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Senior Fire Safety Lead/Specialist

Virginia Permanent USD80K - USD100K / Year

Are you an experienced Fire Safety professional looking to move into a strategic leadership role? A leading Facilities Management organisation is seeking a Senior Fire Safety Lead to take ownership of fire compliance, technical governance and life safety strategy across a large, complex industrial campus in Chester, VA.
This is a unique opportunity to influence the long-term fire safety strategy on a high-profile account, working with senior stakeholders, engineering teams and specialist contractors to ensure the highest standards of compliance, performance and operational excellence.
The Role As the Senior Fire Safety Lead, you will:
  • Lead the technical direction for all fire and life safety systems across the site, ensuring a consistent and compliant approach.
  • Own the site's fire compliance strategy, maintaining accurate asset data, resolving compliance gaps and driving planned preventative maintenance.
  • Act as the technical authority for all fire-related works, reviewing contractor proposals, quotations and completed works to ensure quality and value.
  • Manage specialist subcontractors, overseeing service visits, inspections, testing and remedial works while ensuring adherence to site safety procedures.
  • Investigate fire system deficiencies, ensuring corrective actions are completed, documented and closed out.
  • Identify opportunities to improve service delivery, reduce reliance on subcontractors and develop business cases for bringing services in-house where appropriate.
  • Support the commissioning, integrated systems testing and operational readiness of fire and life safety systems across a modern campus environment.
  • Review system designs, identify operational risks and provide technical recommendations to improve resilience and compliance.
  • Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs) and Maintenance Operating Procedures (MOPs) for fire systems.
  • Mentor, coach and upskill engineering teams to increase self-delivery capability and technical competence.
About You To be successful as the Senior Fire Safety Lead, you'll have:
  • A strong technical background within fire protection, fire detection, life safety or fire & security systems.
  • Previous experience in a senior technical, service management, project management or engineering leadership position.
  • Excellent knowledge of fire compliance, planned maintenance and statutory inspection requirements.
  • Experience managing specialist subcontractors, reviewing technical proposals and maintaining commercial oversight.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to implement structured compliance processes.
  • Experience using CMMS or CAFM systems (Planon experience would be advantageous).
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work alongside clients, contractors and senior leadership teams.
  • A recognised qualification in a fire-related discipline or another relevant engineering field.
What's in it for you? This is an opportunity to join a globally recognised Facilities Management business on one of its most technically advanced contracts.
You'll benefit from:
  • A strategic leadership position with real influence over fire safety and compliance.
  • The opportunity to work on a newly developed, state-of-the-art industrial campus.
  • Long-term career development within a global FM organisation.
  • Support from an experienced engineering leadership team.
  • The chance to shape operational standards and improve fire safety performance across a flagship account.
Apply Now If you're an experienced Fire Safety Manager, Fire Compliance Manager, Fire Systems Manager, Fire Protection Specialist, Fire & Life Safety Manager or Senior Fire Engineer looking for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.
Click Apply Now to submit your CV to Ben Grant.

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