Buildings Safety Manager -Supported Housing

Your new company

Your new company is a leading London based charity that provides support and housing for thousands of vulnerable people each year.

The aim for this organisation is to positively impact lives and communities through positive reinforcement and housing support aimed to improve the lives of children, young people, and adults facing or experiencing homelessness.

A substantial part of sustaining the support and work that the charity carry out, is by ensuring provided accommodation is safe and habitable for all tenants, and that the provided services meet expectations set by the charity.

The charity is therefore looking to hire a Buildings Safety Manager from a surveying or property management background to ensure that accommodation is maintained to regulations and to the charity's own standards of quality.


Your new role

You will be responsible for 10 sheltered housing blocks throughout Greater London, as well as 30 individual units of scattered stock. You will oversee planned and reactive maintenance as well as Health & Safety for the full property portfolio.

Managing a service delivery team, you will lead them in maintaining and improving the standards of service provided, ensuring building management is contractually compliant.

This will be achieved through maintaining regular checks for Health & Safety and Fire Safety, ensuring that records are kept up to date, and producing planned maintenance programmes in-line with budgets centring around the requirements and requests of the charity's customers.

You will also provide an effective and efficient reactive maintenance service through strong communication with service delivery, concierge staff and customers.

You will line manage a team, setting performance targets and monitoring KPIs, communicating with them regularly and monitoring performance through one-to-one reviews.

You will plan manageable workloads for each team member and provide induction and development training and plans to improve them as team members You will participate in the annual budget preparation, manage and monitor performance against budget and identify and implement initiatives to manage costs ensuring that Facilities stay within budget, making efficiency savings as required.


What you'll need to succeed

In order to succeed in this role, you will need prior experience managing buildings, preferable from a housing association or Housing Charity, as you will need a strong understanding of customers' needs and how to manage their expectations and concerns, as seeing situations from tenants' point of view is paramount to the success of service delivery within the charity.

You will need a strong knowledge of building regulations relating to social housing, as well as Fire Risk Assessments and Health & Safety standards within the properties.

You will need to be NEBOSH certified. You will ideally come from a building surveying or property maintenance background as you will need to be able to successfully manage capital works projects relating to refurbishments, repairs or upgrades to accommodation.

Your key areas of focus will be health and safety, equality and diversity and customer service excellence.


What you'll get in return

In return for your hard work and commitment you will receive an annual salary, currently benchmarked at £35K Per Annum.

You will benefit from flexible working in this role, with core hours between 10.00 and 16.00 Monday to Friday.

You will receive an annual holiday allowance of 25 days (plus 8 bank holidays) increasing by one day per year of service (up to a total of 30).

You will receive a company pension plan which starts at 5% employer contribution, increasing to 8% if promoted to a senior manager level.

In addition to the above, the charity offers a comprehensive package which includes healthcare plans, season ticket loans, cycle to work schemes, and more.


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