Compliance and Building Safety Manager

Suffolk County Council; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Suffolk County Council is seeking a Compliance and Building Safety Manager to oversee compliance standards for its housing stock. This role involves leading a growing team, ensuring safety standards, and fostering continuous improvement while reporting on all compliance-related activities. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience and a degree qualification.

Qualifications

• Experience in a comparable environment.
• Experience of managing building safety and compliance.
• Experience of business planning and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Ensure and report on compliance across all housing stock.
• Lead the Compliance Team, including recruitment and development.
• Prepare reports and give technical compliance advice.

Skills

Compliance management

Leadership

Building safety

Change management

Education

Degree qualification

Membership of a relevant professional organization

Job description

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Job Description

• Ipswich Borough Council
• Address: 15 - 17 Russell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 2DE
• Salary: £45,718 - £47,754 per annum
• Hours: 37 hours per week
• Contract: Permanent, required as soon as possible
• Reference: 0246

The Maintenance and Contracts service spends circa. £25 million annually repairing, maintaining and improving a retained housing stock of approximately 7500 properties and 15 sheltered schemes to our local "Ipswich Standard". The council takes a holistic approach to building safety and stock management and has one seamless service that is now responsible for everything in connection with the asset management of that stock; from initial design to completing works on site on a right first-time basis using our own directly employed trade teams.

Compliance and Building Safety Manager will be a senior management post within the Maintenance and Contracts (Housing) service of Ipswich Borough Council, dedicated to continuous improvement, efficient services and improving housing safety and standards for our customers. Building Safety and Compliance is at the top of the council's priorities. Most of the compliance related contracts are managed by a number of Surveyors and Contract Managers, so your role would largely be working alongside these Officers and reporting on the compliance as a whole, although the intention is to grow the Compliance team, and this position will be the lead Manager of that team.

Housing is a flagship service of Ipswich Borough Council, and it is a service that is vital for our tenants and very much in the public eye - as you would expect with such a range of work. Our employees and appointed contractors do everything from day-to-day repairs, refurbishing properties whilst void, disabled adaptations, major regeneration, planned and capital improvement schemes as well as providing a Community Caretaking Service. As you would expect we have a large vehicle fleet and work from a brand-new state of the art depot facility that includes our own stores, in house joinery workshop and waste facility.

As such, it is a great opportunity to make your mark at Ipswich and develop your career at the council. Innovation and aspiration are encouraged. The varied workload will enable you to refine your existing skills as well as develop new ones.

You will:

• be responsible for ensuring and reporting on compliance within UK Compliance Standards across all the Council's housing stock as well as our new depot facility
• work with other M and C teams, Service Areas and Stakeholders to ensure all compliance inspections are carried out at the appropriate frequencies and in a timely manner, and where necessary, ensure all rectification actions are appropriately allocated and completed to a high standard and recorded as such to maintain a compliant and safe environment for all residents and visitors
• lead the Compliance Team as it grows, including recruitment, development and performance management
• work with a team of surveying and technical officers including allocation, programming, monitoring and progressing work of the team.
• ensure quality and safety standards are met and compliance with specification
• prepare reports and give professional/technical building safety and compliance advice
• coordinate and provide training of other non-technical staff on compliance related subjects.

You will need:

• experience in a comparable environment
• a degree qualification and/or membership of a relevant professional organization
• experience of managing building safety and compliance as well as leading staff and contractors
• experience of business planning, change management and continuous improvement in a similar environment.

For more information

To find out more about us, please visit our website.

For more information about this role please contact Paul Pledger, by either calling 01473 432779 or by email at [e-mail].

If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.

How to apply

Please complete your application online by visiting our recruitment website.

Please note CVs are not accepted.

Closing date: 17 June 2025.

The selection process will be an interview in person.

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.

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