Building Safety Compliance Manager

Job Description

Overview

The London Borough of Harrow Council is seeking a Building Safety & Compliance Manager to lead on housing safety and regulatory compliance across its social housing portfolio. This pivotal role will act as the Council’s primary point of contact for all matters relating to building safety, housing compliance, and health and safety, providing expert technical advice, guidance and leadership to a wide range of stakeholders, including residents, elected members, senior officers and colleagues across the organisation. The postholder will ensure that clear, consistent and informed advice is delivered, supporting a proactive and compliant approach to both general safety and fire safety requirements.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that effective processes and best practice are in place for the procurement and management of repairs contracts within statutory compliance areas, ensuring value for money and adherence to all relevant legislation and standards. They will lead and manage the Health and Safety Team, ensuring that resources are effectively utilised to reduce risk and safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of employees, residents, service users, contractors and all others affected by the Council’s activities. This includes driving a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that risks are appropriately identified, assessed and mitigated, and that compliance is consistently maintained.
About You

The successful candidate will have:

• In line with the new Competence and Conduct Standard set by the Regulator of Social Housing, all managers will be required to undertake professional training and qualifications in line with the sector’s professionalisation agenda, and all staff will be encouraged and supported to undertake relevant training.
• Knowledge of relevant codes and guidance, and practical control of sites and the work that takes place on them, buildings under construction or during occupation
• Ability to deal with identifying issues in respect of property management, safety management (structural, fire or general health and safety), dealing with residents, managing contractors, balancing deadlines and workloads, adapting to changing legislative or operational climates, negotiating, training and persuading, and generally being able to practically and pragmatically manage within the built environment.
• Extensive understanding of statutory regulations relating to Housing, construction and buildings.
• Ability to lead, motivate, performance manage and develop the team.
• Experience of Health and Safety management and auditing.
• Experience of Board/Committee report writing and presentation
• Analytical and logical thinking skills with the ability to operate at both a strategic and operational level.

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For more information, please refer to the Role Profile/Selection Criteria

About us

Harrow Council is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit with a range of cultures, religions and opinions that come together to produce high achieving schools and a close and friendly community. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.

Other information

Support for candidates visit:Harrow.gov.uk Our behavioural indicators roles below G11 and above G11 Here at Harrow Council, the vision is one of 'Working together to make a difference for Harrow' Please click here to view Harrow Council's benefits

Important Note

To deliver our commitment to equality of opportunity in service provision, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs at the London Borough of Harrow. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender, reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, or maternity unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification applies. As such, we value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds. For further information, please read our equality statement.

As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes reasonably adjusting the recruitment process for those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. For further information, please contact us at resourcing@harrow.gov.uk

London Borough of Harrow is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Harrow operates stringent, safer recruitment procedures.

Due to the high number of applications received for some posts, we may close vacancies before the stated closing date if sufficient applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

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