Senior Fire Safety Manager

Role Responsibility

As Senior Fire Safety Manager, you will lead for fire safety management across the organisation. To provide technical and leadership skills to improve knowledge, behaviours and ultimately fire safety.

As Executive Assistant you will:

• Be responsible for leading the fire safety function
• Create strategic objectives to improve fire safety, knowledge, behaviours and compliance
• Work strategically and tactically to ensure the safety of Selfridges’ buildings and the people within them and achieve best practices throughout the business
• Ensure the Fire Strategies within the business are met, particularly during project and construction works
• Achieve compliance with the Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order (2005), specifically Part 1, Article 5 and Part 2, Articles 8-23
• Ensure Selfridges gets the right type and level of technical advice and instruction either delivered through the Health and Safety team or via third party specialists – for example, Fire Safety Engineers, Designers, Risk Assessors
• Increase the knowledge of the Fire Strategy requirements for Selfridges’ four stores, continually educating the relevant people on the why the requirements are important as well as what and how they should be achieved
• Improve the awareness and understanding of the responsibilities relating to fire safety amongst stakeholders and in doing so, positively influence the behaviours of their teams and improve fire safety management within our business
• Influence and challenge stakeholders to gain better insight 
• Support the continuous improvement of fire safety throughout the business through the creation of initiatives, education and completion of identified improvements
• Create robust policies and raise awareness of these policies amongst relevant parties
• Analyse data from both leading and lacking indicators and produce monthly reports for all stores and areas of the business
• Work with key stakeholders discussing findings of data analysis and the impact on their activity – lowering risks, increasing knowledge and improving behaviours and performance
• Proactively identify training needs and opportunities and support the delivery of them to relevant parties throughout the business
• Work with the Learning and Development team and Retail Training team to create and deliver Health & Safety training 

The Ideal Candidate

• Membership of IFE or IFSM
• Essential – qualification in fire safety management or fire engineering at Degree or Diploma level (or equivalent)
• Currently working in a strategic role with a high level of responsibility
• Liaising with enforcing authorities
• Working with Architects, Designers, Project Managers, Engineers and Building Control Officers
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, undergoing regular change and growth
• Sound knowledge of fire safety standards and guidance documents
• Use of MS Office
• Strong at building working relationships with key stakeholders across all levels – highly approachable and a strong communicator with the ability to influence behaviours
• Responsible, able to lead the fire safety function and work both strategically and tactically
• Ability to work to tight deadlines in a very fast paced environment
• Highly self-motivated individual with strong prioritisation skills
• Flexible approach to suit the needs of the business with a high level of care taken in each task
• Strong team player but can also work autonomously to deliver results
• An example of our values, a trusted and respected colleague

This guide represents a summary of the role, however all team members are expected to be flexible in the work they undertake, which may change from time to time, according to the needs of the business​

Package Description

Please review the responsibilities and requirements carefully to ensure you have the skills and experience for this particular role. Unfortunately, if you do not have the relevant experience, your application will not be able to be progressed to interview stage.

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