Fire Safety Business Partner

Home based, covering the Central Region (Coventry, Northampton, Hereford & Worcester)

Permanent, Full Time

Stonewater are seeking a Fire Safety Business Partner – someone to provide technical advice and assurance regarding the fire safety of our residential and commercial properties.

As our Fire Safety Business Partner, you will undertake desk top reviews of proposed new build and refurbishment schemes and provide commentary and recommendations regarding design standards and specifications. You will review resident alteration requests to ensure that proposals do not enhance the risk from fire within the dwelling or the building as a whole and undertake fire safety assurance audits across the residential building stock to ensure fire safety risks are being robustly managed.

Reporting to the Head of Fire & Building Safety, you will visit sites and undertake door and compartmentation surveys to specify works, audit and maintain the contents of secure information boxes where installed in 11-18m blocks of flats, within your allocated operational area, ensure fire evacuation strategies for blocks of flats are documented and undertake emergency evacuation statements for customer who require them.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a member of the IFE at Graduate grade (or higher).
• Hold a Level 4 qualification in fire safety management, risk assessment or engineering. (Those with a Level 3 qualification but hold Associate membership or full member status, with relevant experience in a similar role will also be considered).
• Hold a fire door inspection and passive fire inspector qualification (training will be provided)
• Have demonstrable experience of working within a social housing organisation in a similar role.
• Be able to demonstrate detailed knowledge regarding fire safety statutory instruments, British Standards and Sector guidance.
• Be able to demonstrate an understanding of building pathology.
• Understand The Building Safety Act and Social Housing Act.
• Understand JCT and other contract forms.
• Have experience of carrying out site inspection and audits to monitor change and ensure the quality of delivery.
• Be able to communicate effectively at all levels and produce coherent, written documentation.
• Be able to translate technical content for non-technical stakeholders in an informative and engaging way.
• Be able to work effectively in partnership with multi-disciplinary teams and external stakeholders.
• Be able to monitor and coordinate key programmes of work.

Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.

Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.

Discover Stonewater:

Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.

Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.

We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.

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