Are you ready to play a leading role in keeping residents and communities safe?
This is your opportunity to join one of the UK’s largest and most progressive housing providers, taking on a pivotal role in delivering building safety excellence across Higher-Risk Buildings (HRBs) in London.
You’ll join a high-performing, collaborative, and people-focused Building Safety team - where every day you’ll make a visible impact ensuring residents not only are safe, but feel safe in their homes.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead the operational delivery of building safety management for your allocated portfolio of HRBs.
- Line-manage and develop a team of two Assistant Building Safety Managers - coaching, mentoring and ensuring effective delegation of inspections and data collection.
- Produce and maintain Building Safety Case Reports, Resident Engagement Plans and live Safety Case files.
- Lead on resident engagement - delivering surgeries, walkabouts, and proactive communication across your buildings.
- Collaborate closely with internal teams (Strategic Building Safety, Development, Major Works, Housing Management) to maintain a robust Golden Thread of information.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience as a Building Safety Manager, ideally within social housing or residential property.
- Strong understanding of the Building Safety Act, safety case reports, and regulatory compliance.
- Leadership and line-management experience - able to guide and motivate junior staff members
- Excellent stakeholder and resident engagement skills - clear, confident communicator.
- Level 6 qualification in Building Safety (CIOB or equivalent) preferred or currently completing.
- Professional membership with IFSM or IFE
What’s on Offer
- Salary: £60,000 - £67,000 (depending on experience)
- Outstanding pension plan (up to 12% contribution).
- Annual leave: 28 days rising to 31 with service, plus bank holidays.
- Work-life balance: 35-hour week with flexibility and hybrid working. 2 days onsite / 3 days WFH on average. 4 day working week also considered.
- Health & wellbeing: Westfield Health Cash Plan, life assurance and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Paid professional membership
- Genuine opportunities for career progression and a strong commitment to ongoing learning and development - CPD
- Lifestyle benefits: Electric car salary-sacrifice scheme, volunteering leave, and a range of employee discounts.
Why Join
- You’ll be joining a forward-thinking, people-led organisation that genuinely invests in its Building Safety professionals.
- The Building Safety team has grown rapidly - a strong, well-supported function led by managers who’ve progressed internally and actively mentor their teams.
- Clear progression routes into leadership, strategic building safety, development or compliance roles.
- You’ll be trusted to manage your own diary and workload - hybrid working and flexible hours, with the option of compressed weeks (4-day week working possible).
- A culture built on inclusion, trust and teamwork - with high morale, shared success and genuine balance between professional growth and personal wellbeing.
If you’re a confident and passionate Building Safety professional who thrives in a collaborative and progressive environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now through Sustainable Futures Group (SFG) – Global Recruitment Experts in Health, Safety and Sustainability.