Building Safety Manager

Reed Talent Solutions are currently working with a West Yorkshire based Local Authority to recruit a Building Safety Manager on an initial three-month contract. The post-holder will will ensure that Statutory and Regulatory requirements published in the Building Safety Bill 2021, Fire Safety Act 2021 and the Social Housing White Paper 2020 are met, and best practice is considered and applied in the management and maintenance of all high-risk residential blocks.

Role Information

• 3-month contract with potential to extend
• Location: Huddersfield
• LTD Daily Rate: £450 (inside IR35)

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that all high-risk residential buildings are compliant with current legal and regulatory standards by ongoing suitable and sufficient risk assessments of each building, the hazards identified and suitable and sufficient mitigations in all cases.
• Develop policies, procedures and systems and effectively manage the "goldenthread" of building data required to provide `fit for purpose` Building Safety Case Reports.
• Ensure that all buildings are fit to occupy in line with the Building Safety Regulators Requirements
• Support the organisation to deliver investment and remediation work and the programmes are clearly communicate to tenants and residents to avoid delays in delivery and disruption to households
• Work effectively with colleagues to establish robust and reliable compliance reporting across all areas of risk
• Advise the Building Safety Assurance Board and the Accountable Person of any breaches of the required standards.
• Develop and deliver in collaboration with other teams, the Council’s Fire Safety Management Plan, and related fire strategies
• Ensure that day to day responses to any risks in high-risk buildings are dealt with in a timely and effective way, collaborating across teams to ensure this.
• Develop a Resident Engagement Plan for each high risk building that is tailored to the needs of the tenants and residents.
• Work with the tenant involvement team to ensure effective implementation of the Plan.
• Ensure that the building is managed in a way that meets the requirements of the Building Safety Case ensuring that any risks and avoidance of major incidents are managed in an effective way.
• Ensure that any reporting to the Building Safety Regulator is done in line with statutory requirements including any Mandatory Incident Reporting.
• Ensure that professional knowledge of all areas relevant to the responsibilities are kept up to date (supported by a bespoke Training Plan).
• Ensure that complaints handling, monitoring, and learning is built into the Resident Engagement Plan.
• Lead, motivate and engage with direct and indirect teams to ensure the delivery of a high quality service, developing and implementing operational objectives including key performance indicators, to underpin the Fire Safety Management Plan and the Council’s overall strategic objectives.

Essential Criteria

• At least five years relevant management level knowledge and experience of Fire & Building / Structural Safety related to Social Housing, the Fire Safety Order 2005 Amended (RRO) and Building Safety Bill as well as related statutory regulations, British Standards, and sector best practice
• Detailed and current knowledge of the built environment
• Current knowledge of Health and Safety, Equality and Diversity, Safeguarding legislation in relation to the role