Fire Contracts Manager

Fire Contract Manager

Location: Homebased, with occasional travel
Job Type: Permanent | Full Time
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: £60,000 per annum

Role Overview

Are you passionate about fire safety, compliance, and delivering exceptional services that help keep residents safe?

We're looking for a Contract Manager - Fire to join our Resident and Building Safety team. Reporting to the Head of Fire and Building Safety, you'll be responsible for managing active fire safety contracts across our portfolio, ensuring services are delivered safely, compliantly, and to the highest standards.

You'll work closely with contractors, operational teams, compliance specialists and residents to provide assurance that our fire safety programmes, repairs and remediation activities meet all legislative and regulatory requirements while delivering an excellent customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage active fire safety contracts, ensuring services are delivered safely, compliantly and in line with agreed performance standards
• Monitor contractor performance through KPIs, audits, certification reviews and regular performance meetings
• Oversee reactive repairs, Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) actions and planned remediation programmes, ensuring issues are resolved within agreed timescales
• Manage contract budgets, expenditure and variations to deliver value for money
• Provide technical advice and support on active fire safety systems and compliance matters
• Maintain robust compliance reporting, governance processes and performance information
• Develop strong relationships with contractors, operational teams and key stakeholders
• Identify, manage and escalate fire safety risks appropriately
• Drive continuous improvement across fire safety compliance and customer experience
• Support policy development and service enhancements that strengthen resident and building safety.

Requirements

• Significant experience managing compliance, maintenance, fire safety or asset-related contracts within social housing or another regulated environment
• Strong experience of contractor performance management and delivering service improvements
• Experience managing compliance programmes, repairs and planned remediation activities
• Knowledge of active fire safety systems, including fire alarms, emergency lighting, sprinkler systems, smoke control systems and AOVs
• Understanding of key fire safety legislation and regulatory requirements
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills
• Experience managing budgets, KPIs and performance reporting
• Full UK Driving Licence.
• Qualification(s) in Fire Safety, Building Safety, Construction, Building Surveying, Property Compliance or a related discipline are desirable.
• Membership of a relevant professional body such as IFE, IFSM or CABE.
• CIH Lvl 4 qualification, or working towards with a commitment to completing

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to play a crucial role in protecting residents and supporting compliance across a large and diverse property portfolio. You'll work within a highly regulated environment, helping ensure our homes remain safe while contributing to continuous improvement and service excellence.

If you're an experienced Contract Manager, Fire Safety Manager, Compliance Manager, Building Safety professional, or Property Compliance specialist looking to make a meaningful difference, we'd love to hear from you.

Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this position. Therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate their legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.