Safety Manager
Location: Flexible working arrangements. Office based in Bedford with travel to sites across London and occasionally other regions of the UK
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience + training & benefits
About Us
We are a growing, bespoke consultancy providing specialist fire safety, health and safety, and project management services to clients, with a strong focus on high-rise residential buildings. We specialize in ensuring the safety and compliance of purpose-built blocks of flats, especially high-rise buildings, providing a high standard of support and expertise to our clients.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Safety Manager with a minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in fire risk assessment including high-rise residential blocks.
This is a senior leadership role with formal responsibility for managing and developing the survey team. Alongside undertaking complex or higher-risk assessments, the role is accountable for technical quality assurance, team capability, workload coordination, and client-facing delivery.
You will balance people leadership with hands-on technical involvement, acting as a senior point of expertise within the business. We are looking for someone who can hit the ground running after induction and who wants to make a genuine impact within a growing consultancy.
You will join a busy, sociable, and supportive office environment, with clear opportunities for professional development and progression.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a team of surveyors undertaking onsite health, safety, and fire safety inspections, primarily at high-rise residential buildings, including fire fisk assessments, passive fire compartmentation, fire door inspections, health and safety assessments, BSR compliance audits, and asbestos surveys in line with the statutory regulations.
- Ensure surveyors produce clear, accurate, and comprehensive fire safety reports, policies, and evacuation procedures, tailored to the building and client needs.
- Where necessary, travel to sites across London and occasionally to other regions of England to train and validate surveyors and assist as may be necessary.
- Review, quality-check, and formally validate and sign off risk assessments and technical outputs produced by the team, within agreed authority levels.
- Act as a senior technical and operational point of contact for both colleagues and clients.
- Provide day-to-day technical guidance, mentoring, and coaching to consultants and company employees.
- Coordinate workloads, capacity, and priorities across the survey team, ensuring work is allocated in line with competence and risk profile.
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum Level 4 qualification in Fire Risk Assessments of high-rise residential blocks of flats requirements.
- At least 5 years’ proven experience undertaking fire risk assessments, particularly within high-rise residential blocks of flats.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant fire and building safety legislation, including:
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
- Building Safety Act 2022
- Fire Safety Act 2021
- Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
- Health and safety etc Act 1974 and associated regulations and guidance
- CDM Regulations
- Experience interpreting complex specialist reports (e.g. fire engineering, intrusive surveys, façade assessments) and advising on outcomes and required remediation.
- Proven experience leading or coordinating a surveying team.
Skills and Attributes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to be assertive where required.
- Ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, including residents and managing agents.
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and comfortable working both independently and as part of a team.
- Confident decision-maker with a proactive, solution-focused approach.
- Able to work under pressure and manage competing deadlines.
Additional Requirements
- Flexibility in working hours to meet site and client demands.
- UK driving licence (preferred).
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Ongoing professional training and development support.
- Company phone and site equipment.
- Collaborative and dynamic working environment.
- BUPA healthcare including family (after 1 year of service).
- BUPA dentistry including family (after 1 year of service).
- Birthday day off (after probation).
- 20 days’ annual leave + bank holidays, increasing to 25 days with service.
- Professional membership fees paid.
How to Apply
Please submit your CV, detailing your qualifications, experience, and relevant training.
You should also include a brief cover letter explaining your interest in the role and what you hope to achieve as part of our team.
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