About the role
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 East & West Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. The role includes occasional travel, with overnight stays on the Isle of Wight every 2 - 3 months and monthly visits to our Farringdon office for team meetings. You will be expected to work on-site at least 4 days per week, with the remaining time spent working from home or from an office location.
About you
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.
Desirable
- Membership of RICS, CIOB, IFE or similar professional organisation is desirable but not essential
Closing date: 20th of September 2026, Sunday, at 23:59pm
Shortlisting: from 21st of September 2026
Interviews: week commencing 28th of September 2026
Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible so it can be reviewed and considered.
Working as one team | Southern Housing
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.
