Building Safety Manager

Fixed Term Contract – 6 to 12 months

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Home based London / South East England

Salary: £75k to £85K (negotiable depending on experience) Car Allowance, Pension

Start Date: ASAP

As a Building Safety Manager you will be joining an established Consultancy with a broad client base across the UK.

Position Objective

You will provide advice on both new buildings and buildings to produce the Building Safety Case and the Safety Case Report. Your role is to help protect life, property, and the wider environment from risk of fire and to help ensure that projects meet industry codes and legislative requirements, as well as providing advice to the client on how to manage the Safety Case Report.

This role could possibly be mostly desktop work reviewing documentation and reporting on the safety case after documentation provided by client. Possible site work if required but not always necessary. To liaise with local authority, regulatory bodies if required.

Main Responsibilities

* Identifying possible fire related risks and reducing or eliminating them with recommendations as part of the gap analysis
* Making designs, calculations, sketches and/or diagrams to help prevent fire or fire spread (fire strategy)
* Incorporating fire safety procedures into designs – such as sprinkler systems, emergency exits and fire alarms – to minimise the risk of injury and loss of life in the event of a fire, taking into account both the structural integrity of the building and human behaviour
* Making recommendations for the material used in the construction or refurbishment of a building
* Keeping up to date with regulations and legislation
* Visiting project/construction sites to advise on the installation or implementation of the designs
* Providing advice that feeds into decisions on safe building occupancy levels, fire evacuation plans and fire engineering solutions as part of the golden thread gap analysis
* Writing reports on safety case reports based on evidence from the gap analysis
* Writing Fire Safety Management Plans
* Liaising with local authorities and/or building control professionals if and as required

Key Skills

* Fire Engineering Degree/fire safety modules from fire authority (preferable)
* Level 6 health and safety qualification, such as the NEBOSH Diploma, NCRQ if possible
* NEBOSH Fire certificate, Level 3 or level 4 diploma for fire risk assessment, degree or advanced FPA fire course.
* Membership of IOSH, IFSM, IFE, IIRSM. Grad IFE, MIFSM MIIRSM
* Experience interpreting and implementing complex safety management systems either on a global scale, or in medium/ high risk industries
* Significant experience in a H&S, Fire role operating under an established Health and Safety and Fire Management System
* Liaison with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels of an organisation

The role will suit individuals currently working as a Building Safety Manager, Fire Safety Manager, Health and Safety Consultant, H&S Consultant, Fire Safety Consultant, Risk Assessor and be living within a commutable distance of London, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire or be willing to relocate.

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