Senior Property Safety Officer

We are building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing. We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes. If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

The purpose of this role is to work in Property Safety, to plan and deliver programmes of work related to the functions held (e.g. Fire, asbestos, electrical, lifts, water safety etc.) and to ensure Orbit has robust and auditable evidence of compliance with relevant legislation and company KPIs. Most important to this role is to apply the Plan, Do, Check, Act way of working to everything our team does to drive our safety culture. This role will focus primarily on managing and updating the safety case files and reports, ensuring we keep the Golden thread of information and supporting our requirements for the Fire Safety Act.

This role is part of Property where you’ll help us to lead the way investing and maintaining 46,000 homes.

What you’ll achieve as Senior Property Safety Officer

• To ensure communication between various Orbit Departments and contractors results in a joined up approach to delivering legal compliance to minimise the risk to customers, colleagues and contractors.
• To conduct root and branch investigations into serious health and safety breaches to identify lessons to be learned and to assess the potential safety and legal ramifications of any failure.
• To fully investigate compliance related queries and provide audit trail of these investigations.
• To update, maintain & gather information relating to building safety case & files.
• To support on the Golden Thread of Information.
• To monitor overall contract performance (through agreed KPIs and PIs) and take corrective action where necessary.
• To ensure that customers are kept informed where necessary of serious health and safety risks and initiatives.
• To support the Property Safety Managers to ensure that services are delivered efficiently and to a high standard, monitoring contract performances.
• Controlling survey and/or servicing programmes for compliance functions and ensuring quality of surveys provided by relevant service providers.

What you’ll bring to the Senior Property Safety Officer role

• Experience of Property Safety/Compliance related functions in relation to a housing landlord.
• City and guilds or higher qualification in compliance subject or extensive demonstrable experience in delivering compliance functions for a Landlord.
• Experience of improving KPI performance in a compliance related field.
• Substantial experience of managing large contracts based upon high volume, low unit value.
• Experience of implementing policy and procedure towards preventing health and safety incidents.

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense. Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us:

• A rewarding experience that works for you. We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.
• A place to progress. From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.
• A purpose to feel proud of. We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair: Online application, Interview(s), Decision and offer. We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.