What’s Great About the Role?

• Career Development: Whether you're building proficiency or sharpening your expertise, we’ll support your growth through hands on experience and relevant qualifications.
• Work That Matters: Your role directly impacts the safety and wellbeing of tenants, staff, visitors and contractors, ensuring compliance with critical regulations.
• Collaboration and Impact: Work alongside our Property Safety Manager, fire safety specialists, and contractors to enhance the safety culture across the organisation.

Where Does This Role Fit In?

You’ll be a key part of our Assets - Compliance Team, responsible for ensuring our properties meet statutory health and safety regulations.

• Tier 1: Perfect for professionals developing their fire safety career, focusing on learning and applying best practices in Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs) and quality assurance.
• Tier 2: Suited for experienced fire safety professionals ready to take on managing FRAs, providing advice and support to internal stakeholders, responding to Fire Service notices, and mentoring junior colleagues.

Your work will involve conducting inspections, raising remedial orders, ensuring timely compliance, engaging with contractors, and advising on fire safety improvements.

What Skills and Experience Do You Need?

For Tier 1 Candidates:

• Experience: A background in the housing/construction industry and building proficiency in fire safety and risk inspections.
• Education & Training: Working towards NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety and IFE accreditation
• Skills: Strong communication, workload management, and IT proficiency.
• Knowledge: Awareness of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and health and safety legislation.

For Tier 2 Candidates:

• Experience: Proven expertise in fire risk assessments, compliance audits, and enhancing fire safety culture.
• Education & Training: NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety and Graduate Membership of the Institute of Fire Engineers (GIFireE).
• Skills: Leadership in contractor management, detailed technical knowledge, and ability to resolve complex safety issues.
• Knowledge: In depth understanding of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and construction related health and safety standards.

Both levels require a full driving licence and access to a vehicle for work.

What are the pay and benefits? 

• £36,907 (Tier 1) or £41,489 (Tier 2) for a 37-hour, full time, fixed term role until 31^st Dec 2025
• This can be offered as a secondment, and we advise for all colleagues to liaise with their manager prior to applying.
• Flexible working policies – Our offices are in Newport & Swansea where our team meetings take place. Your role will involve working throughout South Wales, primarily. Time can be spent at home and in the office to complete any relevant admin tasks.
• Mileage is paid at 45p per mile.
• 26 days holiday entitlement plus Bank Holidays, rising to 30 days with length of service
• All other internal benefits will be available too 

What’s FREDIE? 

At Pobl Group we are guided, in all that we do, by a group of principles that we call FREDIE, these are: Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, Engagement. This means that whatever your background, you will have an equal opportunity at Pobl Group and we encourage you to apply now.  

How do you apply?  

If you have the skills, experience and enthusiasm required to be our next difference maker, please follow the prompts to apply now. We just need an up-to-date CV, short/focused cover letter along with a few contact details so that we can get back in touch with you.

We are interviewing quickly and would like the successful candidate to start asap.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you would like any support with your application or to discuss any adjustments that you may require to support you to application process, please contact group.talent@poblgroup.co.uk or 0300 3735262