Head of Building Safety

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom urbanbubble Full time

As our Head of Building Safety, you will contribute to our vision of “enriching residential communities with expertise and passion, making our cities incredible places to live” by:

- Co-ordinating efforts across departments to deliver best-in-class service, support communities, and promote safe living environments.
- Ensuring the relevant portfolio meets all Building Safety Regulator requirements.
- Collaboration with clients, customers, authorities to uphold the highest safety standards and compliance..

**What will you do?**
- Lead compliance with the Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety Act 2021, and all applicable regulations, staying up to date at all times
- Develop, implement, and maintain robust safety protocols per regulatory and industry standards
- Spearhead cladding/fire remediation projects, liaising with government agencies, project teams, clients, etc.
- Produce reports demonstrating compliance status, highlighting risks, accurate mandatory occurrence and timely incident reporting
- Effectively manage compliance/safety related complaints and customer feedback
- Foster a culture of safety, quality, and excellence across the business
- Lead client interactions, addressing concerns, providing reports / updates, maintaining positive relationships
- Develop emergency response plans ensuring occupant safety during emergencies
- Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate safety into operations seamlessly
- Partner with authorities, advisors, contractors to ensure community safety and compliance
- Develop robust preventative maintenance plans with senior management
- Implement reporting procedures with early warning systems for potential non-compliance
- Provide technical building safety, fire safety, and site health & safety advisory
- Ensure adequate financial provisioning for maintenance/compliance costs
- Manage all fire, health, safety, building safety systems, risk assessments, protocols


**What are we looking for?**
- Significant comparable experience in similar field with excellent knowledge on current statutory and regulatory building safety requirements
- Strong leadership skills and an excellent, effective communicator
- Proven experience spearheading cladding/fire remediation projects on high-rise residential buildings
- Experience of Client / stakeholder management and reporting
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft office packages as well as the ability to learn new systems (training on in house systems will be provided).
- Membership of The Property Institute (or a willingness to work towards it)
- Exhibits behaviours that support the core values of the business.
- Enthusiastic and passionate about delivering high quality service.
- Professional, credible and Results driven.

**Desirable professional membership of one or more of the below**:

- Associate Membership of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
- The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
- The Institution of Fire Engineers
- The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
- The Chartered Association of Building Engineers
- The Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

The role is based in Manchester at our offices in the Northern Quarter and we offer hybrid working UK travel will be required.
- urbanbubble requires people who are professional, hard-working, innovative, passionate, who are effective in their roles and who truly engage with the customer. _We are an equal opportunity employer, and invite applicants to contact us to identify any additional support you may need during the recruitment process._

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