The Maintenance and Contracts service spends circa. £25 million annually repairing, maintaining and improving a retained housing stock of circa 7800 properties and 15 sheltered schemes to our local “Ipswich Standard”. The Council takes a holistic approach to stock management and has one seamless service that is now responsible for everything in connection with the asset management of that stock; from initial design to completing works on site on a right first‑time basis using our own directly employed trade teams.
Housing is a flagship service of Ipswich Borough Council and it is a service that is vital for our tenants and very much in the public eye – as you would expect with such a range of work. We benefit from working in a brand new environmentally friendly modern depot facility.
This is an exciting time to join us as we have just entered into contracts with suppliers to carry out major fire safety improvements across our housing stock.
Responsibilities
The Fire Safety Manager will be responsible for ensuring the Council maintains full compliance on all aspects of Fire Safety within its Housing stock, including meeting all regulatory standards relating to Fire Legislation, ensuring ongoing safety checks, testing, inspection, and maintenance, and ensuring all relevant HRA assets are fully maintained in line with the newly adopted fire safety strategies. The postholder will also be responsible for providing fire engineering advice and expertise to enable contracts for major fire safety improvements across the housing stock to progress successfully, and for managing a Fire Safety Surveyor and their professional development.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will have relevant qualifications, experience, and a proven track record of working in a similar role.
Benefits
We offer a good salary, a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, and an Employee Assistance Programme.
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