Fire Safety Manager

• Fire Safety Manager
• Mansfield – NG17
• £50,000 p/a

We are currently working for a Fire Safety Manager to work across a series of hospitals in the Mansfield area. Working with their in-house team and external contractors you’ll manage regular maintenance, testing and internal audits. Keeping accurate records at all times, you’ll be able to produce regular reports to show the site’s performance in fire safety compliance.

The company are willing to undergo training in some areas so if you have  knowledge of some of the below areas but not all of them, you are still encouraged to apply.

You’ll be responsible for all areas of fire safety across the building including, but not limited to:

• Fire Alarms
• Fire Dampers
• Smoke Dampers
• Fire Doors
• Extinguishers
• Fire Walls
• Duct Systems

Duties of the role include:

• Testing an inspection will be carried out by yourself and the in-house engineering team as well as using specialist subcontractors in some areas.
• Managing compliance, health and safety and accompanying paperwork
• High level director meetings with the Estates team and NHS
• Manage and reduce hospital energy use, cutting carbon emissions and reducing waste disposal costs
• Provide training and advice to colleagues and will recognise areas for improvement.
• Lead Authorised Person for all aspects fire (and undergoing AP training if required)
• Ensure asset information and PPM schedules are kept current, in line with HTM’s and are reflected within the maintenance program.
• Completing any project work within policies and procedure to ensure costs are controlled and recovered via appropriate lifecycle, reactive maintenance cap or ERM.

We welcome anyone with experience in fire – be that someone from a compliance background, an electrician working in alarms or a mechanical engineer working in ducts. As training is provided with the role, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Ideally be electrically qualified (desirable).
• Able to drive (pool van to travel between hospitals)
• Experience in a customer focused environment & working effectively in a collaborative environment.
• Experience of carrying out compliance audits and risk assessments and maintaining compliance data bases and administrative systems.
• Knowledge of health and safety (compliance, projects, fire etc).
• Experience in hospitals or a similar complex estates is desirable.

We are welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and experiences and are committed to promoting the skills of force veterans in the workplace.