Building Safety & Compliance Manager

Role objective:

To help the business implement its legislative and best practice requirements in relation to health and fire safety. Contribute to a positive safety culture of continual improvement.

This role is to be based in either Manchester or Leeds.

Tasks:

• Help prepare for, implement, manage and review changes in Health & Fire Safety legislation, in particular the Building Safety Act and associated regulations
• Review and update compliance policies, procedures and workflows in light of these changes
• Work with site based teams to ensure policies are understood and implemented
• Work with our IT infrastructure to ensure site teams can easily complete and evidence compliance checks
• Implement, monitor and review policies and procedures relating to contractor H&S conduct on site, including Permit to Work schemes
• Help performance manage life safety contracts and implementation of new technologies to continually improve safety and accountability
• Help provide a technical focal point for local authorities and emergency services
• Help provide structure and advice to neighbourhood and resident events, from a compliance perspective
• Assist in disaster and business continuity planning

Sites:

• Oversee instruction of relevant risk assessments for each asset and ensure site staff complete actions within required time
• Oversee instruction and completion of statutory PPM for assigned assets and ensure site staff are undertake remedial works for failed service reports.
• Audit, monitor performance and report on building performance data and compliance matters for monthly review meetings
• Conduct periodic site inspections to ensure buildings remain compliant in terms of health and safety requirements and are in line with reporting from site staff
• Help produce safe systems of work for testing life safety and other compliance related items
• Work with external consultants to identify and manage more complex fire safety issues e.g external wall, compartmentation, fire door issues, and to progress and oversee remedial works.
• Attend H&S related site meetings (e.g meeting with fire authority or neighbouring responsible persons)
• Oversee resident communications on Health and Fire Safety through the leasing and tenancy lifetime
• Identify suitable health and safety related consultants, risk assessors, surveyors, etc to provide such services to the
• Work with operational staff to implement resident engagement strategies that will provide opportunities for residents to have a greater voice on safety matters
• Ensure all sites provide vital safety information to residents and the golden thread of information is adequately

Mobilisation:

• Identify and set up statutory PPM and compliance related tasks on Active Build and Riskwise
• Identify and assist with setting up any health and safety installations procedures for site
• Attend new site familiarisation training in relation to statutory building services functions and ensure information is recorded and site staff adequately trained
• Help in ensuring all compliance related documentation is provided at handover
• Help provide training and resources to staff located in new buildings to ensure they operate to company standards
• Oversee any defects of site based assets related to life safety

Knowledge, skills and experience:

Essential

• Actively embrace and work within the Company
• Able to show an understanding of and commitment to improving health and safety standards in
• Experience in managing H&S within residential buildings especially fire safety matters relating to external walls, compartmentation, and fire doors.
• Experience in effective management of people and
• NEBOSH or similar/equivalent Health & safety
• Able to show an understanding of and commitment to property services and managing Client and Customer relationships.
• Able to communicate effectively and clearly in writing and verbally, including drafting correspondence and documents.
• Strong attention to
• Ability to work in a varied and demanding role with appropriate
• Ability to work to strict deadlines and be organised and
• Demonstrable experience and ability to use ICT packages e. Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Self-motivated, with high energy and
• Pragmatic, creative approach to problem solving, with emphasis on fast and practical
• Demonstrate experience in making positive H&S changes within a workplace
• Demonstrable experience of taking responsibility for own actions and development opportunities, maintaining high levels of
• Commitment to equality, diversity, and mutual respect; accepting differences and treating everyone
• Evidence of continual professional development

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of using
• MBIFM, MRICS or equivalent qualified