Head of Fire Safety Delivery
Location: Remote (UK Based), UK-wide travel as required
Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Salary: £90,000 per annum plus car allowance, laptop and phone

We are seeking an experienced operational leader with a strong commercial focus to establish, develop, mobilise and grow fire installation and remedial services across Mears.
This is a strategic delivery leadership role responsible for creating a consistent and scalable operating model, building the capability required across the Group, mobilising programmes and converting demand into safe, reliable and commercially sustainable delivery.
You will work closely with operational, commercial, technical and support teams to identify opportunities, strengthen branch and central capability, mobilise new programmes and oversee safe, commercially sustainable delivery.
This is an operational and commercial delivery role, not a fire risk assessment, fire engineering, policy or technical assurance position. Candidates should have direct experience of leading the delivery of installation or remedial works, rather than solely specifying, assuring or managing them on behalf of a client. 
The successful candidate will need strong fire safety knowledge and credibility, but the principal focus is on building and leading operational delivery capability.
The role requires strong leadership, commercial discipline and the ability to balance growth ambitions with operational readiness, quality standards and risk management.
Mears Group is one of the UK's leading providers of housing and care services, working in partnership with local authorities, housing providers and organisations across the country. We are committed to delivering excellent services, creating social value and supporting the communities we serve.
 

About the Role
As Head of Fire Safety Delivery, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across fire installation and remedial programmes, ensuring safe, compliant and commercially sustainable delivery across branches, contracts and centrally managed services.
•    Develop and implement the operating model for fire installation and remedial services across Mears
•    Assess branch, contract and central capability, building practical plans to strengthen delivery readiness
•    Identify, develop and convert fire installation and remedial opportunities into deliverable programmes
•    Lead mobilisation activities, ensuring operational readiness before delivery begins
•    Establish the competency, accreditation, supervision and quality assurance controls required to deliver fire installation and remedial works safely and consistently
•    Develop workforce and supply chain capability to support sustainable service growth
•    Provide leadership and oversight of operational delivery, ensuring quality, safety and commercial objectives are achieved
•    Embed quality assurance processes, evidence controls, reporting and handover standards across the service
•    Own financial performance including budgeting, forecasting, revenue, margin and cost control
•    Build effective relationships with clients, operational leaders, technical teams and delivery partners
•    Drive continuous improvement across capability, mobilisation, delivery performance and customer outcomes
 

Key Criteria
•    Significant senior operational leadership experience within a contractor-side fire installation, remedial works, specialist construction or property services delivery environment, with direct responsibility for operational teams and commercial performance.
•    Proven experience of establishing, mobilising or materially growing an installation, remedial or comparable operational delivery service, including workforce, supply chain and commercial controls.
•    Experience working across branch, regional or multi-contract delivery models
•    Strong commercial experience including budgeting, forecasting, pricing, revenue and margin management
•    Experience of converting client demand and pipeline opportunities into scoped, priced and deliverable programmes
•    Experience managing direct labour teams and specialist subcontractors
•    Experience of mobilising and delivering multi-site programmes
•    Experience of developing workforce, supervisory and supply chain capability
•    Experience of assessing organisational capability and developing plans to address operational gaps
•    Experience working with competency, accreditation, supervision and assurance requirements associated with fire installation, passive fire, remedial works or comparable regulated construction activity
•    Strong working knowledge of fire installation and remedial works, including passive fire, fire doors, fire stopping or comparable regulated works
•    Relevant qualification or equivalent senior experience within fire installation, remedial works, construction, property services or operational delivery
•    Strong stakeholder management skills with a track record of improving operational, quality and commercial performance
•    Commercially focused and delivery driven
•    Able to create structure and momentum in a developing service
•    Credible with branch teams, clients, delivery partners and senior leaders
•    Collaborative, pragmatic and accountable
•    Full UK driving licence
•    Willingness to travel across the UK as required
 

Benefits
•    Car allowance
•    Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more
•    Generous Pension Scheme
•    Sick Pay
•    Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)
•    Share saver scheme
•    Eye test vouchers
•    Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
•    Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
•    Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blair Drummond Safari Park, M&Ds Theme park, fully paid for including lunch
•    Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers
•    Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment
•    Excellent training and development opportunities
•    25 days holiday entitlement along with bank holidays

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.
To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21, have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.
Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.
 

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.