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Director of Building Safety

Onward Homes

Manchester

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GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Onward Homes is seeking a Director of Building Safety to minimize risks across its property portfolio while ensuring compliance with statutory obligations. This role involves strategic planning, facilities management, and leadership of multi-disciplinary teams, all aimed at delivering exceptional service to customers and stakeholders.

Benefits

32 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Car allowance

Pension scheme with matched contributions

Flexible working environment

Simply Health cash plan

Paid leave for absence

Access to discounts and cash back offers

Career development support

Qualifications

Considerable experience in delivering building safety in a diverse property portfolio.
Experience managing facilities and building safety in a large housing portfolio.
Proven experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain a strategic approach to Building Safety.
Create a long-term investment plan for managing building safety risk.
Manage budgets and resources to meet performance targets.

Skills

Building Safety Management

Facilities Management

Compliance Issues

Risk Management

Data Interpretation

Leadership

Partnership Development

Education

MRICS, CIOB, CENG or equivalent

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We offer a highly competitive salary plus car allowance for this role.
32 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Opportunity to further increase annual leave through the holiday purchase scheme.
Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.

What You Can Expect From Us

We offer a highly competitive salary plus car allowance for this role.
32 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Opportunity to further increase annual leave through the holiday purchase scheme.
Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.

Purpose Of The Role:

Purpose of role:

To ensure Onward minimises risk across its property portfolio and operations, while meeting all statutory and legal obligations related to building safety and landlord compliance. This role also supports the effective management of our corporate estate and complex buildings, always keeping our customers and colleagues at the heart of what we do.

Responsibilities

Building Safety

Develop and maintain a strategic approach to Building Safety and compliance for our property portfolio that will ensure we minimise risk, and are compliant with our statutory and legal obligations.

Portfolio Management

Develop a longer term investment plan that will ensure that building safety risk is managed and provide a key input into investment decisions on which properties we invest in or dispose of

Facilities Management

Develop a holistic approach to the facilities management of our corporate estate, complex buildings and commercial assets investment to ensure that they operate effectively for our customers and clients

Property and Service Standards

In collaboration with colleagues develop in conjunction with colleagues our customers an affordable Onward Homes Standard that will underpin our approach to our property assets and exceed our regulatory obligations. Deliver quality customer focused services for building safety

Ingenuity and Forward Thinking

Ensure a continued approach to ingenuity and the use of technology new products and systems that will improve our customers homes.

Management, Leadership and Culture Change

Manage the budgets, resources and priorities of the team ensuring effective and efficient use of resources to deliver agreed performance targets and customer satisfaction. Drive culture change across the organisation based on core values.

Partnership Working

Identify, build, and develop an extensive network of external partnerships to ensure that the interests of the organisation are represented. Be an ambassador for the organisation and an advocate for customers.

Essential

Skills and experience

Considerable experience in the delivery of building safety in a diverse property portfolio
Considerable experience of managing facilities and building safety in a large housing portfolio with demonstrable commitment to deliver exceptional customer service
Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams to a high level of performance
Proven experience of effectively commissioning and managing contractors and consultants
Sound understanding of compliance issues and risk management approaches.
Good commercial understanding of the housing sector and the key development issues for social housing providers
Ability to interpret complex data and using to inform business decisions
Ability to work and influence external partners at a senior level

Essential:

Qualifications

Relevant qualification in a property related field e.g. MRICS, CIOB, CENG or equivalent

About Onward

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across in 52 neighbourhoods across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.

If candidates have any questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on HumanResourcesTeam@onward.co.uk and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Director

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
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