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Role: Director of Building Safety & Compliance
Location: Manchester
Salary: £90,000 - £105,000 plus Bonus
Jackson Sims Recruitment have partnered with a leading Residential Managing Agent who are looking for a standout Building Safety leader.
This is a new role to work across the business to deliver the highest quality safety regime for both our staff and customers. The role requires you to lead on both corporate health and safety as well as property compliance functions across the Build to Rent and Residential portfolio. You will provide leadership in driving a safety culture within our business and ensure that we meet all applicable statutory requirements. Ensuring robust auditing processes are in place to assure compliance to legislative requirements including Building Safety, Fire Safety and Health & Safety legislation.
What will you do?
- Be responsible for the statutory and regulatory obligations under the Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety Act 2021 and for complying with the Building Safety Regulators requirements.
- Be accountable and drive forward a strategy for building safety compliance to ensure that our customers remain safe in their homes.
- Lead on our collaboration with internal and external stakeholders including key Clients, the Building Safety Regulator, and relevant authorities to ensure we provide safe communities
- Have a thorough understanding of all applicable statutory and regulatory obligations for building safety, fire safety and health & safety compliance
- Ensure robust monitoring and key performance indicators and quality management governance systems are in place including effective budgetary control and financial forecasting.
- Cultivate positive relationships with key stakeholders both internally and externally.
- Lead a dynamic and diverse team by being an effective coach and mentor and empowering colleagues to reach their full potential identifying skills gaps through needs analysis and providing training to nurture future talent.
- Provide leadership, direction and advice ensuring that the team is focused, motivated, and inspired to achieve objectives, and create a positive team culture, ensuring others follow the expected ways of working.
- Provide assurance to our Executive Leadership Team through comprehensive performance reporting that we are fully compliant with all statutory, regulatory, and best practice building safety requirements.
- Develop and implement strategic initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
- Embrace and champion the culture, values, and behaviours.
- Work in partnership with colleagues to develop our offer to deliver an exemplary, sector leading service with high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Keep up to date with external developments in relation to your business function.
- Conduct regular team meetings, performance reviews and training sessions to enhance individual and collective performance.
- Work in partnership with colleagues across the organisation to ensure our communities are safe, well managed and compliant.
What are we looking for?
- CMIOSH, MIFSM or AIFireE qualified and able to demonstrate competency in Building Safety
- Associate Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Desirable)
- Demonstrable experience of strategic leadership and driving transformational change within the residential property arena
- Robust practical experience of managing compliance of complex high rise buildings
- People management experience, having managed large and diverse teams
- Tremendous drive, energy, and passion for delivering high quality, professional services
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to articulate complex information to clients and colleagues.
- Positive and collaborative leadership skills, and a desire to build incredible teams and drive positive change
Jackson Sims Recruitment, specialists in Real Estate, covering Block & Estate Management, Property Management, AST, PRS, Build to Rent (BTR), Facilities Management, Concierge and Financial & Accounting Services, operating in London and throughout the UK. Should you be a candidate or client working in Real Estate, we have a multitude of recruitment services that can be tailored to you.
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