Building Safety Manager

Metropolitan Housing Trust; Alton; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing organization in the UK is seeking a Building Safety Manager. This role involves ensuring compliance with the Building Safety Act 2022, developing safety management systems, and fostering resident engagement. Suitable candidates will have a strong background in building safety and relevant qualifications. Excellent benefits and a hybrid working model are offered.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

Volunteering days per year

Enhanced pension with matched contributions

Health cash plan scheme

Career progression opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in delivering building safety in a residential setting.
• Detailed knowledge of the Building Safety Act 2022 and associated regulation.
• Demonstrably attentive to detail with excellent analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the building safety case and reporting systems.
• Evaluate safety using management information trackers and dashboards.
• Create excellent relationships with residents through engagement strategies.

Skills

Delivering building safety

Managing risk

Interpreting data

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Education

Relevant qualifications in building safety, fire safety, architecture, engineering or construction

Job description

Overview

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The role

Building Safety Manager

Salary: £61,697 - £64,944

The Role:

We are seeking a proactive and knowledgeable Building Safety Manager to join our existing team. We have recently appointed a new Head of Service and expanded our team to strengthen our work on building safety. You will take the lead on ensuring the buildings in your portfolio remain compliant with the Building Safety Act 2022. This is a key role that will work across the organisation to embed a strong culture of safety and regulatory excellence.

On a day to day basis you will:

• Lead on the development and maintenance of the building safety case, maintain the mandatory occurrence reporting system and review all the data on your buildings.
• Carefully maintain, update and evaluate safety in your buildings through the interrogation of management information trackers, dashboards, engagement with internal teams, external providers, consultants and engineers
• Create and maintain excellent relationships with residents through the resident engagement strategies and ensure that residents rights are protected and their voices are strongly influential in building safety

The Person:

• You will have proven experience in delivering building safety in a residential setting, managing risk, interpreting data and implementing systems to keep residents safe
• You will have a detailed knowledge of the Building Safety Act 2022 and associated regulation and legislation
• You will have relevant qualifications in building safety, fire safety, architecture, engineering or construction
• You will be demonstrably attentive to detail and have excellent analytical skills and be highly literate and numerate.

Interview date: 18th November 2025

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional 'Beliefs day' once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively 'Serving people better every day' to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other's wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we're doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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