Fire Actions Programme Manager

Housing Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 54,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension up to 8%

Healthcare cash plan (Medicash)

Discount scheme (cinema, gym, high-st)

25 days annual leave (pro-rata)

Job summary

Housing Group seeks an experienced Fire Actions Programme Manager to lead the delivery of our fire safety compliance programme, ensuring the safety of residents, customers and colleagues.

You will oversee Fire Risk Assessments and Fire Door Inspections, drive improvements, and provide expert fire safety guidance across our housing portfolio, working with the Fire Safety Manager and stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance and high safety standards.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering fire safety within residential buildings.
• Experience procuring and managing fire safety contracts.
• Strong understanding of fire safety legislation and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of fire risk assessments and fire door inspections.
• Oversee remedial action plans and ensure compliance standards.
• Provide expert fire safety advice and monitor performance metrics.
• Promote a positive fire safety culture and build stakeholder relationships.
• Coordinate with customers, regulators, and internal teams to meet safety commitments.

Skills

Fire safety management

Stakeholder engagement

Project coordination

Data-driven decisions

Education

Fire safety qualification

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Fire Actions Programme Manager to lead the delivery of our fire safety compliance programme, ensuring the safety of our residents, customers and colleagues.

Reporting to the Fire Safety Manager, you will be responsible for the effective management of Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs), Fire Door Inspections (FDIs), associated remedial works and fire safety assurance activities across our housing portfolio.

You will play a key role in ensuring compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, Fire Safety (England) Regulations and other relevant legislation, whilst driving continuous improvement and promoting a positive fire safety culture throughout the organisation.

What will my working week look like?

Whilst you will be expected to undertake work from home, your role requires varying periods working on patch and other ad hoc locations supporting the Group's customers.

You will also need to be based within a reasonable travelling distance of our Head Office in Birchwood, Warrington to attend meetings and training courses when needed.

What will I be responsible for doing?

As Fire Actions Programme Manager, you will play a key role in delivering the Group's fire safety strategy and compliance framework. Working closely with the Fire Safety Manager, you will help ensure compliance with all relevant fire safety legislation, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.

You will lead the delivery of fire risk assessment and fire door inspection programmes, overseeing remedial action plans to ensure risks are effectively managed and compliance standards are maintained. The role also involves providing expert fire safety advice, monitoring performance and compliance metrics, and driving continuous improvement across the organisation.

Working collaboratively with customers, contractors, regulators, and internal teams, you will promote a positive fire safety culture, build strong stakeholder relationships, and support the Group in meeting its commitment to keeping residents, colleagues, and properties safe.

To be a successful Fire Actions Programme Manager, here at YHG, you'll bring a relevant fire safety, building safety or related professional qualification, alongside a commitment to continuing professional development. You'll have strong experience of managing fire safety within residential buildings, with a sound understanding of fire safety legislation, guidance and best practice.

We're looking for someone who has experience procuring and managing fire safety contracts, working collaboratively with Fire & Rescue Services and overseeing inspections, audits and quality assurance activities. You'll be confident using performance data and KPIs to drive improvements, and have a good understanding of landlord compliance, asset management and wider health and safety requirements, including CDM Regulations.

Most importantly, you'll be someone who can effectively investigate issues, identify solutions and drive positive outcomes, ensuring high standards of safety, compliance and customer service are consistently achieved.

This role is suited to someone who enjoys building strong relationships, communicating effectively with a wide range of people and working collaboratively to achieve positive outcomes. You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can stay organised, manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality results. You'll also enjoy using data, technology and regulatory knowledge to drive compliance, solve problems and support continuous improvement.

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.

As one of the North's sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.

We're an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

As part of our pre-employment checks, this role requires the successful applicant to complete a satisfactory Basic DBS check.

In return we offer £40,500-£46,500 for a 35-hour week, and 25 days (pro-rata) annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

We trust our people to manage their own diaries, if you need time for an appointment, the school run or an exercise class, as long as it fits with business needs, we're open to what works for you too. And when you need to collaborate with your team, you can visit Youggle House - our wellbeing, social, collaboration and meeting space, in Birchwood, Warrington.

On top of this, we'll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn't just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.