Project Manager - Structural Risk Assessments

Job Introduction
As a Project Manager - Structural Risk Assessments, you'll lead the delivery of structural risk assessment programmes across our high-risk residential buildings, ensuring homes are safe and compliant with building safety requirements. Working within the Building Safety team, you'll play a critical role in managing structural safety risks, supporting the development of building safety cases, and maintaining the Golden Thread of information.
You'll be assessing the structural safety of our high rise residential buildings, helping residents be safe and feel safe in their homes. You will ensure compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory requirements, including the Building Safety Act, Health and Safety compliance within NHGs policies and procedures, and financial regulations.

How you'll do it

• Develop and manage a programme of structural risk assessments across high-risk buildings, using asset data to prioritise activity.
• Appoint and manage structural engineers, ensuring competency, quality of outputs, and value for money.
• Review and quality-check structural risk assessments, ensuring accurate identification and management of risks.
• Manage contractor competency in line with Building Safety legislation. Monitor agreed key performance indicators (KPIs) for both contractors and consultants.
• Coordinate follow-up actions, investigations, and remedial works through to completion, working with specialist contractors where required.
• Support the development of building safety cases, contributing structural safety sections and responding to queries from the Building Safety Regulator.
• Act as a structural safety expert, providing advice across the organisation and supporting compliance with the Building Safety Act and related legislation.

The ideal candidate
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.

Essential

• Chartered Structural Engineer (MIStructE/FIStructE), or Associate Member of IStructE (AIStructE) with significant structural engineering experience and a relevant degree. Experience of working with occupied residential buildings and residential building construction documents.
• Experience of quality checking the work of structural engineers.
• Experience of contract management.
• Good understanding of the Building Safety Act 2022 and associated legislation.
• Excellent information retrieval, accuracy and information management skills.
• Experience in project management and coordination, handling multiple projects concurrently.
• Experience in structural inspections and interpreting Structural Appraisal reports.

Desirable

• Previous experience of completing structural risk assessments of residential buildings.
• Experience of responding to structural related queries from the building safety regulator within defined deadlines.
• Formal project management qualification such as APM or PRINCE2, or extensive demonstrable experience delivering and coordinating complex and large projects.

Hybrid working arrangements - at least three days a week in an office or community/site-based setting. On other days, working from home, depending on work needs.

What's in it for you?
Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply).
• Generous pension scheme.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply).
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan.
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary.

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.

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We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit:

Selection Process

• Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 24 June.

Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment.
Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview.
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via .
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.