Building Safety and Compliance Manager

Your new company
I am working with a leading affordable housing association that currently provides more than 13,000 affordable homes in local authority areas across Kent, Surrey and Sussex. You will lead a team, providing compliance and building safety services to ensure key operational targets are met or exceeded.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that these contracts deliver value for money, customer excellence in service delivery and strong technical performance.
• Be responsible for the performance of contracts under your management to ensure that they are delivered in alignment with business and commercial needs.
• Ensure spend on these contracts aligns with budget and supports the budget-setting and forecasting processes.
• Ensuring and assessing that those employed to maintain and manage the building have the necessary skills, knowledge and experience.
• Maintaining and developing information management systems to facilitate safe management of the building, working towards producing a comprehensive 'golden thread' of information on all properties.
• Developing and managing the safety cases for buildings over 18 metres so that risks are proactively identified, and mitigating measures put in place and maintained to ensure compliance with the Building Safety Regulator's requirements throughout.
• Lead and actively contribute to 'whole building safety' matters in all meetings internally and externally and promote collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Assist with delivering cultural change from technical compliance to resident safety, actively promoting this through a range of activities, and embedding in day-to-day tasks and language.
• Assist in the development of operating plans, ensuring continuous improvement to services, making sure that there are effective processes to learn lessons from complaints and safety incidents.
• Be responsible for the policies and procedures relating to building safety and compliance lead best practice in departmental procurement policy, ensuring it is reviewed and monitored to ensure compliance.
• Design and produce performance reports to provide clear and transparent data to internal stakeholders with relevant and comprehensive commentary.
• Ensure that building safety and compliance services are supported by strong data accuracy, ensuring that innovation in data (collection, management, and storage) drives improvement across all workstreams.
• Ensure that residents are adequately informed, consulted with and able to positively contribute and influence the operation and development of building safety.
• Keep up to date with changes in legislation, sector practice and ensure this is cascaded appropriately and reflected in policy and/or procedural changes.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues at Peabody to ensure alignment on all building safety and compliance matters. Promote the sharing of information and best practice.
• Provide advice to the Executive Management Team (EMT) on areas of responsibility by writing and presenting clear and concise reports that challenge opinions, influence decision-making and initiate change.
• Identify and ensure that necessary and appropriate building remediation is undertaken to ensure that the conditions set out in the building registration certificate are met.

What you'll need to succeed

• Educated to degree level
• Comprehensive knowledge of relevant statutory and regulatory requirements
• Technical expertise in respect of building safety
• Excellent communication skills, with demonstrable evidence of providing timely, concise, audience-appropriate information
• Resident focussed
• Strong IT skills
• A collaborative approach
• Good decision-making skills
• Good planning and prioritisation skills
• Confidence to communicate with senior managers and professionals; to convey information clearly and concisely in a pragmatic and assertive manner
  
  

What you'll get in return
In return, you will receive a wide range of company benefits, such as a generous holiday allowance, in-house company perks (discounts) and many more.

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