Building Safety Surveyor
Location: Bristol area. Regional Travel Required – South West England
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £49,535 inc car allowance
Role Overview
Are you passionate about keeping residents safe and ensuring homes meet the highest building safety standards? As a Building Safety Surveyor, you'll play a key role in delivering fire safety and compliance programmes across Anchor's portfolio. You'll lead the delivery of remedial works arising from Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs), fire door inspections and compartmentation surveys, while also managing planned investment projects involving active fire protection systems.
Working closely with contractors, residents and internal teams, you'll ensure projects are delivered safely, compliantly, on time and within budget, helping us create safer homes and communities for our residents.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the delivery of passive fire protection programmes, including fire door remediation, fire door replacements and fire stopping works.
- Oversee remedial actions arising from Fire Risk Assessments, compartmentation surveys and fire door inspections.
- Lead planned investment programmes for active fire safety systems, including fire alarms, emergency lighting and Automatic Opening Vent (AOV) systems.
- Monitor contractor performance, ensuring quality, compliance, cost control and programme delivery.
- Carry out site inspections, quality audits and compliance checks.
- Maintain accurate project, compliance and certification records.
- Manage project budgets, forecasts and expenditure to deliver value for money.
- Act as a key point of contact for residents affected by planned fire safety works.
- Investigate and resolve resident queries and complaints, ensuring excellent customer service.
- Identify and escalate building safety risks and compliance concerns where required.
- Support continuous improvement through learning from audits, inspections and assurance activities.
Requirements
- Experience managing contractors and construction projects.
- Strong knowledge of passive fire protection systems, including fire doors, compartmentation and fire stopping.
- Working knowledge of fire safety legislation, regulatory requirements and health & safety legislation.
- Experience undertaking technical inspections and quality assurance activities.
- Knowledge of Leasehold and section 20 process.
- HNC/HND, Degree or equivalent qualification in Building Surveying, Construction, Property, Building Safety or a related discipline.
- Fire Door Inspection Diploma.
- IFI Fire Stopping Diploma.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
What You'll Bring
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong organisational and project management abilities.
- A proactive and solutions-focused approach.
- High attention to detail and commitment to compliance.
- A customer-first mindset with a focus on resident safety and wellbeing.
- The confidence to challenge unsafe practices and drive continuous improvement.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the Building Safety Act and social housing compliance requirements.
- Membership of a professional body such as RICS, CIOB, CABE or IFE.
- Qualification such as CIOB Level 6 in Fire and Building Safety, IOSH, NEBOSH, Project Management.
Apply
If you're an experienced Building Safety Surveyor, Fire Safety Surveyor or Building Compliance Professional looking to make a meaningful difference to resident safety while helping shape and deliver critical fire safety programmes, we'd love to hear from you.
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, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.
