Fire Safety Inspector

Career graded position: £30,024 £38,220 (bar at £33,699) with further opportunities to progress to Senior Fire Safety Inspector £39,152 - £42,839)

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to make Greater Manchester a safer place?

If so there has never been a better time to join our Protection Department as a Fire Safety Inspector to help improve the safety of the built environment and keep the public safe. Our fire safety teams exist to keep the public and our Firefighters safe. We do this by identifying, investigating and reducing the risk from fires. We work with our partners to identify risks and develop solutions to improve safety through engagement, advice and enforcement.

As a Fire Safety Inspector, you'll play a pivotal role in offering guidance and assistance to businesses, ensuring that buildings comply with fire safety standards. When public safety is jeopardised, you will take decisive action to rectify the situation. You will also support our partners to make sure fire safety is considered in buildings by responding to a range of consultations.

About you

We are more interested in what you can do than what you know.

If you have excellent communication skills, the ability to think analytically, problem solve and can plan and manage a busy workload then you have the right skills. If you can evidence that you can work as part of a team and in partnership, develop relationships with partners, have a co-operative and flexible approach to work and have identified and delivered service improvements then you have the right experience to apply to be a Fire Safety Inspector.

If you don’t currently work in fire safety we will provide you with the essential training and support you need to be an effective Fire Safety Inspector. Once you have mastered the basics we will continue to provide you with access to training and continuous professional development. You can then progress to being a Senior Fire Safety Inspector by taking a lead on improving our services.

About us

This is an exciting time to join fire safety as we continue to evolve the way we deliver our services in line with the HMICFRS recommendations, find new ways of developing our staff and continue to deliver core fire safety enforcement and business support activities. We are investing in fire safety teams to ensure that we have an agile workforce capable of responding quickly and effectively to risk and that we deliver an effective regulatory function which is accessible, effective, targeted and proportionate.

We are committed to developing our Fire Safety Inspectors ensuring that everyone has the ability to carry out the core work with opportunities to become a specialist.

About the roles

As a Fire Safety Inspector your main work will be to inspect premises and provide advice and guidance to responsible persons and take enforcement action where necessary.

You will play an integral role in engaging with businesses this may be through delivering presentations, arranging events or working on guidance. You will work closely with colleagues and partners to promote fire safety in new and existing buildings.

As you develop your skills and experience you will have the opportunity to specialise in a technical role influencing building design or an enforcement role carrying out complex enforcement including criminal investigations.

These are career graded positions which mean that you will develop as a fire safety practitioner in line with the Competency Framework for Fire Safety Regulators developed by the National Fire Chiefs Council. Once you have completed your initial training and been authorised to take formal enforcement action you will progress through the pay bar at £33,699.

Progression from Fire Safety Inspector to Senior Fire Safety Inspector will require you to obtain the necessary qualifications and demonstrate your experience and competence through a formal progression framework.

About Our Protection Teams:

Our Protection Teams work to ensure compliance with fire safety laws and offer advice and support to a wide range of commercial and residential premises. We have changed our delivery model to ensure our Fire Safety Regulators can focus in key areas and now have specialised Fire Safety Teams, including a Risk Reduction Team proactively auditing from our Risk Based Inspection Programme, an Investigations and Enforcement Team who tackle non-compliance, a Technical and Consultations Team who lead on influencing the safety of the built environment and Higher Risk Team who lead on the regulation of high rise buildings, hospitals and other high risk sites.

We are committed to supporting the development of our Fire Safety Regulators and you will be able to access a range of training and development opportunities and have a personalised CPD Budget putting you in control of your personal development.

Find out more

To help you understand more about the role of a Fire Safety Inspector we will be holding online sessions where out existing Fire Safety Inspectors will explain the work of our teams and how they contribute to keeping the public safe.

To register to attend one of these sessions please email Protection-Recruitment@manchesterfire.gov.uk with the subject line ‘Fire Safety Inspector Drop In’