Technical Specification Manager - Height Safety

Harmony is on a mission to be the best life safety partner to work with and for. Rated an ‘Outstanding Employer’ by Best Companies in 2025, we are only getting bigger and stronger - and we’re looking for A-players to help us get there.

We are passionate about making a difference and obsessed with quality. Our goal is to build a world where every resident can sleep safely at night, knowing their home is 100% safe.

The Technical Specification Manager (Height Safety) exists to protect the technical robustness and compliance of every height safety solution Harmony Fire proposes - before it reaches a client. Sitting within the Service function and reporting to the Head of Pre-Construction Service, the role acts as the technical authority for height safety specifications, reviewing and validating fall protection, anchor, edge protection, and access system designs against the relevant standards and legislation (including the Work at Height Regulations 2005, BS 7883, BS EN 795, and BS 8437) before proposals are issued.

Working closely with sales, estimating, design, and engineering colleagues, you will ensure every specification is technically sound, deliverable, and correctly compliant - while remaining commercially workable. You will act as the checkpoint that protects Harmony Fire’s reputation as a trusted height safety partner, maintaining the technical standards library and product approvals list, supporting colleagues with technical guidance and training, and keeping the business ahead of changes in height safety legislation and best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and validate the technical robustness of every height safety specification before it is issued to a client.
• Ensure all specifications comply with the Work at Height Regulations 2005, BS 7883, BS EN 795, BS 8437, and other relevant standards and legislation.
• Act as the technical authority and escalation point for complex or non-standard height safety solutions.
• Construct technically robust solutions and specifications directly on projects where dedicated technical support is required, working alongside sales and estimating.
• Support the sales and estimating teams in developing technically sound, deliverable proposals that meet client requirements.
• Maintain and update the technical standards library, approved products list, and specification templates.
• Liaise with manufacturers and suppliers to confirm specified products remain compliant and fit for purpose.
• Review proposed design and installation methodologies to confirm they are deliverable in practice.
• Review and create CAD drawings to support technical specifications, ensuring designs are accurate and reflect the specified solution.
• Validate the proposed methodology for delivering each project in terms of health and safety, delivery approach, and commercial elements, ensuring it represents best value for the customer.
• Ensure each specification includes the right labour and sub-contract resource, suitable materials, and the correct plant and equipment to complete the job.
• Work with delivery teams post-handover to confirm projects are being executed in line with the specified technical solution, including carrying out on-site audits.
• Provide technical training and guidance to sales, estimating, and engineering colleagues on height safety standards.
• Identify and flag technical or compliance risk in proposals prior to submission, ensuring appropriate sign-off.
• Keep abreast of changes in height safety legislation, standards, and best practice, updating internal guidance accordingly.
• Support investigation of technical or compliance issues where they arise, feeding lessons learned back into the specification process.
• Work with the quality and compliance functions to ensure specifications and supporting documentation are audit-ready.
• Provide technical input into bid and tender responses where a height safety narrative is required.
• Champion a safety-first culture across every specified solution.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• An A-player mindset - high standards, extreme ownership and the drive to do things properly, the first time.
• Proven technical background in height safety systems - fall protection, anchor systems, edge protection, and access / walkway systems.
• Strong working knowledge of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, BS 7883, BS EN 795, BS 8437, and other relevant standards.
• Experience reviewing or authoring technical specifications in a height safety, fire, or life-safety environment.
• Understanding of how technical specification interacts with commercial and proposal development.
• Background working closely with sales and estimating functions.
• Experience working with CAD packages (e.g. AutoCAD) to review and interpret technical drawings and specifications.
• Confident challenging sales or commercial pressure where technical robustness or compliance is at risk.
• Strong communicator - able to translate technical detail into plain language for sales colleagues and clients.
• Full UK driving licence - national travel required.
• Relevant industry qualifications such as IRATA, PASMA, NEBOSH, CSCS, or equivalent height safety / health and safety qualifications (preferable).

Job Benefits

This is a chance to become the technical authority for height safety at one of the UK’s fastest growing fire and life safety specialists - owning the standard that every specification is measured against, working alongside sales, estimating, and engineering teams, and making a direct impact on the quality and compliance of what Harmony delivers to clients. At Harmony, we ask a lot - and we give a lot back. The hours are real, the standards are high and the work is demanding, but for those who show up, deliver and go the extra mile, the rewards follow. A-players here enjoy a competitive salary, a company vehicle or car allowance, a Personal Development Plan with ongoing training and mentoring, unlimited holiday, a bonus scheme paying up to 50% of annual salary, enhanced maternity and paternity, lunch, snacks and refreshments on us every day (fresh fruit and Takeaway Friday included), a team social budget, cycle to work, an auto-enrolment pension, two major company events a year and our Reward and Recognition scheme - including European mini-breaks for those who go above and beyond. It is a collaborative, high-energy environment focused on doing things the right way - and none of it is a perk for showing up; it’s what we share with the people pulling the business forward.

Harmony is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment regardless of age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief. We want everyone who works with us to feel valued and to make a difference.