Senior Fire Safety Assurance Manager

Equans is looking for a Senior Fire Safety Assurance Manager to join our team covering the Southeast of England. This is a permanent, full-time role, working 40 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance, bonus and benefits package.

This is a regional role, the post holder will cover the Southeast of England.

We are looking for a highly competent Fire Safety specialist. You'll be joining a dynamic and growing central engineering function, with the ability to work autonomously, and within an established group of Subject Matter Experts. Our team sets the standards, and strives to deliver more centrally, to support our operational colleagues. If you're keen for progression and want to work within a competent, high-performance team, with a culture of continuous improvement, then please apply!

Acting as the Senior Fire Safety Assurance Manager for the South East and London, you'll be supporting around £150 million of contracts (turn over) per year. The purpose of this role is to develop guidance and policy documents, de‑mystifying the fire disciplines, and work with our operational technical staff to implement these documents, ensuring compliance with the relevant standards. You'll also provide advice to strategic leaders and Subject Matter Expert support to the Divisions Operational teams regarding all aspects of Fire Safety Compliance.

The Sustainable Facilities Management Division incorporates a broad spectrum of customer contracts including Manufacturing, Transport, Central Government, Industrial, Retail, Leisure, Healthcare, Education and Corporate. The role will support all sectors including the specific requirements of PFI. The successful candidate will lead on the development of governance processes associated with our fire safety management systems across our South Eastern portfolio.

The post holder must have significant Fire Safety experience and be proficient at drafting detailed Fire Safety technical reports and be able to support and actively lead accident or operational incident investigations, that may have caused injury to personnel or an interruption to our customer's operations, through Fires.

In addition, the post holder will provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) support across the business including into bids, projects, new opportunities and day to day operational support, including advice and guidance on best practice standards, system and operational asset performance improvements.

• Setting the strategic direction in the management of fire safety projects and fire safety compliance standards
• Building relationships with contract client Fire representatives
• Promoting good fire safety practices to contract Fire Safety Representatives, and acting as a conduit between operations and senior operational leaders, ensuring the effective management, governance, communication and oversight
• Acting as a key member of the Fire Safety Assurance Governance Committee
• Interpreting and distributing fire safety requirements, guidance, and information, including changes, to keep our operational teams and leaders up to date with current legislation, and how this is to be adhered to by EQUANS
• Specifically, providing the interpretation and application of the provisions of legislation in The Fire Safety Order 2005 (RRO), The Building Safety Act (BSA)
• Overseeing and analysing complaints relating to issues of fire safety, looking for key trends across the Division, and formulating solutions to prevent re‑occurrence
• Liaising with emergency services on behalf of EQUANS, and/or clients, ensuring that scheduled and adhoc visits (particularly following Fires) are managed proactively and competently
• Support in the procurement, setting to work and monitoring of Fire related PPM and Remedial projects, ensuring inspections and repairs are carried out to the correct standard
• Where required, undertaking fire safety inspections and audits on High‑Risk sites, and prepare reports for EQUANS operational offices where the size and complexity would allow
• Act as EQUANS Fire expert when evaluating fire safety design submissions
• Support, and provide technical advice to allow the…