Building Safety Surveyor / Project Manager

Building Safety Surveyor / Project Manager

Salary: £36,905 – 41,999

Location: Coventry, Birmingham and covering our stock (Hybrid Working)

Permanent, Full Time – Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week

We are brave, we are ambitious, we are honest, and we are Citizen!

Reporting to the Building Safety Contracts Manager, you will play a vital role in supporting the site management of a variety of projects through legislative and statutory compliance contracts, particularly focused on fire door replacements and managing a multimillion-pound budgets and programme of works to our residential dwellings across the West Midlands, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.

In housing you can make a real difference, the role of Building Safety Surveyor will involve:

• Providing clear and effective management of site works
• Ensuring compliance with regulation and legislation applicable to the organisation’s residential stock
• Supporting the procurement, delivery, and management of robust servicing, maintenance, and repair contracts
• Supporting the management of contracts and contractors for all aspects of building safety
• Supporting the development of policies and procedures relating to building safety
• Acting as the accountable person for the successful installation of building materials/ works to comply with Fire Safety & Building Regulations

As Building Safety Surveyor, we need you to have:

• Detailed knowledge of Fire regulation and Building Control regulations associated with residential accommodation and social housing.
• Detailed knowledge of Safety legislation and best practice associated with residential accommodation and social housing.

We would be really excited if you have:

• Attainment of a Degree at 2:2 level or above in a building related subject and relevant experience in a similar role.
• OR HNC/HND pass in a building-related subject and relevant experience in a similar role.
• OR City & Guilds qualification in relevant subject and relevant experience in a similar role.
• Practical experience and theoretical knowledge of the application of fire safety order regulation – i.e., door inspections and remedial work required to close FRA actions.
• Experience in managing contractors delivering technical work to housing stock
• Knowledge of managing risk assessment and safety inspection processes and procedures across the housing stock.
• Experience of working as part of a team and delivering efficiencies through effective use of new technology and systems/processes.

Our people are everything and we offer:

• Opportunities for salary progression, which is directly linked to performance reviews
• IT equipment to allow some optional home working
• ‘Live work better’ scheme which actively encourages work-life balance
• Annual leave starts at 25 days per year, increasing with length of service
• Enhanced family leave
• Company Pension – Citizen match up to 10%
• If part of the pension scheme you are entitled to Life cover (three times your annual salary)
• Organisational Sick Pay (benefit increases with length of service)
• EAP – a 24/7 service which gives free, confidential advice and support on a range of issues including telephone counselling
• Medicash scheme -which includes GP Access, digital Physiotherapy app, retail vouchers and discounts, discounted gym memberships and more!
• Recognition through our Employee Excellence Awards
• Representation opportunities on our Staff Consultative Forum
• Access to Citizen’s Wellbeing platform
• Employee Excellence Awards (winners receive extra days annual leave that year)
• Occupational Health
• We believe everyone has something to give and encourage everyone to be the best they can be to reach their full potential with extensive learning and development opportunities and Study Leave

Here at Citizen, our purpose is to provide homes that are a foundation for life.

With over fifty years of experience, we have grown to be one of the UK’s most trusted social housing providers, Citizen owns and manages 30,000 homes for diverse communities across the West Midlands, from urban tower blocks to rural villages and towns.

There are some fundamental challenges people in our communities’ face, and we want to be an organisation which can help them deal with these. So, we are working to solve some of the most pressing issues around housing and homelessness.

We adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding to ensure everyone accessing our services can do so without fear of harm, abuse or neglect.

We adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding to ensure everyone accessing our services can do so without fear of harm, abuse or neglect. As part of our recruitment process, we carry out robust safeguarding checks.

This post is subject to a Basic DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service).

Closing date: 5th February 2024

Interview date: To be confirmed

Please note we will be reviewing applications throughout the campaign and may invite candidates to interview at any time. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published closing date should a suitable candidate be identified.