Group Fire Risk Manager

City Plumbing; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Discounts & Cashback at retailers

Life Assurance

Extended family policy

Mental Health Support

Induction & Growth

Financial Education

Flexible Working

Inclusive Culture

Job summary

City Plumbing is seeking a Group Fire Risk Manager to methodically inspect sites, identify fire hazards, and lead safety strategies with Regional and Group management. You will produce detailed legal-compliant reports under the Fire Safety Order 2005, drive core safety metrics, and foster a proactive culture across the organisation.

The role requires collaborative stakeholder engagement, a strong focus on risk mitigation, and a clear commitment to integrity and safety excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience in fire safety industry or similar role.
• Experience with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

Responsibilities

• Methodically inspect sites to identify fire hazards and risks.
• Lead and deliver safety strategies with senior management.
• Maintain legally compliant reports for Fire Safety Order 2005.
• Drive safety metrics including incident reporting and LTIFR.
• Foster proactive safety culture across the organisation.

Skills

Fire safety knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Driving licence

Job description

The role:

As our Group Fire Risk Manager, your role is fundamental to our mission of making homes, businesses, and lives better. You will work methodically to identify fire hazards and risks to people and property through comprehensive site inspections. Partnering closely with Regional Management and the Group senior management team, you will lead, deliver, and own overarching strategies that ensure legal compliance, protect lives and assets, and foster a proactive safety culture across our entire organisation.

#BelongWithUs

Come join us as our new Fire Risk Assessor and work within a successful Health & Safety team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Methodically inspect sites to identify fire hazards and risks to people and property.
• Partner with Regional Management and the Group senior management team to lead, deliver, and own safety strategies.
• Maintain legally compliant, detailed reports to ensure full alignment with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
• Oversee and drive core operational safety metrics, including cost reductions, comprehensive accident reporting, logging near misses, and managing the lost time injury frequency rate.
• Foster an organizational-wide, proactive safety culture to safeguard teams and corporate assets.

You:

You'll have an innovative and agile approach to identifying risk mitigation and growth opportunities. You'll enjoy working collaboratively with a dedicated focus on driving results, whilst being committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Required skills and competencies:

• Previous experience within the fire safety industry or similar role.
• Relevant experience with the fire service or health and safety more generally.
• Able to work & engage with business stakeholders to manage Fire compliance.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and industry best practices & an interest to seek this information.
• Fire risk assessor - CPD and/or RoSPA accredited
• UK driving license, clean.

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, we have all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! DHS is dedicated to the provision of heating and other spare parts to both business and consumer. Operating through our website, helpful call centre, and a single trade counter at our Leyland based warehouse, DHS have over 20,000 different spare part products ready to be delivered the very next day. We're proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we're super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

#BelongWithUs

We're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don't want you to 'fit' our culture, we want you to enrich it.

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