Health & Safety Manager

Ballymore Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent property development company in Greater London seeks a Health & Safety Manager to coordinate safety initiatives across multiple properties. The role requires strong auditing and reporting skills, with responsibilities including conducting risk assessments, performing on-site inspections, and developing safety strategies. Candidates must possess over 5 years of relevant experience and hold Chartered Health and Safety status. This is a unique opportunity within an innovative firm recognized for its dynamic approach to property management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in health and safety management.
• Proven expertise in conducting risk assessments and audits.
• Strong technical understanding of high-rise residential building operations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate all fire, health, and safety efforts across multiple properties.
• Conduct quarterly on-site audits and prepare detailed reports.
• Plan and organize the risk assessment program for various assessments.

Skills

Risk assessments

Auditing skills

Technical knowledge of high-rise buildings

Reporting skills

Strategic development

Education

Chartered Health and Safety (CMIOSH)

Job description

• Serve as the primary coordinator for fire, health, and safety across all properties.
• Conduct on-site audits every quarter for each property, covering a checklist that includes Health & Safety documentation and Standard Operating Procedures utilising: Vantify Risk Manager Incident reporting system Internally documented procedures
• Carry out physical inspection of the property, including controlled and high-risk areas
• Interview key team members to establish compliance with procedures
• Prepare technical reports on findings
• Maintain tracker documentation on our internal software and excel.
• "Stress Test" exercises to test emergency preparedness of property management teams.
• Attend sites following any incidents in order to carry out immediate mitigations and conduct an investigation. Risk Assessments
• Plan and organise the risk assessment programme, which includes selecting providers for all risks assessments, and ensuring that the providers carry out and document these fully for, Fire Risk Assessment, Health and Safety, Water Hygiene, Leisure facilities Risk Assessment & Play Equipment Risk Assessment
• Generally these are to be completed annually on each building. The Health and Safety Manager will carry out the Fire and Health and Safety Risk assessments themselves in two out of every three years.
• A key part of the will involve following-up with the risk assessment providers to ensure the risk assessments are complete and all actions are recorded on the risk management system. This includes following-up with the Property management personnel to ensure they deal with the findings of the risk assessments. Accidents, Incident and Near Misses
• The company operates a system of reporting for accidents, incidents and near misses. The candidate will be required to:
• Attend serious incidents in order to advise on mitigations (this can include out of hours response).
• Strategic work
• The Health and Safety Manager will Develop and contribute to relevant business strategies.
• Serve as the first point of contact for Health and Safety matters. Contribute to innovation.
• Assist in dealing with enforcing authorities. Chartered Health and Safety (CMIOSH)
• Have 5+ years experience in carrying out risk assessments.
• Possess technical knowledge of the operation of high rise residential buildings.
• Possess strong auditing and reporting skills at a senior level, producing high quality technical reports. Ballymore is a family owned business, with over 40 years in establishment - we are remarked as an innovative and dynamic property developer citing over 80 awards. At present, we’re managing 11,000 homes across 12 luxury residential developments in London and are in search of a Health & Safety Manager to join us at Head Office in contributing to our vision.