Fire Door Supervisor

TN United Kingdom; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Fire Door Supervisor, where your expertise will directly contribute to fire safety excellence. In this pivotal role, you will lead a skilled team, ensuring compliance and reliability of fire doors across properties. Your leadership will help maintain safety standards, conduct assessments, and manage fire door-related works. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a real difference in the community while enjoying a supportive work environment with excellent benefits. If you are passionate about safety and ready to lead, this is your chance to shine.

Benefits

Excellent pension scheme

Free onsite gym

Volunteer work opportunities

25 days annual leave

Free Employee Assistance programme

Free annual flu vaccination

Cycle to Work scheme

Fun workplace events

Modern office facilities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in building carpentry works.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation and fire safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team ensuring fire doors are compliant and functional.
• Manage inspections, repairs, and installation of fire doors.

Skills

Building Carpentry Works

Customer Service

Fire Safety Management

Health and Safety Legislation

Problem-Solving

Education

Relevant Trade Qualification

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Fire Door Supervisor Be a Key Player in Protecting Lives and Property

Are you ready to take on a role that truly makes a difference? As Fire Door Supervisor, you'll play a vital part in supporting the Fire Safety Manager, acting as a driving force behind Plymouth Community Homes’ commitment to fire safety excellence and ensuring that PCH meets all of its statutory and non-statutory fire safety management duties in relation to fire safety legislation and associated building regulations.

In this pivotal role, you’ll lead a skilled team of Fire Door Operatives, ensuring that every fire door across our properties is compliant, reliable, and ready to perform its life-saving function. From managing inspections and repairs to overseeing the installation of new fire doors in homes and communal spaces, your leadership will directly contribute to keeping our residents safe.

As well as this you will support the provision of a proactive professional functional service, embracing related areas of fire safety management including assistance with relevant development of strategy and policy, maintaining a quality information system, undertaking fire door assessments, fire door inspections/audits, investigating fire safety incidents related to fire doors, specifying and managing fire-door related remedial works and providing fire-door related advice.

If you’re passionate about safety, ready to lead from the front, and want a role with real purpose this is your chance to step up and make your mark.

Our ideal candidate for this role is someone who:

• Has demonstrable experience of building carpentry works within a recognised trade or skill or profession.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced customer focused repairs service.
• Experience of working to BM TRADA, or other recognised industry standards.
• Knowledge of Building Maintenance Industry.
• Extensive knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation, including Construction (Design & Management) Regulations and asbestos awareness.
• Has developed effective solutions to resolve complex fire safety problems.
• Has proven experience within a similar role allowing you to utilise the above qualifications
• A proven ability to work independently within a team and work flexible hours to meet the needs of the service
• Values in providing great customer care

About Plymouth Community Homes

We are the city’s largest social housing association, with over 16,000 properties providing homes for more than 35,000 people, and we’re aiming to grow, to provide more people with high-quality, affordable homes to rent and buy.

With a great workforce and a focus on people, we deliver good quality, well-managed and well-maintained homes.

What we can offer you:

• Excellent pension scheme with a high level of employer contributions
• Free, fully equipped onsite gym and changing facilities.
• The opportunity to carry out volunteer work for 3 days a year through our Make a Difference scheme
• Annual leave of 25 days (rising to 30 days) plus Bank Holidays and holiday trading option
• Free Employee Assistance programme, including free counselling
• Free annual flu vaccination
• Cycle to Work scheme
• The opportunity to work in a beautiful and vibrant part of the Southwest
• We support digital working with modern devices/smart phones
• It's fun to work here- we have dress down Fridays, company quizzes, and lots of charity events throughout the year
• Our modern and spacious offices are right on a bus route, and just three miles from the city centre
• We get a daily visit from a local food van, and within walking distance to local Crownhill shops, Warrens, M&S Foodhall, Co-op, Starbucks and Tim Hortons

To Apply:

If you are interested in this fantastic opportunity please select apply and complete our form, making reference to the person specification to demonstrate how you consider that your knowledge, skills and experience meet the requirements of the job.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Nigel Hill, Fire Remediation Manager on 07876397063.

This post is not suitable for job share.

Shortlisting Date: 26th May 2025

Interview Date: Week Commencing 2nd June 2025

As part of the interview process, candidates will be required to undertake a practical assessment.

If you are an apprentice, please ensure that you make the Learning & Development team aware that you intend to apply for this position.

We are a committed Equal Opportunities employer. We welcome applications from suitably talented people from any community and background.