Compliance Manager (Fire Safety and Lifts)

Housing Diversity Network; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused housing organization in Stockport is seeking a Compliance Manager (Fire Safety and Lifts). This role involves ensuring safety compliance in housing, leading fire safety initiatives, and managing relationships with contractors. Ideal candidates will have strong fire safety knowledge and the ability to communicate effectively. The organization offers a hybrid work environment and values diversity within teams. Closing date for applications is 22nd February 2026.

Benefits

Hybrid working arrangements

Collaborative working spaces

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing fire safety compliance in a regulatory environment.
• Strong contract management skills with effective relationship building.
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead fire safety and lift safety compliance activities.
• Oversee Fire Risk Assessment programme.
• Act as subject matter expert for fire safety legislation.

Skills

Contract management

Fire safety knowledge

Organisational skills

Communication skills

People management

Job description

Overview

Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week)

Are you passionate about keeping residents safe in their homes? Do you have a strong understanding of fire and lift safety and a proactive approach to managing risk? If so, we’d love you to join us at Stockport Homes Group.

As our Compliance Manager (Fire Safety and Lifts), you will play a key role in ensuring our homes and buildings remain safe, compliant, and well managed. You will provide leadership, technical expertise, and assurance across fire safety and lift safety, helping to protect residents and meet our statutory obligations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the management of the organisation’s fire safety and lift safety compliance activities, ensuring statutory inspections, servicing, testing, and remedial works are completed promptly, efficiently, and to the required standards.
• Oversee the Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) programme, ensuring assessments are current, suitable and sufficient, and that all FRA actions are risk-assessed, prioritised, tracked, and completed within agreed timescales.
• Act as the subject matter expert for fire safety legislation and technical standards, including the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, relevant British Standards, ensuring systems, processes, and practices reflect current legal obligations.
• Lead the procurement, contract management, and performance monitoring of contractors and consultants delivering fire safety and lift services, ensuring contracts and service level agreements clearly reflect legislative, safety, quality, and performance requirements.
• Provide clear compliance reporting and assurance to senior managers and stakeholders, highlighting risks, performance, and improvement actions.

Ideal candidate

• Strong contract management skills with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal teams, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Proven experience managing fire safety compliance in housing, property, or a similarly regulated environment.
• A strong understanding of fire safety legislation, Fire Risk Assessments, and remedial action management.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation, skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a risk-based environment.
• Strong communication, ICT, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain technical matters clearly to a range of audiences.
• People management experience, with the ability to support, motivate, and develop staff to deliver high-quality compliance services.

Other information

Our modern office is a bright, positive working environment with great collaborative working spaces. We value hybrid working arrangements, and you will have the opportunity to shape and agree how you work between office and home to suit both your own and the business needs.

The SHG “Be You” approach sums up our belief that everyone has the right to be who they are, and to be that person at work, in line with SHG’s Values. We’re always looking to improve diversity within our teams to enhance this culture and to be truly representative of the communities we work in.

This role will be on Stockport Homes Limited terms and conditions.

The successful applicant's appointment will be subject to satisfactory basic clearance by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We understand that if you don't meet every requirement, you may be hesitant to apply but we still want to hear from you and encourage you to submit an application detailing your experiences, achievements, and the value you can bring to our team.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact the People & OD Team on [e-mail].

Please note that we do not accept applications through third-party websites. To ensure your application is reviewed, please apply directly through our careers page.

We encourage you to apply early! We may close the vacancy sooner if we find the right candidate.

Closing date: 22nd February 2026

Interview date: 26th February 2026

About Us

Welcome to Stockport Homes Group (SHG), an umbrella organisation for four, socially responsible interdependent companies within the housing sector. We are Stockport's largest landlord, managing over 12,000 properties on behalf of Stockport Council and Private Landlords, as well as our own growing portfolio of new build homes.

As builders, landlords, architects and developers we believe in collective responsibility for more affordable housing. All our profit is reinvested within the group to maximise opportunities for those who most need our help.

Companies within SHG:

• Stockport Homes - Stockport Homes was formed in 2005, to manage housing stock across Stockport on behalf of Stockport Council. We operate as an ALMO and are committed to providing quality homes and listening to our customers to continually improve our services.
• Three Sixty - Construction, maintenance and facilities management services across Stockport, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. We Gift Aid our profits to SKylight to support the work they do.
• Skylight - A Charitable Community Benefit Society supporting employment, poverty alleviation, and digital skills. We contribute to Stockport’s community and independence.
• Viaduct Housing Partnership - A development partnership focusing on building more affordable homes in Stockport.

SHG is proud to be an award-winning organisation dedicated to transforming lives and communities. We are looking for the best people to join the Group on this exciting journey.

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