Head of Fire Safety Delivery

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design and execute the operational framework for fire installation and remedial services throughout Mears.

• Evaluate the capabilities of branches, contracts, and central operations, creating actionable plans to enhance delivery readiness.

• Discover, cultivate, and transform fire installation and remedial opportunities into actionable programs.

• Lead mobilization efforts, ensuring operational preparedness before the commencement of services.

• Establish standards for competency, accreditation, oversight, and quality assurance to ensure safe and consistent service delivery.

• Enhance workforce and supply chain capabilities to foster sustainable service growth.

• Provide leadership and supervision of operational delivery across branches, contracts, and centrally managed services.

• Integrate quality assurance procedures, evidence controls, reporting, and handover standards into operations.

• Manage financial performance, encompassing budgeting, forecasting, revenue, margin, and cost control.

• Cultivate relationships with clients, operational leaders, technical teams, and delivery partners.

• Promote continuous improvement in capability, mobilization, delivery performance, and customer satisfaction.

⛳️ Requirements

• Relevant qualifications or equivalent senior experience in fire installation, remedial works, construction, property services, or operational delivery.

• In-depth working knowledge of fire installation and remedial works, including passive fire, fire doors, fire stopping, or similar regulated activities.

• Extensive senior operational leadership experience in fire installation, remedial works, construction, property services, or related fields.

• Demonstrated ability to establish, mobilize, and expand an operational service.

• Experience with branch, regional, or multi-contract delivery models.

• Proven ability to assess organizational capabilities and create strategies to address operational deficiencies.

• Experience in translating client demand and pipeline opportunities into scoped, priced, and actionable programs.

• Strong commercial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, pricing, revenue, and margin management.

• Experience managing direct labor teams and specialized subcontractors.

• Familiarity with competency, accreditation, supervision, and assurance requirements related to regulated construction activities.

• Experience in mobilizing and delivering multi-site programs.

• Ability to develop workforce, supervisory, and supply chain capabilities.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with a history of enhancing operational, quality, and commercial performance.

• Commercially oriented and results-driven.

• Capable of establishing structure and momentum in an evolving service.

• Respected by branch teams, clients, delivery partners, and senior leaders.

• Collaborative, pragmatic, and accountable.

• Full UK driving license.

• Willingness to travel throughout the UK as necessary.

• Eligibility to work in the UK; Mears does not currently provide visa sponsorship.

• Successful completion of relevant background, identity, and security checks prior to starting.

• To drive a Mears vehicle: must be over 21 years old, have held a license for over 3 months, and have fewer than 9 penalty points.

🏝️ Benefits

• Car allowance.

• Laptop and mobile phone.

• Family-friendly policy, including enhanced maternity/paternity leave and more.

• Generous pension scheme.

• Sick pay.

• Refer a friend scheme (total reward of £1000).

• Share saver scheme.

• Eye test vouchers.

• Employee Assistance Programme (access to free counseling services).

• Wellbeing service (access to trained mental health and wellbeing advisors).

• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family at locations such as Blair Drummond Safari Park and M&Ds Theme Park, fully funded including lunch.

• Mears Rewards - A recognition platform where you can earn rewards in high street vouchers.

• Volunteering leave.

• Excellent training and development opportunities.

• 25 days of holiday entitlement plus bank holidays.