Building Safety Manager

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The role

Building Safety Manager

£60,192 - £63,360

About Us

MTVH is committed to providing decent, safe and dry homes for our residents. We own and manage more than 57,000 homes across the UK and we have a large and diverse portfolio of buildings in which we are seeking to lead the way in building safety and compliance. We are investing in building information to create the most modern, accurate and safe housing portfolio in the country.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

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

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include:

1. 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year.
2. 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities.
3. An additional 'Beliefs day' once a year to have an extra day off.
4. Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave.
5. Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%.
6. Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year.
7. Life assurance cover 3 x your salary.
8. Cycle2work scheme.
9. Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department.
10. Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members to.
11. Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season ticket loan.
12. Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform.
13. Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues.
14. Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support.
15. 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 others' 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.