Fire Safety Manager HSWBS

Brighton-; Hove; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking a Fire Safety Manager to join the Building & Fire Safety Team at Hove Town Hall. You will drive the fire safety strategy, develop policies and guidance, and ensure compliance across council properties.

You will build strong relationships with stakeholders across directorates, communicate effectively, and manage a demanding workload with attention to detail and a pragmatic approach. Interview date to be confirmed.

Job description

Fire Safety Manager HSWBS

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Location Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

Salary £49,817 - £53,051 Contractual hours 37 Basis Flexi Hours

Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job category/type Repairs and Maintenance Date posted 29/10/2026

Job description

At Brighton & Hove City Council we are making great progress on developing our Health, Safety and Wellbeing approaches, through our team of committed practitioners.

We are looking to recruit a Fire Safety Manager, to join a busy team of enthusiastic people to help ensure the quality and consistency of Building and Fire Safety arrangements and performance across the council.

Are you an effective communicator, able to work effectively and sensitively with a wide range of people? Do you have great attention to detail and have a pragmatic balanced approach to managing your workload? Are you able to build and maintain strong and productive relationships with stakeholders across the Council including educational establishments?

Due to the varied nature of our work, it can be challenging as well as rewarding.

If this is you, then we would love to hear from you.

Interview date: To be confirmed

There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact: Graeme Stimpson, Building & Fire Safety Service Manager, on [e-mail] .

About the role

The Fire Safety Manager role sits in the Building & Fire Safety Team; one of the Services of the Health Safety & Wellbeing Facilities & Building Services service area. Building Services is responsible for the statutory compliance and ongoing repair & maintenance of our stock of corporate properties within the City of Brighton & Hove. We have a diverse portfolio with properties ranging from the Victorian era to new build properties.

Due to the stock profile and age, alongside increasing regulation and new legalisation, it will be vital that you are able to drive efficiency in how our compliance activities are undertaken whilst ensuring that building user safety remains the number one priority.

As Fire Safety Manager you will be responsible for setting the Fire Safety approach of the service, and production of policies and guidance. We pride ourselves on our cross working with other Directorates and Teams and you will need to develop effective relationships with key corporate stakeholders within the Council.

The role needs someone with exceptional self-motivation and organisation skills, who is comfortable working in a complex environment, is an influential communicator and has a proven track-record of delivering competent, Fire Safety advice.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

DBS statement options:

1) remove both if DBS not required

2) for Basic DBS - keep only:

3) for Standard or Enhanced DBS - keep only:

Please note that this post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Criminal Records Check.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.