Fire Door Carpenter
Sub Division: Facilities Management
Location: London
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday
Creating and maintaining great places to live and work delivered by excellent people who care…
Purpose of Role
We’re seeking an experienced and proactive Fire Door Inspector to join our compliance and lifecycle team, managing approximately 2,000 fire door assets across high-profile public sector sites.
Job Description
The role combines technical inspections, data management, and oversight of remedial and lifecycle works, offering a clear development route towards management. This is a mobile position covering a variety of framework contracts focused on education and leisure – covering the UCL Campus in Stratford, PFI contracts in Corydon, Swinson & Croydon and Medway Police Station.
Responsibilities
•Carry out comprehensive fire door inspections in accordance with BS 8214, BS 9999, and all current fire safety legislation.
•Record and report findings accurately using Fieldwire software, including tagging, photographic evidence, and defect logging.
•Analyse inspection data to identify trends, prioritise risks, and inform lifecycle replacement programmes.
•Plan, coordinate, and manage remedial repair works, ensuring all actions meet compliance standards and are completed within agreed timeframes.
•Develop and manage the PPM programme post-inspection, maintaining consistent compliance across circa 2,000 assets.
•Produce detailed inspection and compliance reports to support asset management and client assurance.
Essential Qualifications/Skills
•Qualified Fire Door Inspector (FDIS, FIRAS, or equivalent).
•Demonstrable experience inspecting, repairing, and managing fire door compliance programmes.
•Strong understanding of passive fire protection and building safety regulations.
•Confident in the use of Fieldwire or similar digital compliance tools.
•Excellent data handling and reporting capabilities for asset tracking and performance analysis.
•Experience in coordinating remedial and lifecycle projects.
•Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel regionally.
In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.
We are VINCI Facilities – experts in the built environment. VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost-effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders – and we were named the top-ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020. We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish. We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.