Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest
Directorate: Place
Grade: PO10
Salary: £65,025-£68,439
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Working hours per week: 36
Working style: Hybrid – Working 3 days on site, 2 days work from home.
Application Deadline: 18/11/2024
Proposed Interview Date(s): TBC
Reference: 1479
About Us:
Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.
About the role:
We are currently hiring for a Building Safety Manager to join our thriving Housing service.
The Building Safety Manager position is to take responsibility for and cooperate with the Principal Responsible Person and Responsible Person/s in relation to whole building safety by coordinating and assuring all building-related activities to ensure compliance with the requirements for the Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety Act 2021, and associated statutory and internal building safety management system requirements across the Council’s housing stock. This position will coordinate access to quality information related to the development and maintenance of the Building Safety Case and Safety Case Reports and Building Assurance Certificates pertaining to high-rise buildings and facilitate appropriate opportunities to support stakeholder training needs.
Waltham Forest Council is responsible for 12,000 properties. There are 21 high rise buildings in Waltham Forest, which along with the other Building Safety Manager will form the bulk of your responsibilities.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with the Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety Act 2021, Health and Safety Regulations, and CDM (Construction Design and Management) Regulations.
- Act as the primary contact for building safety, maintaining openness and trust with residents to ensure safety.
- Lead the development and implementation of building safety strategies, including fire risk assessments and safety cases.
- Oversee contractors and ensure compliance with safe practices for maintenance and post-construction work.
- Maintain and manage the "Golden Thread" of safety information, ensuring it is up-to-date and accessible.
- Ensure all involved in building maintenance have the necessary competence and training.
- Engage and educate residents on building safety responsibilities and act on their concerns.
- Implement and manage a Mandatory Occurrence Reporting regime for building safety incidents.
- Manage resources to deliver Building Safety Cases for high-risk and complex buildings, ensuring compliance with regulations.
- Respond to emergency callouts, restoring services and supporting residents in line with business continuity plans.
Qualifications and Requirements:
To be considered for this position, you should meet the following requirements:
- Must be able to travel to sites as required.
- Physically able to access all areas e.g., climb stairs, access restricted spaces/service areas, use ladders to inspect roof/void spaces, etc.
- Be able to attend evening or weekend meetings when necessary and arrange for appropriate out-of-hours and emergency responses
- Working knowledge of the relevant Building Safety Legislation (Building Safety Act, Fire Safety Act, Duty of Care).
- Working knowledge relating to managing the delivery of building safety compliance or the built environment.
- Relevant Asset Management, Construction and/or Fire Safety qualifications (Degree or diploma in construction or fire safety) or equivalent.
- Current professional membership e.g., RICS, IFE, IFSM, IOSH, IIRSM, CQI, etc. or currently working towards attaining.
- A good level of IT literacy.
Terms and conditions:
The below terms and conditions apply to this role:
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks.
Satisfactory declaration of interest.
As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.
For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Dragana Gvozdic-Groza, Head of Building Safety Compliance at dragana.gvozdic-groza@walthamforest.gov.uk.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.
The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.
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