Director of Operations - Fire Protection & Compliance

360 Recruitment; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

360 Recruitment is recruiting on behalf of a market leader in passive fire protection. They seek an experienced operations director or contract manager to step up and lead site operations across multiple projects, ensuring compliance, safety and on-time delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, proven management of teams and subcontractors, and a proactive approach to securing new work and coordinating budgets, resources and variations with senior management.

Qualifications

• CSCS card/NVQ Level 2 minimum and SMSTS/SSSTS preferred.
• Fire Doors experience is essential with previous management exposure.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills are required.
• Proactive, robust and commercially minded with leadership capability.

Responsibilities

• Regular communication with senior leadership and client stakeholders.
• Ensure health and safety compliance and project scope management.
• Attract new work and respond to tender enquiries.
• Oversee contracts managers and manage staff and subcontractors.
• Coordinate budgets and live job management with MD.
• Support variation processes and stock/shipment coordination.
• Build client relationships and ensure resource adequacy.

Skills

Excellent communication

Highly organised

Assertive and proactive

Robust commercially minded

Flexible and adaptable

Education

CSCS Card/NVQ Level 2

SSSTS/SMSTS

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel)

Job description

360 Recruitment is recruiting on behalf of a market leader in passive fire protection. They seek an experienced operations director or contract manager to step up and lead site operations across multiple projects, ensuring compliance, safety and on-time delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, proven management of teams and subcontractors, and a proactive approach to securing new work and coordinating budgets, resources and variations with senior management.