Building Safety Manager

VIVID Housing Ltd; Portsmouth; Presencial; GBP 55.000 - 75.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

26 days holiday + bank holidays

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension contribution (6% with 7–10% up

Life assurance 3x salary

Private medical insurance

Medicash health care plan

Enhanced parental leave pay

Counselling & legal/financial support

Electric car scheme

In-house & e-learning courses

Descripción de la vacante

VIVID Housing Ltd is recruiting a Building Safety Manager to lead all aspects of building safety and compliance across our housing portfolio. The role focuses on higher-risk buildings, safety case development, and engagement with residents, regulators and internal teams.

You will shape safety frameworks, drive governance and assurance activities, and promote a culture of continuous improvement to meet evolving regulatory expectations.

Formación

• Qualified building safety professional with experience in residential housing environments.
• Strong knowledge of fire safety legislation and building regulations.
• Experience delivering governance and assurance across safety-critical portfolios.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement with residents, regulators and internal teams.

Responsabilidades

• Provide leadership on building safety and compliance across the portfolio.
• Manage Higher-Risk Buildings (HRBs) and related safety cases and reports.
• Develop and embed safety frameworks, policies and governance arrangements.
• Promote a positive building safety culture and ensure regulatory expectations are met.

Conocimientos

Building safety

Health and safety

Fire safety

Regulatory compliance

Educación

Professional building safety certification

Descripción del empleo

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.

As this role involves travel, a full UK driving licence and access to a vehiclefor business use is a requirement.

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)