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Duration: 12 weeks with a possible extension.
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Fire Safety Surveyor
Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week)
Contract: 12 Week Temporary Contract, ending 24 January 2027
Support the Delivery of Safe, Compliant Homes Across Southern Housing
We're recruiting an experienced Fire Safety Surveyor to join Southern Housing, supporting the inspection, assessment, and delivery of fire safety works across residential properties.
This is a specialist surveying role for someone with strong knowledge of fire safety, building compliance, housing stock, and remedial works. You'll help ensure properties meet required fire safety standards, risks are identified and managed appropriately, and remedial works are completed to the required quality.
You'll work closely with residents, contractors, compliance teams, property services, asset management colleagues, consultants, and other stakeholders to help maintain safe and compliant homes.
About the Role
As a Fire Safety Surveyor, you'll carry out inspections, review fire safety requirements, identify remedial works, and support the delivery of fire safety improvement programmes across Southern Housing's property portfolio.
You'll provide technical advice, monitor contractor performance, and help ensure works comply with relevant legislation, standards, specifications, and internal procedures.
What you'll be doing:
- Carrying out fire safety surveys and property inspections across residential buildings
- Identifying fire safety defects, risks, and required remedial works
- Preparing scopes of work, specifications, schedules, and technical recommendations
- Reviewing fire risk assessment actions and supporting their delivery
- Monitoring fire safety remedial works from instruction through to completion
- Inspecting completed works to ensure quality, compliance, and value for money
- Providing technical fire safety advice to colleagues, contractors, and other stakeholders
- Working closely with compliance, asset management, repairs, and property teams
- Supporting programmes relating to compartmentation, fire stopping, fire doors, alarms, and other fire safety measures
- Managing contractor performance and addressing quality or compliance concerns
- Maintaining accurate records of surveys, inspections, actions, and completed works
- Supporting the prioritisation of works based on risk and regulatory requirements
- Ensuring works are completed in accordance with relevant fire safety legislation and guidance
- Supporting resident communication where fire safety works affect occupied homes
- Managing multiple projects and workstreams across a varied property portfolio
- Identifying technical issues and escalating significant risks appropriately
- Supporting audits, compliance reviews, and assurance activity
- Contributing to continuous improvement across fire safety and building compliance processes
- Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to deliver safe and compliant outcomes
Requirements
We're looking for an experienced, technically confident, and detail-focused Fire Safety Surveyor with a strong background in residential property, compliance, and building safety.
You'll ideally have:
- Significant experience in fire safety surveying, building surveying, or building compliance
- Experience working within residential housing, social housing, or a similar property environment
- Strong knowledge of fire safety legislation and relevant industry standards
- Experience interpreting and progressing actions from Fire Risk Assessments
- Knowledge of fire doors, fire stopping, compartmentation, alarm systems, and passive fire protection
- Experience preparing specifications, schedules of work, and technical reports
- Experience inspecting contractor works and monitoring quality
- Strong understanding of building safety and compliance requirements
- Ability to identify defects and recommend appropriate remedial action
- Strong project and workload management skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working with residents in occupied properties
- Ability to manage contractors and challenge poor workmanship where necessary
- Experience working with housing associations, local authorities, or public-sector property services would be advantageous
- Relevant surveying, construction, fire safety, or building-related qualification would be highly desirable
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- Ability to provide three years of references/work history
- Ability to complete a Criminal Convictions Declaration
- Ability to sign a Confidentiality Agreement
Why Apply
- Opportunity to work with Southern Housing
- Specialist role focused on fire safety and resident protection
- Chance to work across a varied residential property portfolio
- Opportunity to influence compliance, quality, and building safety outcomes
- Varied role combining surveying, technical advice, inspections, contractor management, and compliance
- Senior day-rate opportunity at £460.30 per day
Benefits
- Weekly Pay
- Company Pension
- Ongoing Agency Support
Additional Information
Client: Southern Housing
Location: Owl Beech Lodge, South Holmes Road, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 6PN
Number of Positions: 1
Hours: 35 hours per week
Start Date: 2 November 2026
Contract End Date: 24 January 2027
Contract Duration: 12 weeks
Pay Rate: £460.30 per day Umbrella
Contract Type: Temporary
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Pay: £460.30 per day
Benefits:
- Company pension
Application question(s):
- Do you have professional experience working in fire safety surveying, building surveying, or building compliance?
- Do you have experience delivering fire safety remedial works within residential or social housing properties?
- Do you have knowledge of fire doors, compartmentation, fire stopping, alarms, and passive fire protection?
- Do you have experience reviewing Fire Risk Assessments and progressing remedial actions?
- Are you able to work 35 hours per week from 2 November 2026?
Experience:
- Fire Safety Surveying / Building Compliance: 3 years (preferred)
- Residential / Social Housing: 2 years (preferred)
- Fire Safety Remedial Works: 2 years (preferred)
- Contractor Management: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Relevant Fire Safety / Building Surveying Qualification (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Disclaimer: On applying for this vacancy, you agree that your personal details will be passed onto our client for their consideration of your suitability for the role. I acknowledge that it is my responsibility to notify iWork Recruitment Limited of any hirer who I do not want my details to be passed onto.
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