Building Safety Surveyor

Building Safety Surveyor

Location:         Bedfordshire & Surrounding area / Regional Travel Required
Job Type:        Full Time | Permanent
Hours:             37.5 hours per week
Salary:             £49,535 inc car allowance

Role Overview

Are you passionate about keeping residents safe and ensuring homes meet the highest building safety standards? As a Building Safety Surveyor, you'll play a key role in delivering fire safety and compliance programmes across Anchor's portfolio. You'll lead the delivery of remedial works arising from Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs), fire door inspections and compartmentation surveys, while also managing planned investment projects involving active fire protection systems.

Working closely with contractors, residents and internal teams, you'll ensure projects are delivered safely, compliantly, on time and within budget, helping us create safer homes and communities for our residents.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of passive fire protection programmes, including fire door remediation, fire door replacements and fire stopping works.
• Oversee remedial actions arising from Fire Risk Assessments, compartmentation surveys and fire door inspections.
• Lead planned investment programmes for active fire safety systems, including fire alarms, emergency lighting and Automatic Opening Vent (AOV) systems.
• Monitor contractor performance, ensuring quality, compliance, cost control and programme delivery.
• Carry out site inspections, quality audits and compliance checks.
• Maintain accurate project, compliance and certification records.
• Support Building Safety Case information and fire safety assurance activities.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts and expenditure to deliver value for money.
• Act as a key point of contact for residents affected by planned fire safety works.
• Investigate and resolve resident queries and complaints, ensuring excellent customer service.
• Identify and escalate building safety risks and compliance concerns where required.
• Support continuous improvement through learning from audits, inspections and assurance activities.

Requirements

• Experience delivering fire safety remedial programmes and compliance-related projects.
• Experience managing contractors and construction projects.
• Strong knowledge of passive fire protection systems, including fire doors, compartmentation and fire stopping.
• Understanding of active fire protection systems, including fire alarms, emergency lighting and smoke control systems.
• Working knowledge of fire safety legislation, regulatory requirements and health & safety legislation.
• Experience undertaking technical inspections and quality assurance activities.
• Experience managing project budgets and delivery programmes.
• HNC/HND, Degree or equivalent qualification in Building Surveying, Construction, Property, Building Safety or a related discipline.
• Fire Door Inspection Diploma.
• IFI Fire Stopping Diploma.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

What You'll Bring

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong organisational and project management abilities.
• A proactive and solutions-focused approach.
• High attention to detail and commitment to compliance.
• A customer-first mindset with a focus on resident safety and wellbeing.
• The confidence to challenge unsafe practices and drive continuous improvement.

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this position. Therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate their legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Why Join Anchor?

At Anchor, we're united by a shared purpose: helping people create a home where they love living in later life. As England's largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people, every pound we make or save is reinvested into our residents, services, and colleagues.

Our values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest shape everything we do. They guide how we work together, support our residents and customers, and create an environment where everyone can thrive.

We're committed to helping our colleagues succeed both professionally and personally. Through our dedicated Being Well programme, you'll have access to a wide range of wellbeing, financial and lifestyle benefits designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.

What you can expect from us

• Health and wellbeing support, including free eye tests and flu jabs, access to a digital gym, virtual physiotherapy, a clinical advice line, and digital GP services, giving you practical support for your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
• Generous pension scheme, where you contribute between 4% and 8% and Anchor matches or exceeds your contribution, with employer contributions of up to 10%, plus a pension transfer service, retirement planning support and free life cover.
• The opportunity to buy or sell up to one week of annual leave each year, giving you greater flexibility to balance work and personal commitments.
• A free Blue Light Card giving you access to Shopping, travel, technology and lifestyle discounts.
• Electric car scheme, offering eligible colleagues access to a brand-new electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle through salary sacrifice, with insurance, servicing, maintenance and breakdown cover included. Subject to eligibility criteria.
• Ongoing learning and development, Leadership Pathways resources and opportunities to progress your career.

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an inclusion group for our residents, as well as colleague networks for disability, LGBTQ+, race and ethnicity, and unpaid carers. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, LGBTQ+ Housing Pledge Pioneers and members of the Age Friendly Employer Pledge.