Building Safety Team Leader in Guildford

A Building Safety Team Leader is required to join our clients growing team on a full time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will bring a good understanding of Building and Fire Safety strategies and lead a highly motivated team to carry out work which is essential for the health and safety of their customers. Ideally, you will have a health and safety qualification as well as a Fire Door Inspective qualification with an understanding of risk and compliance management.

This is a hybrid role; you will mainly be based from home however will be required to carry out monthly visits to high-risk buildings which are mainly in the London area. You may also be required to travel throughout the following operating regions as required : Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.

Key responsibilities :

• Ensure an onsite presence is provided in Higher Risk Buildings, allocating responsibility as required.
• Ensure fire safety measures and controls are operating effectively on a daily basis.
• Support the Building Safety Manager with providing assurance to the business on health and safety matters. Providing robust management information and assurance where needed.
• Liaise closely with the Servicing Compliance Team to ensure daily, weekly, monthly and yearly monitoring checks are being undertaken and provide regular audit reports.
• Support the Property Services Team in ensuring effective operation of mechanical plant and equipment.
• Liaise with the Customer Voice team to develop, deliver and review the residents’ engagement strategy and communications plan for building safety.
• Ensure all checks to life safety equipment is checked in line with the Fire Safety Act and Building Safety Act.
• Respond as required to emergency situations, working flexibly to meet customer demand and seek solutions to reinstate services and minimise inconvenience to some of our most vulnerable customers.
• Involve residents in service monitoring and be proactive in anticipating and resolving issues.
• Work with front-line colleagues to deliver training and familiarisation of building safety awareness and terminology.
• Ensure that building safety cases are kept up to date.
• Be the main point of contact for building safety matters for residents (customers) and third-party stakeholders including attending building safety related customer meetings, develop relationships with local stakeholders, fire and rescue services and third-party building owners and their managing agents.
• Implement effective escalation and mandatory incident management and reporting processes.
• Take ownership of any problems or complaints that may arise in relation to building safety, actively seeking solutions to problems to achieve a satisfactory outcome.

Required skills :

• Good understanding of Building and Fire Safety strategy / systems within social housing
• Ability to lead a highly motivated team carrying out work which is essential to the health and safety of our customers.
• Experience of Risk and Compliance Management
• Fire Door inspection qualification desirable
• Health and Safety qualification desirable
• Ability to manage data and keep accurate timely records of activities and outcomes