Fire Safety Surveyor

Join our awesome team of building and safety professionals! You'll manage on site works to successful completion through pre and post inspection. You'll ensure work is delivered in accordance with Building Regulations, good practice and fire safety standards. If you're excited about making sure that our customers' experience is at the heart of everything you do, this could be your perfect next step! Typical day as a Fire Safety Surveyor

• Carrying out pre and post inspections of fire risk actions carried out by contractors and colleagues. You'll also respond promptly to actions identified, specifying works required to correct standards.
• Providing technical advice and support to our trades, maintenance managers, subcontractors and suppliers so we deliver a high-quality, cost-effective and compliant service.
• Contract management including progress against building works schedules. Utilising customer insight to support us in delivering on our customer promise.
• Ensuring all works carried out meet health and safety standards with zero tolerance taken to non-compliance.
• Overseeing our Fire Safety Contractors who maintain our Active Fire Systems and managing any related systems or issues
• Overseeing specialist contractors in the delivery of our passive fire programme (Fire doors, fire stopping etc)
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You'll do that here, working for a Top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK!,
• Working Monday to Friday, you'll shape your own diary around work, customers' and your own commitments.
• Based around the southern side of the M25, the patch covers South West and South East London, as well as parts of Surrey, Berkshire, and Kent, with occasional travel beyond the M25.
• This is a community-based role and when you are not out and about you will spend time catching up either from home or in a local office.
• You are confident using technology for updating records, budget and KPI management, completing online learning and collaborating with other colleagues.
• You'll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that.
• You drive and have access to your own vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we pay you for that use and your mileage.
  
  Building surveying experience including property condition and Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) actions and specifying remedial works.
• Current knowledge of building repairs, construction and safety.
• Able to manage, control budgets and expenditure.
• A vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we'll pay your mileage!
• A self-starter approach, able to work unsupervised to manage your own patch, working commercially to deliver our programmes of work on time and to budget.
• You'll act quickly when things go wrong, take ownership and are accountable to put things 'right first time' through collaborative working.
• In an ideal world, you will also hold RICS or have a CIOB professional registration or are working towards this.
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

You'll join David's team of surveyors and there will be 6 of us all together. David has worked for Home Group for 6 years and knows the organisation inside out. He is perfectly placed to support you as you join! Outside of work, David is big on astronomy and knows where the dark sky zones are to take full advantage of his telescope! The team get together once a month but always support each other, even if not in the same room., Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!


• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) rising to 38 days, the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We'll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.