Group Safety & Compliance Director in Leicester

Bellrock is the trusted challenger in UK property services. Driven by insights, powered by technology, and delivered by talented people, we are redefining how real estate is managed. Since 2003, our people-first and technology-led approach has helped organisations across the UK transform their estates into high-performance, sustainable environments. Through our integrated service models spanning Technologies, Consulting, Critical Engineering & Jordon, and Intelligent Asset Care, we deliver compliance, quality, and operational excellence while reducing cost and carbon impact.

The Group Safety and Compliance Director provides strategic leadership and authoritative governance across all aspects of Health, Safety, Environment, Quality and Statutory Compliance within Bellrock. The role ensures that Group-wide frameworks, policies, standards and assurance systems are coherent, well governed and consistently applied across all business units and service lines.

This position carries Group responsibility for safety, statutory compliance strategy, governance, oversight of legislative adherence, internal assurance, and coordination of Authorised Engineer/Authorised Person arrangements. Working closely with divisional compliance and safety leads, the postholder sets the organisational direction, provides Group-level scrutiny, and ensures that Bellrock operates safely, efficiently and lawfully in all client environments. The role strengthens Bellrock’s reputation as a responsible partner by ensuring effective controls, transparent reporting, reduced organisational risk and a confident compliance culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Set the Bellrock strategy for safety, statutory compliance, environment and quality, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities, client obligations and regulatory expectations.
• Governance, Policy and Standards: Design, maintain and continuously improve the Group compliance governance model, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities and escalation processes across divisions and service lines.
• Statutory Compliance Oversight: Provide central leadership and technical direction for all statutory compliance domains, including but not limited to building safety, electrical safety, gas and pressure systems, water hygiene, lifting equipment, fire safety and environmental compliance.
• Group Coordination and Divisional Liaison: Work in partnership with divisional compliance and safety leads who hold local accountability for planned and reactive statutory compliance delivery.
• Compliance Auditing and Assurance: Lead the Group’s internal audit and assurance framework for safety and statutory compliance, including thematic reviews, technical audits and deep-dive investigations.
• AE/AP Coordination and Technical Governance: Oversee Group arrangements for Authorised Engineers and Authorised Persons across all applicable disciplines.
• Performance, Reporting and KPIs: Define the Group compliance performance framework, including leading and lagging indicators, risk thresholds and reporting requirements.
• Incident Management and Learning: Provide oversight of significant incidents, ensuring that investigations, root cause analysis and corrective actions are thorough, timely and preventative.
• Culture and Engagement: Shape a positive, proactive and accountable safety and compliance culture across all levels of the organisation.
• Leadership of the Group Safety and Compliance Function: Lead the Group team of safety, quality, technical and compliance specialists, ensuring professional capability, resilience and appropriate structure.

What does it take?

• Substantial technical background in hard services, engineering maintenance and building services compliance.
• Chartered Engineer status (CEng) or working towards it, through a recognised professional body such as the IET, IMechE or CIBSE.
• Comprehensive understanding of engineering legislation, technical standards and statutory regimes.
• Strong working knowledge of national maintenance and engineering standards.
• Proven experience overseeing complex engineering compliance arrangements.
• Demonstrable capability to evaluate engineering risks and make authoritative decisions on safety, statutory compliance and asset integrity at Group level.

Your core qualities and attributes:

• Strategic thinker able to translate policy into operational realities.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all organisational levels.
• Confident, credible leader with a proactive and pragmatic approach.
• High integrity and a strong sense of personal accountability.
• Able to balance commercial, operational and compliance priorities.
• Skilled communicator capable of simplifying complexity for diverse audiences.

Working arrangements: We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow.

What can we offer you? Upon joining Bellrock, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package including: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you, salary exchange pension scheme, life cover, paid sick leave, health assured employee assistance and wellness program, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, salary sacrifice schemes, private medical insurance, holiday purchase scheme, offers and discount scheme, healthcare cashplan, motor save scheme, refer a friend, lift share, virtual GP.

We’ve always encouraged new and different perspectives - and that also means making ours a workplace that encourages diverse and unique voices. Where everyone feels welcome, included, and supported to be themselves and achieve more.

Ready to start shining? Our people are our passion, so we’re all about helping them to shine. That means putting everything in place for you to have a rewarding career with us.

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