Vacancies

Building Safety Manager

Job Introduction

What you’ll do

As a Building Safety Manager, you will collaborate with teams across Notting Hill Genesis to enhance the safety of our homes and help ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

Supporting the Senior Building Safety Manager, you will act as the named Building Safety Manager for an assigned portfolio of high-rise residential buildings. You will help maintain building safety cases, support duty holder responsibilities and provide assurance that the safety management system for your allocated buildings is effective.

You will work closely with residents, internal teams, the Building Safety Regulator and other regulatory and enforcement bodies. You will also support the accountable person with building registration, Building Assessment Certificate applications and Mandatory Occurrence Reporting.

How you’ll do it

• Support work to ensure NHG meets relevant building safety and fire safety legislative requirements, alongside its health and safety policies, procedures and financial regulations.
• Support the accountable person with Building Assessment Certificate applications, building safety case maintenance, building registration and Mandatory Occurrence Reporting.
• Act as the named Building Safety Manager for assigned high-rise buildings, liaising with the Building Safety Regulator and responding to requests for information.
• Own the resident engagement strategy for the buildings in your portfolio, acting as an escalation point for building safety concerns and providing internal advice on related complaints.
• Maintain the accuracy of building safety case reports, ensuring changes, risks, opportunities and relevant interdependencies are identified and reflected.
• Conduct assurance checks in accordance with the Building Safety Assurance Schedule, including compliance checks, competency checks and on-site inspections.
• Build effective relationships with regulatory and enforcement bodies, supporting the management of regulatory judgements and maintaining an understanding of good practice.
• Ensure Golden Thread information relating to each building safety case is clearly identifiable, demonstrable and accessible, identifying and escalating information gaps where necessary.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. 

Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification. 

The ideal Building Safety Manager will understand safety and risk within complex residential buildings and be confident managing investigations and competing cases under time pressure. You will be able to interpret technical information and communicate clearly with residents, regulators and other stakeholders

Essential:

• Working understanding of building inspections, construction, fire strategies, risk assessment, Mandatory Occurrence Reporting (MOR), and building control applications.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and reports.
• Proven experience proactively investigating and managing a caseload under time pressure.
• Experience in auditing and risk assessing within the built environment.
• Demonstrable work experience with a regulatory enforcement body in relation to complex residential buildings

Qualifications:

• Level 6Diploma in Building Safety Management and CIOB membership
  
  Open to consider candidates with the following qualifications willing to work towards the CIOB: 
  • NEBOSH Fire or membership of Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE) or a similar fire safety body
    
  • HND in construction
    
  • Level 4 or above FRA qualification
    
  • Membership of Institute of Structural Engineers
    
  • Membership of Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE)

What’s in it for you?

Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.   

Benefits include:  

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)  
• Generous pension scheme  
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.  
• Health cash plan  
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.  
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan  
• Cycle to work scheme.  
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and we employ around 1,800 employees. 

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/   

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. 

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/  

Selection Process

Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 18th October

Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment  

Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview  

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.  

NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.