Building Safety Officer

Internal Role Title: Building Safety Co-Ordinator 

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday-Friday

Salary: £31,773-£39,716 per annum plus £2272 car allowance per annum (salary offered dependent on experience)

Contract: Permanent

You will manage risk-based programmes relating to specified risk areas and service contracts, including the day-to-day contract management of a number of service  contracts, completion of remedial works and working with independent consultants to ensure that statutory compliance is maintained across all assets. You will also need to have strong procurement knowledge across specifications and cost documents, as well as manage the section 20 process independently.

We support agile working, so you’ll be provided all IT equipment to work flexibly between your home and at our Dartford office. We expect the first three months of the role to be solely based at the Dartford Office.

Who are we?

Moat are one of the top 30 housing associations in England, with homes spread across London, Kent, Essex and Sussex. Our financial strength puts us in a good position to rise to challenges and plan for the future. We have just released our new corporate strategy, so it’s an exciting time to join Moat! This involves being bold and ambitious, investing in new and existing homes, putting safety and quality first. We also deliver for and with our customers through our new Customer Engagement strategy, which will help us to deliver the requirements of the Social Housing White Paper. 

We are also proud to announce that we have been awarded an accreditation for ‘The Sunday Times Best Places to Work’ 2024, based on our employee feedback.

Your key tasks will include:

• Delivering risk-based programmes of servicing and remedial works relating to specified Fire, Lifts, Asbestos, Gas, Electrical & Legionella “FLAGEL” areas and service contracts. Manage Section 20 processes when necessary.
• Managing contractors, consultants, and residents to ensure that properties are well maintained and achieve statutory compliance.
• Reporting on works progress, performance of contractors/operatives on site and the delivery of servicing regimes and programmes.
• Recording, maintaining and updating information databases with accurate records on all areas of work, adhering to latest legislation such as GDPR.
• Liaising with the Development and S&M teams to ensure that handover information for new schemes properties is received in the correct manner. Interpret the information, deliver appropriate actions and load the relevant data into the asset management database.
• Assisting in developing strategies, policies, procedures and processes for the Building Safety team.
• Taking ownership and responsibility for complaints from customers, ensuring that the customer experience is positive, professional and timely with lessons learnt identified and implemented.
• Leading on contractor finance which includes, monthly invoicing, maintaining and managing budgets.

We're looking for someone who has:

• A good standard of education, with good literacy and numeracy.
• An ability to use database systems and project management software, with practical experience of extracting data and generating reports.
• A good knowledge of construction technology and contract management, including budgets, invoicing, and performance management.
• An awareness of planned property maintenance issues.
• A general awareness of regulations relating to asbestos, health and safety (CDM), section 20 requirements, and fire, legionella, asbestos, gas, electrical and lifts, along with all service contracts.
• A good knowledge of public procurement and specifications and cost documents.
• An ability to use MS Office suite.
• An ability to extract numerical and graphical information from the internet.
• Desirable to have an awareness of key property issues in social housing.

To view the full job description, please click the link here: https://shorturl.at/wEb96

In return, you will receive:

A range of benefits. For more info, check out our employee benefits video here: Our employee benefits: what we can offer you - YouTube

Want to know more about Moat? 

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Interested in applying? We want to hear from you!

If interested, please apply by 11pm on Sunday 20 October 2024

We encourage you to apply early, as we may close the advert before this date if we receive good interest. We're looking forward to reading your application!

Please note, we will no longer be accepting CV’s as part of the recruitment process. All candidates will now submit an application form via our Career’s website.

If you require any additional adjustments to the recruitment process, please email peopleservices@moat.co.uk