Fire Door Qualification Supervisor

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Luton are excited to recruit a Fire Door Qualification Supervisor on behalf of Luton Borough Council.

Main purpose of position:

The Fire Door Qualification Supervisor ensures the quality of fire door installations across all Building and Technical Services departments, adhering to Fire Safety budgets, standards, and timelines.

The post holder is responsible for conducting fire safety inspections on council-owned communal and front entrance fire doors in flats, ensuring their accessibility and functionality for residents. They will manage a detailed inspection programme to ensure all doors are fit for purpose. They will identify defects during assessments, report them to the client, and ensure timely rectification. A full record of inspections must be maintained for future reference.

The post holder will also conduct Fire Risk Assessment surveys for council buildings, addressing fire safety concerns such as compartmentation and signage. Additionally, they must stay updated on legislative and regulatory changes in the fire safety industry, informing stakeholders of necessary actions to maintain compliance and high technical standards.

The post holder will actively contribute to achieving the wider Housing Landlord aims, operational objectives, and future state.

You will be responsible to:

• Undertaking in complete building inspections, intrusive and visual inspections of fire doors and compartmentation to ensure that all of the compliance standards are met; complete reports to offer advice and recommendations to clients. In addition to this, ensuring that all Fire Risk Assessments defects have been identified and corrected within the appropriate time frames, as well as providing evidence to the client to prove that the actions have been completed accordingly.
• Ensuring that the results of all fire door inspections are recorded diligently with the correct certificates or reports, as well as outlining the guidance that was given to the operatives concerned, when required. Assessing and authorising any corrective actions that could assist individual operatives in successfully resolving any errors. Monitor and raise legislative and regulatory changes within the fire safety industry to the stakeholders within the council who could be involved.
• Manage and supervise the contracts that detail door installation, as well as the remedial work for fire safety, so that it is completed on time to the required standard, ensuring that the operatives are advised on the level of compliance permitting third party sign off. Financial records concerning cost must be managed and maintained including detailed and relevant information about the installation of any doors.
  
  Ensure that site staff are motivated, working productively and adhering to all health and safety standards and policies.
• The post holder should put their own professional training into action in managing the operatives under them, ensuring that their operatives will work to the same high standard. Additional and necessary training needs must be identified by the post holder, so to use modern building techniques and practices.
• Manage and supervise an annual inspection programme for approximately 4,500 front entrance fire doors, as well as a quarterly inspection programme for approximately 1,400 communal fire doors, whilst ensuring accurate records of inspections, including defects and defect resolutions are maintained and updated accordingly.
• Liaise with clients and professional staff, such as architects, auditors, building control, fire services, surveyors and the public. Conduct routine meetings to compose reports concerning the progression of issues.
• When required, arrange, manage and supervise subcontractors to install fire doors and conduct all Fire Risk Assessment maintenance within the required standards and timeframe, ensuring that the operatives are advised on the level of compliance permitting third party sign off.

Skills and Experience:

• At least 2 years demonstrable experience of working in the Fire Safety sector
• Able to manage, control, plan and organise human and material resources to ensure that outputs, standards, targets and deadlines are met
• Able to interpret written requests and construction drawings as well as produce specifications, drawings, estimates, technical reports and give advice where necessary in compliance with policy and procedures
• Able to communicate effectively and politely, in writing and verbally, with a range of people including contractors and customers
• Demonstrable understanding of all aspects of Fire safety
• Demonstrable understanding of building industry and awareness of commercial aspects
• Knowledge of relevant fire safety regulatory and legislative requirements including Health and Safety
• BM TRADA accreditation or similar in Door installation and maintenance
• Full apprenticeship in a recognised building trade or equivalent supervisory experience within the Building Trade

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