Fire Risk Assessment Manager - Fixed Term 12 months

Job reference number 338838

Fire Risk Assessment Manager - Fixed Term 12 months

Competitive salary plus £4,800 car allowance, full family health care, potential 18% bonus & 27.5 days holiday (plus bank holidays)   

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Full time 41 Hours 

Fixed Term

National

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At Royal Mail, we have been serving communities for over 500 years, playing a key role in shaping and evolving the postal delivery market on a global scale. Our commitment to improvement and innovation continues, and that’s where you come in.

To lead the Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) programme, managing all desktop reviews and on-site surveys, ensuring findings are recorded, prioritised, and progressed to completion. The role owns the end-to-end management of all fire safety remedial actions and liaises with Royal Mail Group stakeholders to ensure alignment of standards, processes, and protocols.

About the Role 

Lead and manage the national Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) programme, ensuring assessments, remedial actions, compliance reporting, and fire safety standards are effectively delivered across the estate, while providing expert advice, risk assurance, and governance to support legal compliance and continuous improvement.

This is a national role and can be based from any UK location; however, the successful candidate must be fully mobile and willing to travel regularly to Royal Mail sites, major operational hubs, supplier locations, and other business locations across the UK as required. The role is primarily site-based, requiring close collaboration with operational and engineering teams, although there may be opportunities for occasional remote working where business needs permit. 

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. 

Experience
•    Experience operating within a compliance environment with responsibility for risk-based assessment, action tracking, and governance.•    Experience planning and coordinating work programmes across multiple sites, managing priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines.
•    Demonstrable experience engaging site teams to gather information, validate findings, and deliver practical, proportionate risk controls.
•    Experience producing management information (MI) and presenting updates to stakeholders, including risk themes, overdue actions, and programme performance.
•    Experience improving processes and implementing consistent ways of working, including aligning templates, protocols, and reporting with Royal Mail Group requirements.

Qualifications

•  Relevant qualification in fire safety / fire risk assessment (or demonstrable equivalent experience).

•  Commitment to maintaining competency through CPD and keeping up to date with fire safety legislation, standards, and guidance.

•  Competent using IT systems to manage FRA records, action trackers, and evidence (e.g., compliance databases and reporting tools).

•  Membership of (or working towards membership of) a relevant professional body (e.g., IFE, IFSM, IOSH).

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

About Us

At Royal Mail we connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a ‘one-price-goes-anywhere’, universal postal service to more than 30 million addresses. As one of the UK’s leading companies, we are focused on being recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

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