Fire Safety Surveyor

Job description

We're excited to offer an excellent opportunity to join our dedicated Fire Safety team as a Fire Safety Surveyor. In this role, you will take the lead in overseeing fire risk assessment activities across Southern Housing's portfolio.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

- Ensuring that all designated fire risk assessment works are actioned and correctly undertaken within the prescribed timescales.

- Ensuring that all Southern Housing's properties owned and managed properties are maintained to the highest possible standards and that all statutory and regulatory requirements are met.

- Analyse and assess building fire safety related defects and deficiencies, provide remedial proposals and prepare specifications for remedial works
- Carry out post inspection/quality control checks on works and pursue any necessary redress to achieve satisfactory completion
- Carry out H&S spot checks and monitor contractors to ensure they are working safely and complying with all relevant Health & Safety risk assessments and method statements.
- Ensuring that staff, residents, leaseholders, managing agencies and property owners are provided with a high standard of service.

You will conduct inspections across London and monthly visits to our Farringdon office for team meetings. On occasion, you may also be required to conduct inspections in Kent or Midlands. You will be expected to work on-site at least three days per week, with the remaining time spent working from home or from an office location.

You'll bring:

- Experience as a fire/building surveyor in a maintenance environment carrying out pre and post inspections
- Fire Qualification NEBOSH fire or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of the Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order 2005.
- Experience of working with contractors using SOR and non-SOR contracts.
- The ability to produce detailed specifications of work.
- Knowledge of relevant and current, codes of practice, building regulations, health and safety legislation, standards and materials.
- An in depth knowledge of construction, design and fire related defects and how to correct them.
- Knowledge of contract management.
- A Full UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle.

- Membership of RICS, CIOB, IFE or similar professional organisation is desirable but not essential

Closing date : 27th of September 2026, Sunday, at 23:59pm

Shortlisting : from 28th of September 2026

Interviews : beginning of October 2026





About Us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people's lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

Internal mobility

In line with our Recruitment Policy, colleagues are able to apply for internal roles once they've passed their probation. Interviews will only be arranged once this has been confirmed.

Colleagues who have recently started a new internal role won't be able to apply for another internal move for at least 12 months. Please refer to the Recruitment Policy for more detail.