Safety and Compliance Specialist

Sovereign Housing Association Limited; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing association in Basingstoke is seeking a Safety and Compliance Specialist responsible for ensuring adherence to building safety compliance. The role demands knowledge of regulatory standards and excellent communication skills. You will work alongside the Building Safety Compliance Manager to implement safety strategies and oversee data accuracy for building compliance. The position offers benefits like flexible working, medical insurance, and a competitive pension scheme.

Benefits

Discounted shopping & cycling scheme

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

3 paid wellness days per year

Company pension scheme matched up to 12%

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in working with engineering standards such as SFG20.
• Ability to protect and monitor data against misuse.
• Membership of IOSH or another professional body.

Responsibilities

• Assess changes for building safety compliance requirements.
• Define data requirements and oversee implementation.
• Monitor activities related to building safety compliance.

Skills

Compliance management experience

Knowledge of building regulations

Excellent communication skills

Experience in a regulated environment

Job description

It's an exciting time to join us to help us deliver our ambitious development programme of 25,000 new homes over the next 10 years. Sovereign Network Group (SNG) provide over 85,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England – our purpose, crystalised within our sector leading Homes and Place Standard, is to provide quality affordable homes and thriving communities over generations.

We are seeking a Safety and Compliance Specialist on all safety matters on behalf of SNG. This role will work with the Building Safety Compliance Mechanical and Electrical Manager to assess any change required across the organisation to deliver building safety compliance big 6 plus aspects aligned with the objectives and vision set out in the Building Safety and Compliance strategy and wider SNG corporate plan.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Responsible for renewables and building safety compliance big6+ areas ensuring that SNG adheres to its regulatory and legislative obligations and that the organisation receives competent advice and guidance.
• Act as a subject matter expert with responsibility of defining data requirements, policies, and standards, whilst advising and overseeing the implementation and adherence.
• Review any request changes against existing system specifications identifying potential overlap and resolving these issues.
• Overall responsibility for the data relating to big 6+ and renewable technology.
• Ensure that data and records relating to renewables and building safety compliance big6+ aspects are collated, validated, accurate and recorded into our centralised systems.
• Lead on the monitoring activities relating to renewables and building safety compliance big6+ in a transparent manner, including identifying, recording, and addressing underperformance and breaches.
• Ensure that actions from safety inspections/testing are progressed, remedied, and recorded as required.

What We're Looking For:

• Evident knowledge and experience of compliance management within the Housing Sector.
• Experience in working in a regulated environment.
• Ability to work to engineering standards such as SFG20.
• Experience in technically advising, specifying, and regulatory requirements for heating and plumbing systems as well as non-core areas.
• Knowledge and understanding of current building regulations.
• Knowledge of methods to monitor the quality of data and identify issues (e.g. reconciliations).
• Experience in protecting and monitoring data against misuse and loss.
• Experience of working to deadlines and achieving targets through own work and work driven through teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Membership of IOSH or other professional body.

What can we offer you:

• Discounted shopping & cycling scheme
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
• 3 paid wellness days per year
• Company pension scheme matched up to 12%, life cover at 4x your salary
• Flexible working - we're committed to giving people flexibility as widely as possible
• Private medical insurance, dental insurance & critical illness cover