Fire Safety Manager – High Rise Task Force (x2) – Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

Job Title: Fire Safety Manager – High Rise Task Force – Protection (x2)

Contract: Permanent

Working Hours: Day Duty

Salary: Watch Manager – £46,707

Location: TBC

Closing Date: 12th January 2025

As an operational employee, you will be required to maintain operational competency, and support availability and work from various stations across the county, in line with our Day-Duty Officers Riding (DDOR) principles. This is a requirement of the role and an essential condition to maintaining Grey Book terms and conditions.

The Role

Do you share our passion for making our communities safer? Do you have experience in regulating fire safety at high rise residential buildings, and can you provide practical advice on how to make our buildings and workspaces safer places? Are you excited to learn more about making Essex a safe place to live work and travel putting your knowledge and skills into practice in a diverse and challenging county?

If so, then the right opportunity for you has arisen within our Protection (formerly known as Fire Safety) team. As part of our Protection Strategy, we are committed to increasing fire safety compliance at high rise residential buildings across Essex. There have been significant changes in legislation relating to these premises over the past 2 years, following on from recommendations from the Grenfell Enquiry, and we are looking for the right people to represent us in the community, providing the right advice and responses to fire safety challenges.

This role will involve managing a small team to carry out regulatory activity across Essex, including the drafting and issuing of formal notices, such as Enforcement Notices. This role will also involve working with the Regional Building Safety Manager, and ensuring work assigned to us by the Building Safety Regulator is assigned to the team appropriately and completed.

Work will include inspecting a variety of buildings, providing advice to the responsible person and where necessary taking enforcement action. Other aspects of this role include assessing statutory consultations including a requirement to assess the design of new or extended buildings against the Building Regulations to ensure the design is compliant.

What You Will Be Working On

Managing and carrying out regulatory activity at high rise residential buildings across Essex.

Supporting Protection Leaders with workstreams coming out from MHCLG, such as data gathering at mid-rise residential buildings.

Carry out fire safety audits in accordance with ECFRS Risk Based Inspection Programme

Carry out statutory consultations on a wide range of premises ranging from low to very high complexity, including as part of a multi-discipline team (MDT) within the BSR’s Gateway process.

Alleged fire risks

Protection support to operational colleagues