Head of Fire Safety & Asbestos

Metropolitan Housing Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent housing organization is seeking a Head of Fire Safety & Asbestos to oversee fire safety measures, ensuring compliance with all legislation and effective management of contractors. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in fire safety management and a strong understanding of relevant regulations. This role offers a competitive salary and a commitment to supporting employee well-being and development.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

Enhanced pension contributions

Hybrid working options

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in fire safety management.
• Strong knowledge of legislation and best practices in fire safety.
• Experience managing contracts and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Manage contractors' performance and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Monitor budgets and ensure services are delivered effectively.
• Develop and implement the fire safety strategy.

Skills

Fire Safety Management

Regulatory Compliance

Contract Management

Budget Management

Education

Relevant Safety Management Qualification

Job description

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The role

Title: Head of Fire Safety & Asbestos

Salary: £76,459 - £80,483 (Nottingham) or £85,067 - £89,544 (London)

Location: Waterfront House, Beeston or TJB, Farringdon

Permanent

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

This role

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced individual to join our team as the Head of Fire Safety. Above all, your remit will be to keep our customers safe. In this role you will be responsible for MTVH’s Fire Safety, and manage our internal FRAs and remedial process. This is a critical role where you will ensure MTVH is compliant with all relevant legislation relating to these services, and liaise closely with our Building Safety directorate where support is required for HRBs.

It is expected that you proactively keep MTVH up to date on best practice for fire safety, particularly around Fire Risk Assessments and associated remedial works, the changes in legislation in the fire sector, and ensure our fire safety service is fit for purpose.

You will be responsible for monitoring contract budgets and ensuring services are managed effectively, providing value for money and delivering the agreed services. You will work closely with appointed consultants who will provide support relating to statutory and regulatory compliance and technical expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and challenge the contractors' performance
• Ensure MTVH are fully compliant with all relevant statutory, regulatory and corporate requirements.
• Ensure that all responsive repairs to fire equipment are carried out promptly to a high standard.
• Establish and deliver a programme of replacement works for capital renewals
• Ensure staff performance is formally reviewed in accordance with MTVH policy and that regular one-to-ones are held with your staff.
• Be the responsible person for effective management of risk to the health and safety of customers in the homes we own relating to your remit
• Ensure budgets are managed, and works are completed to the correct quality
• Have oversight and co-ordinate with technical professionals to make commercial decisions about out of scope works, based upon contractor / consultant reports.
• Visit sites as required to identify and rectify issues both proactively and in emergency
• Lead on the procurement and commercial evaluation of contracts
• Develop and deliver MTVH's fire safety strategy in relation to Fire Safety including our internal FRA programme delivered through our Assessors
• Review terms and conditions of leases and tenancy agreements, to ensure terms and conditions are uniformed to reflect management repair liability and charging processes.
• Ensure 3rd party stakeholders who are responsible for providing MTVH with FRAs, or responsible for FRA remedial works are compliant

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it's the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Interview date

TBC

The recruitment process for this role will comprise of two interview stages, the first stage will include a presentation task as well as competency based questions. Details of the task will be provided with the interview invite.

Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What's in it for you?

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional 'Beliefs day' once a year to have an extra day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working – dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme – we are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively 'Serving people better every day' to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and others' wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we're doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Network groups are: Gender, Ethnicity, LGBTQ+, Disability.

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

For a full breakdown of company benefits, please see the attached Benefits Digital Booklet: https://view.pagetiger.com/bksiskh/001