Building Safety Manager

VIVID; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Performance bonus

Pension 6% match 7-10%

Life assurance 3x salary

Private medical insurance

Medicash

Enhanced parental leave

Counselling & legal support

Electric car scheme

Training & mentoring

Job summary

VIVID is seeking a Building Safety Manager to lead safety across our housing portfolio, focusing on Higher-Risk Buildings, safety cases and information governance. You will work with residents, regulators and external partners to ensure compliance and a strong safety culture.

The role requires a qualified building safety professional with knowledge of fire safety legislation and building regulations, and a track record in risk management and reporting.

Qualifications

• Qualified building safety professional with experience in building compliance, health and safety, fire safety or the built environment.
• Membership of a professional body such as IFE, RICS or IOSH is preferred.
• Experience delivering regulatory compliance across housing portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Lead on building safety across the portfolio and HRBs.
• Develop and embed safety frameworks, governance, and assurance activities.
• Engage residents, regulators and external consultants to manage risk.

Skills

Building safety leadership

Fire safety

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Education

Professional body membership: IFE/RICS/IOSH

Job description

We’re VIVID! -We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people! VIVID is a leading provider of affordable homes and housing-related services in the south of England. We provide services and support to 84,272 customers in over 38,600 homes. Our homes are available across all tenures and types, from social rent to private market sale, tailored to the needs and demands of each area.

We’re recruitingfor a Building Safety Manager specialising to join our teambased inPortsmouth. This is a full-time permanent position working 37 hours a week, with a minimum of 20% of this to be office based to promote collaboration and team working within the governance team, the company secretarial function, as well as and other colleagues across the business.

Want to know what we can offeryou?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• Annual discretionary company performance-related bonus, rewarding our collective success
• A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes

Here’s The Facts About The Role

This role plays a critical part in keeping our residents safe and ensuring we meet our legal and regulatory responsibilities. You'll provide expert leadership on building safety, helping to shape a strong safety culture and ensuring robust compliance arrangements are in place across our housing portfolio. As Building Safety Manager, you'll take ownership of the management of Higher-Risk Buildings (HRBs), Building Safety Cases, Safety Case Reports, Building Assessment Certificates, resident engagement strategies and the Golden Thread of Information. Working closely with colleagues, external consultants, regulators and residents, you'll ensure building safety risks are identified, assessed and effectively managed. Supporting the Senior Building Safety Manager, you'll help develop and embed building safety frameworks, policies, governance arrangements and assurance activities that demonstrate effective risk management and regulatory compliance. You'll also play a key role in promoting a positive building safety culture across the organisation, ensuring we continue to meet evolving legislative and regulatory expectations while protecting our residents and homes. We're looking for a qualified building safety professional with experience in building compliance, health and safety, fire safety or the built environment. You'll have a relevant qualification or equivalent experience, membership of a professional body such as IFE, RICS or IOSH, and a commitment to continuing professional development. You'll bring strong knowledge of fire safety legislation, building regulations and compliance within residential properties, along with experience of managing fire safety, compliance or asset-related projects. You'll be confident assessing risk, making sound decisions and engaging effectively with residents, colleagues and external stakeholders. You’ll have experience of working with budgets and planned outputs with the ability to produce accurate and concise reports with commentary. You’ll be a strong leader with a supportive approach who’ll champion our ‘work as one team’ ethos. You’ll establish good links with all internal teams to promote excellent service delivery and exceptional customer service also.

Travel will generally be within the Hampshire area, visiting HRB's within portfolio

Business mileage will be paid.

This is a two stage interview process, with first stage interviews taking place in our Portsmouth office on 13 November (subject to change)