Are you an experienced fire safety professional looking for a role where you can really make a difference? We're looking for a Resort Fire Safety Manager to lead fire safety across our Minehead resort — protecting our guests, team, and buildings, and helping shape how we manage fire risk for the future.
The Resort Fire Safety Manager role will aim to provide leadership, l assurance, and subject matter expertise to ensure effective fire safety management across the resort.
The role will be accountable for maintaining compliance with statutory requirements, recognised standards, and internal policies, while supporting safe operations, and organisational risk management objectives.
- Provide authoritative fire safety advice and assurance to Resort Based Senior Leaders and Heads of Department, including leadership in the resolution of fire-related issues and incidents.
- Ensure compliance with UK fire safety legislation, British Standards, Building Regulations, and applicable codes of practice across resort operations.
- Act as the principal point of contact with the Fire & Rescue Service, enforcing authorities, insurers, and other external stakeholders on fire safety matters.
Risk Assessment & Assurance
- Undertake, review, and monitor fire risk assessments across a diverse range of building types, ensuring risks are appropriately managed, documented, and actioned.
- Undertake site-specific fire risk assessments support licensing requirements for caravan parks (where applicable)
- Establish and maintain a structured programme of inspections, audits, and assurance activities, providing confidence to senior management.
Systems, Assets & Performance Oversight
Provide strategic oversight of fire safety systems and equipment, ensuring they remain operational, compliant, and effectively maintained.
- Delivery of compliance with statutory & regulatory fire checks.
- Lead the monitoring, analysis, and mitigation of fire alarm performance, including unwanted fire alarm activations and system reliability trends.
- Review and report on the performance, competence, and compliance of external contractors delivering fire safety systems and services.
Policy, Training & Competence
- Contribute to the development, implementation, and continuous review of company fire safety policies, procedures, and standards.
- Provide management and assurance over fire safety training arrangements and drills, ensuring relevant personnel are competent and appropriately trained.
- Promote a positive fire safety culture and consistent application of best practice across all resort teams.
Capital Projects & Project Oversight
- Provide fire safety leadership for capital projects on resort, including new builds, refurbishments, and alterations, ensuring fire safety principles are embedded from design through to delivery.
- Advise on fire safety implications relating to building structure, fabric, services, and maintenance activities.
Reporting, Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- Prepare and present periodic and annual fire safety performance reports, identifying key risks, trends, and strategic improvement opportunities for leadership teams.
- Lead the identification, investigation, and resolution of fire safety non-compliances, ensuring effective escalation, corrective action, and learning.
- Support the development of team through mentoring and guidance.
Maintain professional competence through ongoing awareness of emerging legislation, guidance, and technology.
KPI
- Fire Safety Compliance
- Fire Evacuation Plans and Execution
- Continuous review of Resort fire safety policies, procedures, and standards.
- Reduced incidents
- Proactive Fire Safety Management
About You
- Appropriate qualification (or equivalent) in Fire Safety.
- Professional membership of a recognised fire safety body (e.g. Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE) or Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM), at an appropriate grade) is desirable but not essential.
- Demonstrable experience in fire safety management, preferably within the leisure, tourism, or hospitality sector but not essential.
- Strong working knowledge of UK fire safety legislation, British Standards, Building Regulations, and relevant Codes of Practice.
- Understanding of project delivery, budgetary impact / constraints, and the commercial impact of fire safety decisions.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to operate confidently at senior level.
- Competent IT and communication skills for report writing and communicating with all tiers of employment and external bodies.
- A team player, credible, proactive, and confident professional with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Highly organised with the ability to prioritise and manage risk.
- Balanced decision-maker, capable of aligning compliance requirements with operational and commercial realities.
- Committed to continuous improvement and professional best practice.
We would love to hear from anyone operating in a Fire Safety Management role, ideally from leisure, hospitality or tourism — though the industry isn't essential. Membership of a recognised fire safety body, such as the Institution of Fire Engineers or the Institute of Fire Safety Managers, is also helpful but not essential.
You should have excellent working knowledge of UK Fire Safety Law, British Standards, Building Regulations and relevant codes of practice.
Confidence working with senior leaders, and strong communication skills at every level, are essential — as well as a genuine desire to get stuck in and make a difference in an extremely agile business.
Competent IT and communication skills, able to write reports and communicate confidently with people at every level, inside and outside the company.
Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise and manage risk.
A balanced decision-maker, able to align compliance requirements with operational and commercial realities.
Did you know Billy Butlin was the first person to introduce dodgems to the UK? That's right, 'fun' is in our DNA, and we've been delighting guests for almost 90 years. Ask any of our team, past and present, and one of the best things they'll say about working at Butlin's is our culture.
As The Home of Entertainment, we pull out all the stops to provide our guests with an 'Altogether More Entertaining and Fun Break', from all-action family holidays to adult-only Big Weekenders, brought to life through our three mighty values. So, if you're looking for a role where you can Create Smiles, where you aren't afraid to Get Stuck In and where the team genuinely Care For Each Other, we think you'll fit right in!
