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Building Safety Manager

British Land
locationLondon, UK
PublishedPublished: Published today
Full Time
Job Title: Building Safety Manager
Department: Property Management

LOCATION: MARBLE ARCH, LONDON (Hybrid - 4 days in office)

REPORTING TO: Senior Health & Safety Manager

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Permanent

PLACES, PEOPLE, PREFER

Our purpose is to create and manage outstanding places which deliver positive outcomes for all our stakeholders on a long term, sustainable basis.

We are a FTSE listed business with a strong balance sheet and £13bn of assets under management. But with just 600 employees you're given the ability to make a big impact and elevate your career quickly.

Our diverse, passionate team of experts works on some of the most ambitious, innovative and sustainable projects in the country - from our high-quality campuses across central London, to some of the top retail schemes in the UK - providing a rewarding career journey where you can shape how you grow.

We believe in shared success and enabling people to be themselves. If you want to feel listened to and understood in an environment where your opinions count and bright ideas are encouraged, you've come to the right place!

In our recent engagement survey 93% of our employees stated they were proud to work for British Land!

THE ROLE

To guide, support and audit British Land Property Management Teams and Residential Managing Agents across the Company's portfolio in all matters relating to health, safety and fire compliance. With the objective of managing/eliminating risks to our Staff, Tenants, Service Providers, Visitors and members of the public. To manage and "Trouble Shoot" the use of the Company's electronic management systems to ensure they are being used by said Management Team stakeholders in the intended way and are keeping the Company safe from risk and protecting its reputation, whilst achieving and maintaining British Land compliance standards/targets.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Monitoring the annual General Health and Safety and Fire Risk Assessment/ Audit programme.
  • Provide support to the Residential Management Team to the Building Safety Act & associated legislation with regards to all relevant documentation management requirements and subsequent Building Safety Regulator submissions/liaison.
  • Reviewing the Property Managers' and Engineering Managers' responses to the matters arising from the subsequent reports to ensure these are comprehensively reviewed and actioned. Monitoring actions arising from the on-line Compliance systems and reporting on progress.
  • Checking that all statutory Thorough Examinations and Testing is being carried out by the relevant stakeholders in advance of deadlines.
  • Ensuring the Company's Health and Safety Procedures Manual is updated with regards to the BSA and associated legislation; ACOPs etc i.e. annual review or as and when legislation changes etc.
  • Preparing and issuing Health and Safety Bulletins for any issues that may affect the Company and/or residents.
  • Offering a central source of support and guidance to all Managing Agents and Property Management Teams in relation to knowledge and interpretation of Health and Safety legislation and Codes of Practice; keeping abreast of both proposed and actual changes to such legislation.
  • Assisting with general guidance, as required, with all Managing Agents / Property Management Teams in the preparation of specific risk assessments to cover specific tasks relating to aspects of their property under management.
  • Ensuring Display Screen Equipment and Manual Handling assessments are undertaken by all relevant users and that any action required is undertaken.
  • Reviewing the Health and Safety Training being provided to all levels of residential staff within the Company and ensure managing agents carry out similar reviews periodically.
  • Ensuring accident investigations are conducted and submitted to British Land by relevant MA stakeholders and providing guidance in the proper reporting of same. Gathering accident/ "near miss" statistics for review by the Health and Safety Committee and for monthly / quarterly reporting purposes.
  • Producing Monthly and Quarterly Reports.
  • Reviewing all reported accidents from the Property Management Teams and ensuring that they are correctly investigated in-line with Company Procedures.
  • Reporting on the progress of all personal injury insurance claims.
  • Carrying out annual in-house Audits on the properties in accordance with the Company's Statutory requirements
  • Testing and "Trouble Shooting" the use of the Company's electronic management systems on to ensure they are being correctly and diligently used by the Property Management and Managing Agent Teams as intended. Guiding and helping those Teams who need to improve their use of any of the systems and identifying to the individual system sponsors any recommended improvements to the systems for their consideration.
  • Undertaking Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans for those individuals requiring them.
  • Reviewing Residential/British Lands' Exemplar Risk Assessments to ensure that they're suitable and sufficient in detail to provide support to Managing Agents and ensuring that bespoke RA's are in place.
  • Inducting all new British Lands' residential employees to the Company's Health and Safety requirements.
ABOUT YOU

Essential:
  • NEBOSH General Certificate in Health and Safety - ideally NEBOSH Diploma
  • Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Forms and Co Pilot.
  • Experience in residential (HRB) management; Building Safety Act; and associated legislation.
Desirable:
  • Appreciation of Building Regulations
  • Asbestos Management
  • Membership of IOSH; CIOB: RICs; IFSM and/or IFE
  • Structural surveying
  • Fire Engineering
Knowledge of:
  • Health and Safety legislation
  • Building Safety Act - residential (HRB) H&S management; BSR HRB registration; Mandatory Occurrence Reporting; Resident Engagement Strategy; Structural Survey/FRAEW management; Building Safety Case management; Gateway and digital building information requirements.
  • Policy development, service improvement and stakeholder engagement
  • Regulatory Reform Order 2005
  • CDM Regulations
Experience of:
  • Accident investigation
  • Risk Assessment
  • Auditing Managed Sites
  • Training others
  • Water Treatment
  • Working with enforcement authorities
Behavioural Competencies:
  • Business Alignment
  • Professional Integrity
  • Unrivalled Service Excellence
  • Effective Communication
  • Commercial Awareness
  • Customer Focus
  • Results Orientated
  • Impact & Influence
  • Team Working
  • Developing Self & Others
OUR SHARED VALUESour values are what we stand for at British Land, they're not just a label on the door; they connect us every day to our vision, purpose, and strategy. They help us to promote an inclusive, positive, and collaborative culture. You can read more on our corporate website.

Bring your whole self

Listen & Understand

Smarter together

Build for the future

Deliver at pace

A REWARDING PLACE TO BE

Our People - Just ask anyone why they love working here and they will tell you it's the people. They're highly talented, passionate, and collaborative! We thank our people with rewards that feel rewarding; you can review our market leading benefits here.

OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS

If you enjoy bringing your whole self to work, share our values and are excited about our purpose we'd love to hear from you! We are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive process learn more about our selection process here.

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Please note that we endeavour to get back to all applicants within 28 days. If you haven't heard from us within this period, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.