Principal Manager (Compliance)
Principal Manager (Maintenance) (salary up to £55,224)
A senior post at Ipswich Borough Council; in one of its largest front line services.
The Maintenance and Contracts service spends circa. £25 million annually repairing, maintaining and improving a retained housing stock of circa 8,000 properties including 15 sheltered schemes and 4 Homeless Families Units to our local “Ipswich Standard”. The Council takes a holistic approach to stock management and has one seamless service that is responsible for everything in connection with the asset management of our homes; to ensure they remain safe and decent at all times.
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.
The Principal Manager will be one of six senior management posts within the Maintenance & Contracts service (part of the Housing directorate) dedicated to continuous improvement, efficient services and improving housing standards for our tenants.
You will be expected to head up a safety and compliance team responsible for ensuring Council homes meet all regulatory standards and tenants remain safe in their homes at all times, adopting a zero-tolerance (of failure) approach. This will include responsibility for the landlord’s ‘big 9’ compliance safety items; namely Fire, Lifts (LOLER), Emergency lighting, Alarm systems, Gas, Damp & Mould, Electrical, Asbestos and Water Safety. In addition, you will monitor hazards arising from HHSRS stock condition surveys and outcomes to ensure compliance with Awaab’s Law and Decent Homes.
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.
Specifically, this post will be responsible for all activities relating to:
- Acting as the Principal responsible Manager and lead Officer ensuring Council homes are compliant and remain safe at all times.
About You
The successful candidate will have:
- Significant experience in a comparable environment;
- A degree qualification and/or membership of a relevant professional organisation;
- Experience of managing staff and budgets;
- Experience of the regulatory requirements to maintaining safe homes for the Council’s tenants;
- Experience of business planning, change management and continuous improvement in an operational or front-line environment;
- Experience and/or qualifications in Health & Safety.
As well as a good salary, we offer a career grade average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
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.
For more information about this role please contact Kevin Oxborrow on 01473 432414 or kevin.oxborrow@ipswich.gov.uk
Salary range
- £53,051 - £55,224 per year