Building Safety Manager
London Borough Of Hounslow
United Kingdom
Published 2 weeks ago
Health and safety
About us at Hounslow
We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.
About The Role
Within the Housing Planning and Economic Regeneration Division of the Council resides the Property Compliance Team. The Asset Management team analyse and validate data, create programmes and commission the Programme Delivery Team to undertake agreed programmes. Working very closely with these teams, the Property Compliance Team (consisting of Building Safety, Landlord's Compliance and Mechanical & Engineering teams) deliver the robust management of statutory compliance related activities (inspections, testing and certification).
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Compliance Team which is seeking a Building Safety Manager, to:
1. To take responsibility for co-ordination and management of all building safety matters across the Council's social housing stock to meet legislative requirements.
2. To oversee the safe management of the Council's in-scope social housing buildings.
3. To oversee the implementation of controls in respect of building safety on a day-to-day basis and effectively manage safety across the Council's social housing stock.
4. To ensure that controls are implemented in respect of all building work carried out in the social housing stock to which the role relates.
5. To engage with Programme Delivery colleagues who are responsible for managing projects and Development Team colleagues commissioning new build and pre-built additions to the Council's social housing stock.
6. To ensure the Building Safety Cases are managed and kept up to date.
7. To assist with resident engagement within high-rise and/or higher-risk building stock, particularly in ensuring that safety concerns are recorded, monitored and dealt with appropriately - and being available as a resource to attend meetings / provide clarifications.
8. To engage with internal Housing teams to ensure that roles are performed effectively in line with the Council's legislative requirements (relevant to this remit).
9. To perform any other reasonable tasks that ensure the effective management of the Council's social housing stock for which the role is responsible, to the fulfilment of our customer service objectives.
Regarding development and progression, skills and knowledge will continue to grow in this post through training, on-the-job learning, and other development initiatives that are role specific but also those supported by the Council's wider arrangements.
About The Team You'll Be Working In
This Team ensures all regulatory and legislative responsibilities for, and not limited to, gas safety, electrical safety, the management asbestos containing material, fire safety, water hygiene and legionella prevention, other associated mechanical and electrical services are adequately checked for quality standards. This Team is seeking a Building Safety manager to focus upon building safety compliance.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we'd love you to put in an application:
1. Experience and knowledge of building safety with supporting qualifications.
2. Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and with partnering contractors.
3. Working knowledge of IT based systems (particularly Word, Excel and Outlook and compliance management databases).
4. Ability to review internal processes and explore and deliver innovative solutions to improve current ways of working.
5. Customer focused approach with a helpful and cooperative attitude.
6. Ability to make site visits and travel in/around the borough when required.
Essential for the Role
Enhanced DBS check is required for the role.
Read more about the work you'll be doing in the Role profile.
Don't meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can't tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist. So, if you can do most of what we're looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: Paul.Perkins@hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 02085834118
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 30th September 2024.
We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.
About The Role
Within the Housing Planning and Economic Regeneration Division of the Council resides the Property Compliance Team. The Asset Management team analyse and validate data, create programmes and commission the Programme Delivery Team to undertake agreed programmes. Working very closely with these teams, the Property Compliance Team (consisting of Building Safety, Landlord's Compliance and Mechanical & Engineering teams) deliver the robust management of statutory compliance related activities (inspections, testing and certification).
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Compliance Team which is seeking a Building Safety Manager, to:
1. To take responsibility for co-ordination and management of all building safety matters across the Council's social housing stock to meet legislative requirements.
2. To oversee the safe management of the Council's in-scope social housing buildings.
3. To oversee the implementation of controls in respect of building safety on a day-to-day basis and effectively manage safety across the Council's social housing stock.
4. To ensure that controls are implemented in respect of all building work carried out in the social housing stock to which the role relates.
5. To engage with Programme Delivery colleagues who are responsible for managing projects and Development Team colleagues commissioning new build and pre-built additions to the Council's social housing stock.
6. To ensure the Building Safety Cases are managed and kept up to date.
7. To assist with resident engagement within high-rise and/or higher-risk building stock, particularly in ensuring that safety concerns are recorded, monitored and dealt with appropriately - and being available as a resource to attend meetings / provide clarifications.
8. To engage with internal Housing teams to ensure that roles are performed effectively in line with the Council's legislative requirements (relevant to this remit).
9. To perform any other reasonable tasks that ensure the effective management of the Council's social housing stock for which the role is responsible, to the fulfilment of our customer service objectives.
Regarding development and progression, skills and knowledge will continue to grow in this post through training, on-the-job learning, and other development initiatives that are role specific but also those supported by the Council's wider arrangements.
About The Team You'll Be Working In
This Team ensures all regulatory and legislative responsibilities for, and not limited to, gas safety, electrical safety, the management asbestos containing material, fire safety, water hygiene and legionella prevention, other associated mechanical and electrical services are adequately checked for quality standards. This Team is seeking a Building Safety manager to focus upon building safety compliance.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we'd love you to put in an application:
1. Experience and knowledge of building safety with supporting qualifications.
2. Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and with partnering contractors.
3. Working knowledge of IT based systems (particularly Word, Excel and Outlook and compliance management databases).
4. Ability to review internal processes and explore and deliver innovative solutions to improve current ways of working.
5. Customer focused approach with a helpful and cooperative attitude.
6. Ability to make site visits and travel in/around the borough when required.
Essential for the Role
Enhanced DBS check is required for the role.
Read more about the work you'll be doing in the Role profile.
Don't meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can't tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist. So, if you can do most of what we're looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: Paul.Perkins@hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 02085834118
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 30th September 2024.