Faculty Emergency & Resilience Manager (Science and Engineering)

Job reference: SAE-025689
Salary: Grade 7 £45,585 to £56,021 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Permanent
Division/Team: FSE Planning, Compliance & Special Projects
Hours Per Week: 1 FTE
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/07/2024
Contract Duration: Permanent
School/Directorate: Faculty Office - Science and Engineering

The Role

Become a key player in the newly constructed Engineering Buildings A and B, part of the Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD). Along with the James Chadwick and York Street Buildings, MECD forms a premier hub of engineering and materials expertise in the UK.

You’ll be responsible for implementing bespoke emergency response arrangements, maintaining safety standards, and ensuring compliance with national legislation and University requirements across 21 buildings. Your role will also involve developing and championing continuity and resilience plans, ensuring practical and sustainable solutions are available and tested.

We're seeking an individual who can navigate both operational and strategic levels, managing the fire alarm system for MECD while influencing Faculty decision-makers. You’ll support the development of comprehensive plans and ensure they’re effectively communicated to a wide range of stakeholders.

The Ideal Candidate

You’ll lead the day-to-day management of the MECD emergency organization, ensuring compliant emergency and incident response measures across all FSE buildings. You’ll also support the development and implementation of continuity and resilience measures.

Our ideal candidate will have a relevant qualification in fire, emergency, incident management, business continuity, or risk. You will have specialist knowledge of fire safety and emergency response regulations, with practical experience in fire detection and alarm systems. You can work accurately under pressure, communicate complex information clearly, and build effective relationships with various stakeholders. You will have significant experience managing emergencies in large buildings, drafting emergency plans, and developing business continuity and resilience plans. Ideally, you will also have experience with multi-agency response arrangements, JESIP, and working within the Higher Education sector or a similar environment.

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to be at the cutting edge of safety management within a world-class engineering campus. You’ll work in an innovative environment with the chance to make a significant impact on the safety and resilience of our community.

If you’re ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role where your expertise will be valued, apply now and join our dedicated team at the Faculty of Science and Engineering!

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Contact:  Sylvester Boon

Email: sylvester.boon@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Further particulars including job description and person specification are available on the University of Manchester website - click on the 'Apply' button above to find out more.

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