with a current budget of around £10m, and to manage the allocated budgets for all fees and works and supplier contracts, in line with financial regulations.
Act as client officer to manage and monitor the programme and performance of the Council’s appointed multi-disciplinary fire safety consultancy contract, overseeing (with the consultant and the Council’s procurement team) the RIBA design stages of the project, leading to the procurement of major works contracts on public frameworks.
To be the Council’s main point of contact with Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service, and to provide all documentation and evidence to support fire audits, to receive Notices of Deficiencies where issued, and follow up on all actions to remove the threat of enforcement action.
To implement a Corporate Fire Safety Policy, individual site-specific fire strategies for each of the Council’s 15 sheltered schemes and 4 Homeless Families Units, and an overarching fire strategy for low-rise general needs flat blocks.
To implement a tenant engagement and consultation strategy and effective communications, including liaising with stakeholders (including SFRS), and regularly reporting performance to CMT and Senior Councillors (including presentations).
During and beyond the fire improvement programme, maintain fire safety in line with legislation, ensuring all improvements are sustainable long term for the Council. This includes maintaining a “Permit to Work” scheme for all works to communal areas and lines of fire compartmentation.
To obtain competitive tenders/quotations and ensure orders are placed in accordance with the Council’s standing orders, financial regulations and constitution.
To ensure fire-related compliance tasks (not exhaustive) indicated below are satisfactorily undertaken at regular intervals, and to provide clear, appropriate information and instruction (and training where necessary) to assist others, ensuring competency when undertaking tasks, testing and inspections:
Quarterly and monthly fire door inspections.
Fire alarm testing.
Emergency lighting checks.
Fire risk assessments.
Fire escape checks.
Maintenance and checking of firefighting equipment.
Sprinkler systems.
Assessment of vulnerable tenants by way of PEEPS.
Resident engagement.
Educate and refine processes across the housing…