Fire Door Contracts Manager

Job Description:

We are partnering with a leading specialist in passive fire protection to recruit an experienced Fire Door Contracts Manager to oversee and drive their fire door contracts across the Midlands. This is a high-profile, hands-on leadership role, critical to delivering quality, compliance, and profitability across regional projects along the M1 corridor with projects in Nottingham and Northampton.   

You will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of fire door installation, maintenance, remediation and inspection contracts — ensuring they are executed safely, on time, to budget, and in full compliance with regulatory standards. You will be the key interface between clients, site teams, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of regional fire door contracts (installation, refurbishment, maintenance and inspection) from mobilisation through to completion

• Planning, scheduling and resourcing of site teams, subcontractors, materials, and logistics across multiple simultaneous projects

• Ensure all works comply with relevant fire door standards, building regulations, third-party accreditation requirements and client specifications

• Conduct site visits, audits and quality inspections to maintain workmanship standards

• Act as main technical authority for fire door issues on site — providing guidance, resolving defects and escalations

• Liaise closely with clients, project engineers, architects, consultants and regulatory bodies

• Cost control and financial reporting

• Health & safety oversight, ensuring safe systems of work, risk assessments and method statements

• Mentor, develop and lead site teams and subcontractors, promoting high standards and continuous improvement

• Support tendering and bid activities, providing technical input, resource planning and risk assessments

About You

• Substantial experience (5+ years) in fire door / passive fire protection contracts management roles

• Proven track record in delivering regional contracts, ideally across north England

• Strong knowledge of fire door standards, certification schemes and building regulations

• Excellent technical understanding of fire door systems, installation and inspection processes

• Strong leadership, communication and client-management skills

• Financially astute with experience in cost control, forecasting and contract commercial management

• Confident in site oversight, quality control and health & safety compliance

• Able to travel regularly across the North of England (occasional overnight stays)

• Full UK driving licence