Job Title: Building Safety Manager
Salary: £53,283 - £56,082
Location: The Johnson Building, Farringdon, EC1N 8JS. This role is also eligible for our smarter working policy
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK`s leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 58,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, the East Midlands, Southern and the East of England
About the Role:
We are looking to recruit additional Building Safety Managers as part of a new team to assist with further developing our Building Safety Management systems (BSMs) and safety regime to deliver real improvements in customer safety & engagement.
You will take all reasonable steps to prevent any building safety incidents and reduce the severity of an incident, should one occur. You will be inquisitive in approach and will use data, information, site surveys, feedback & insight from customers to anticipate where issues may be present and take actions to mitigate individual issues and improved systems of working to mitigate repeat issues. You will review, instigate and record quality assurance interventions in order to build evidence to support our BSMs and production of building safety cases.
What you will need to Succeed:
The successful candidate will have a strong technical background with a clear understanding of the Building Safety Act, Building Regulations and British Standards with experience gained in housing and property.
You will be a key contact both internally and with 3rd party free holders and managing agents to ensure that the occupants of our building are safe and feel safe. So great project management and interpersonal skills is essential. You will be working as part of team of specialists, where customer focus, competence, cultural change, collaboration and information sharing and systems working are essential.
Due to the nature of this role a full driving licence is required and access to transport.
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
* 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
* 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
* An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
* Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
* Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
* Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
* Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
* Cycle2work scheme
* Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
* Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
* Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
* Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
* Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
* Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
* Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
* Gender
* Ethnicity
* LGBTQ+
* Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.