Assistant Building Safety Manager in Stratford-upon-Avon

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £37,451 - £41,045 pa depending on experience plus Essential Car User Allowance of £1,300 per annum

Grade: 7

Reporting Office: Stratford, London - agile working (home, office and site combined)

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 24th August 2026 at 11pm

Interview Dates: W/C 1st September 2026 via MS Teams

Benefits include:

• Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution)
• 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays
• Westfield Health Cash Plan
• Non-contributory life assurance
• Up to 21 hours volunteering paid days
• Lifestyle benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme

Join our Building Safety Team at L&Q:

L&Q is in the process of developing our Operational Building Safety Team within the Property Services Directorate. We are pleased to open the opportunity to join the team in the role of Assistant Building Safety Manager. The Assistant Building Safety Manager will support the Building Safety Managers achieving building safety compliance. The role works in close collaboration with Lead Building Safety Managers, Head of Service, and Director of Building Compliance & Engagement, alongside the Strategic Building Safety Team.

As an Assistant Building Safety Manager, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our buildings remain safe, compliant, and well managed. You will be required to frequently visit higher risk residential buildings, travel between sites to conduct inspections including access to plant rooms, roof areas, service risers, staircases, basements and external structures and other operational areas as required. The successful candidate will be required to access different areas of buildings and sites to verify compliance and support building safety activities in all weather conditions in order to achieve, support and maintain compliance with current building safety regulations across buildings within your portfolio. You will gather and maintain critical building information, assist in developing Building Safety Case Reports, and work closely with Building Safety Managers to identify and manage building safety risks. Through your work, you'll help maintain the highest safety standards, support regulatory compliance, and contribute to creating safe homes and communities for our residents.

We are looking for someone able to assist with promoting, communicating, and engaging across the organisation on building safety matters, including collaboration with residents, leaseholders, internal teams, and external stakeholders. Therefore, you must be confident in open and clear communication. Actively contributing on ‘whole building safety’ matters in all meetings internally and externally regarding allocated buildings.

You will be collaborating with relevant teams to raise the profile of the Building Safety Team and awareness of its objectives and activities, working closely with the Strategic Building Safety team colleagues. This role will work to ensure that fire safety and building safety activities are correctly tracked and traceable through the Golden Thread, to ensure sufficient evidence is readily available to all stakeholders.

The responsibilities will include contract management of consultants and service providers to source and for the provision of building safety information for the buildings within their remit. Supporting the Building Safety Managers in their duties to ensure that in-scope buildings within their management remit are safe to occupy, that they continue to be safe to occupy and that they comply with the Building Safety Act and other legislations and regulations, as well as taking initiatives to ensure residents also feel safe.

The Assistants will work to regularly review maintenance and testing activities and outcomes, consider all potential risks, including fire and structural matters, whilst delivering high quality building safety management in line with policy, procedures, legislation and government guidance.

Your impact in the role:

• The ability to liaise effectively with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure truly collaborative agreed approaches and outcomes.
• Experience of supporting team members to instil and promote a strong, cohesive team culture.
• Ability to support team members through periods of intense and rapid change (new policies, procedures and legislative requirements).
• High levels of computer literacy and be able input and retrieve data from a variety of computer management systems.

What you’ll bring:

• Hold or be willing to work towards a minimum of Level 4 in Building Safety.
• Housing sector knowledge & knowledge of operational building safety context.
• Possesses good working knowledge of social housing, with developing knowledge of construction, hazard identification, risk assessment, fire risks, structural risks, external wall systems, remediation processes, requirements for applying for building assessment certificates, building safety case report creation.
• Experience of collaborating with a range of stakeholders and working in a similar environment, able to develop positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, residents, non-resident leaseholders and regulatory bodies.
• Strong organisational skills, able to organise self and others including delegation of tasks.
• Positive and collaborative approach to service delivery, providing excellence in customer service in line with L&Q’s values.
• Competent in the use of relevant software platforms, e.g. Microsoft Packages, Arena/Open housing ZetaSafe, or equivalent.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of. 250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do. When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.