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Pay: £19.25 per hour
Contract: Permanent
Type: Full Time
Hours: 44 hours per week
Location: West Midlands – National travel required
To lead and supervise passive fire protection and fire door installation, remediation, and upgrade works across sites nationwide. This role involves hands-on supervision of works including fire stopping, fire compartmentation, and fire door installations, ensuring full compliance with current fire safety legislation and quality standards.
The role includes 30–50% lodging across the UK.
You will act as the on-site lead, coordinating operatives and subcontractors, ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard, while maintaining accurate compliance and handover documentation.
Supervise daily site operations for passive fire protection and fire door works.
Coordinate labour, materials, and equipment for fire stopping, fire door installation, remediation, and associated works.
Ensure all works are completed in line with specifications, manufacturer guidance, and relevant fire standards.
Monitor progress against programme and escalate delays, defects, or access issues promptly.
Carry out daily and weekly site inspections, quality checks, and compliance reviews.
Enforce site H&S rules, company procedures, and fire safety requirements at all times.
Conduct toolbox talks, site inductions, and ensure RAMS are fully understood and followed.
Ensure compliance with CDM Regulations, fire safety legislation, and best practice for passive fire works.
Report near misses, incidents, and non-conformances immediately.
Maintain a safe, tidy, and compliant working environment.
Inspect works against drawings, fire strategies, specifications, and quality requirements.
Sign off completed passive fire protection and fire door installations, ensuring correct certification and records.
Capture photographic evidence, site notes, fire stopping details, and fire door installation records.
Support internal audits, client inspections, and third-party compliance checks.
Supervise and manage subcontractors delivering fire stopping and fire door works.
Ensure subcontractors work in line with company standards and fire compliance requirements.
Liaise professionally with clients, site teams, and stakeholders.
Attend site meetings and provide progress and compliance updates.
Resolve on-site technical, quality, or access issues promptly.
Provide guidance, support, and leadership to operatives on fire protection works.
Escalate technical, compliance, or resource issues to the Contract or Project Manager.
Previous experience supervising passive fire protection and/or fire door works.
Strong knowledge of fire stopping systems, fire compartmentation, and fire door installation principles.
Good understanding of H&S regulations, CDM, and fire safety compliance.
Ability to read and interpret drawings, fire strategies, specifications, and technical documents.
Strong communication, leadership, and coordination skills.
Organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple sites or workstreams.
IT-literate: confident using site reporting apps, email, and company systems.
Full UK Driving Licence.
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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