Lead Building Safety Manager
Lead Magna’s Building Safety: guide fire safety programs, empower a mobile team, and protect homes with clarity, collaboration and care.
Salary: £62,100
Fixed Term Contract: 18 months
Location: Home based with occasional travel
Hours: 37 hours per week
Closing Date: 6th July 2026 (Midday)
Please be aware that we are unable to provide Visa Sponsorship against this role. Applicants must already have the legal right to work and reside in the UK without the need for Employer Sponsorship.
At Magna, our vision is to create great homes together. We have ambitious plans, and are seeking creative, aspirational, and talented people to join our fast paced, adaptable, and highly collaborative environment.
What you can expect
At Magna, we’re committed to helping you grow in your career. We offer training and development opportunities, and our learning and development team will support you with this.
We provide a comprehensive benefits package to support your wellbeing, which includes a generous pension scheme, health care cash plan, wellbeing portal, employee assistance programme, access to Credit Union facilities and our Colleague Voice employee group. These resources are designed to support both your mental and physical health.
We actively support our local communities and encourage colleague involvement by offering one paid day per year for volunteering activities alongside.
You’ll also receive company sick pay and a competitive annual leave entitlement, which increases over the first five years.
What your known for
Prepared to go the extra mile, with a flexible approach to allow you to meet the needs of our customers.
Have new ideas that improve the work that Magna does.
Able to communicate effectively in a range of different circumstances.
Empower others to do their role well.
What you'll take care of
You will manage all aspects of Fire and Building Safety (excluding gas, electrical, lifts, asbestos, legionella, except where there is a cross over between teams).
Devise and manage the fire risk assessment programme, along with programmes of work flowing from risk assessments
Ensure that all actions are assessed and prioritised by risk and completed in a timely fashion
Manage a team of technical managers and administrative staff
Responsibility for cyclical maintenance programmes for all active and passive fire safety measures, including fire doors and fire alarms
To act as point of contact with the Fire and Rescue Services and key primary authority contact
Review and give input into specifications for new development sites, review fire strategies and design.
Act as a point of escalation for the Building Safety Team. Resolve any supplier disputes or conflicts in a timely and commercial way. Resolve any Customer complaints in a timely and satisfactory manner.
Assist operational delivery teams in developing and implementing suitable procedures, standards, guidance, information, checklists to ensure compliance with emerging fire and building safety legislation and guidance.
Lead in developing the awareness of building safety to ensure that it grows and is maintained through regular engagement with all stakeholders.
You’ll promote a safety culture within Magna and be the go-to person, delivering regular training where required to other front-line teams
Ensure building safety and operational performance data is accurately captured, analysed and presented. Compile detailed and concise reports on building safety issues when required.
Ensure that high risk buildings are managed in accordance with legislative requirements
Prepare building safety cases with consultancy
What you'll need to be successful
Experience managing a mobile workforce.
Member of a professional organisation i.e. Institute of Fire Engineers or Institute of Fire Safety Managers with up-to-date Continuous Professional Development records (desirable)
Level 3 award in fire risk assessment or similar
A sound knowledge of all relevant fire safety legislation including the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 .
Strong decision-making/problem-solving skills
The ability to work across teams and levels of the organisation to achieve a culture of continuous improvement and raise building safety competence across the organisation.
Qualifications
NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety (desirable)
Our full range of benefit details can be viewed on our website under each vacancy.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact: Dani Davies – Talent Acquisition Manager at: dani.davies@magna.org.uk or by mobile: 07528 974936
To apply please visit our website www.magna.org.uk, select Careers Tab / Current Vacancies / Role, or follow the link attached to this advert.
Magna reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application early.
- Department
- Building Safety, Compliance & Home Services
- Role
- Lead Building Safety Manager
- Locations
- Home-based with occasional travel
- Yearly salary
- £62,100
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- 06 July, 2026
- Closing time
- 12:00pm
Benefits and perks
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Your annual leave entitlement starts at 5 weeks plus bank holidays and will increase progressively with the duration of your service over the first five years.
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If you're unwell and not able to work due to ill health, you'll receive paid sick pay based on your length of service with us.
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You receive a Social Housing Pension Scheme defined contribution. You get to decide how much you want to contribute (between 4% and 8%) and we will match this.
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We invest in your development at #TeamMagna. Our dedicated People Talent Team can help support you with your career progression and learning to help you go further, learn new skills and gain new qualifications.
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If you need to use your own vehicle to do your job, we'll pay you 45p per mile and an extra 5p for any passengers.
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Depending on your role, we support colleagues to work flexibly, including where, when and how, to help you get your work-life balance right and for us to get the best from you.
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We're proud to support our local communities and encourage you to get involved by taking one paid day a year to volunteer.
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Depending on your length of service, we offer enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave.
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All colleagues have access to FUSE, a wellbeing portal which provides useful help and advice on a range of wellbeing topics, such as healthy eating, increasing your daily exercise, sleeping well and making healthier lifestyle choices. You can even ask questions directly to an expert.
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We have a group of dedicated colleagues who meet regularly to represent the views of all our colleagues.
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Following one year of working for us, you can apply for an interest free loan of up to £1,000 to help with house moving costs.
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We are partnered with Westcountry Savings & Loans to provide credit union facilities to colleagues and customers. You can apply to save with them or take out a loan from them.
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We provide an Employee Assistance service which offers up to 8 individual counselling sessions and support is available to our colleagues, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
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All colleagues have access to Medicash, a health cash back scheme, where you can claim money back on your day to day medical and wellbeing costs (up to annual claim limits).
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Medicash can offer discounts on entertainment, high street shops and grocery shopping.
Workplace and culture
We pride ourselves on providing an excellent working environment and great benefits. We look after those who work for us as we understand that without the commitment of our colleagues, we would not be able to provide the fantastic range of services to our customers.
Our values
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Always safe
This means the safety of our colleagues and our customers is always our main priority.
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All about customers
This is our mindset and our team approach to putting customers at the heart of all we do.
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Be kind
This is about how we treat each other and how we go about our business.
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Own it
This is about how we all take responsibility for all our actions every day.
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One team
This is how we come together as #teammagna, embracing our diversity and recognising that together we can achieve outstanding results.
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Be curious
This is about how we learn about each other, our customers and our business. Learning helps make sure we all do the right thing, how we challenge convention and look beyond existing boundaries.
About Magna Housing
We’re proud to be a community-based housing association, providing homes and services to people in the South-West. We’re here to understand our customers’ needs and create places where they feel safe, belong, and can build a future.